Joliette Elementary School (JES) serves a widely-dispersed student population of 192 students from Kindergarten to Cycle 3; Year 2 (Level 6). The school consists of a main building, and 8 portables which contain 7 classrooms. There are ten operating classrooms, a library, a gym, a computer lab, a resource room, a staff room, a kitchen, a classroom reserved for specialists’ offices and the caretakers, two lunchrooms, an art room, and an office reserved for the CLSC nurse, the Behaviour technician and school board professionals. The front of the main building houses the principal and the school secretaries’ offices.

There are 26 staff members: 14 teachers, 8 support staff, 2 maintenance staff and 1 administrator. Complementary Educational Services are offered through the school psychologist one day per week, and the speech pathologist 1 day per month.
The classes are distributed as follows:

• Kindergarten: 2 classes
• Cycle 1; Year 1 (1 class), Year 2 (1 class);
• Cycle 2; Year 1 (1 class), Year 2 (2 classes)
• Cycle 3; Year 1 (1 class), Year 2 (1 class), Year 1 & 2 (1 class)

The Kindergarten and Cycle 1 classes are housed in the portables, and Cycles 2 and 3 are located in the main building.

The school is located in the municipality of St-Paul-de-Joliette, adjacent to Joliette. The students originate from 43 municipalities which explain why for most of our students, the social network established at school is central to their lives. JES is the only English elementary school in the Joliette area. The great majority of students are bused to school, and because the territory is so vast, some students spend over three hours traveling to and from school daily. There is a strict bus code and disrespectful behaviour is addressed immediately; the safety of the students and the driver is of the highest priority. Buses are provided by two school boards – the Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier School Board and our sister, francophone school board, La commission scolaire des Samares. There are 5 (five) transfer points where students transfer to other buses. Two bus supervisors have been assigned to two transfer points where student traffic is high so as to provide a safe and reassuring environment for our students. Out-of-zone students are accepted if class size permits and if parents accept to travel their child to and from school.

JES’s school attendance zone is delimited by the following municipalities:

NORTH: Ste-Émilie-de-l’Énergie; St-Damien; St-Charles-de-Mandeville
SOUTH: St-Sulpice; L’Assomption
EAST: St-Barthélémy
WEST: St-Calixte (excluding St-Calixte village)