It's not quite a one room school house but it was by no stretch of the imagination a large school with, if I recall correctly, 6 classrooms. There was no gymnasium and by the time it was replaced several temporary classrooms had been added to house it's growing student population.
Just a few short years before the school was replaced the towns student population was so low that the school division had been considering closing it's doors. Parents in the area balked saying to give it time, that the town was growing and so too would the student population. The powers that be decided to give it a few more years; in the years that followed the student population did indeed grow. A decade after the division had considered the town to small for even it's small 6 class schoolhouse the student population was practically bursting at the seams and a new much larger school was needed.
I spent two years in the new La Salle school and yes more than 20 years later in my mind it is still the new school. It no longer is and like the division who couldn't imagine needing a school in the town at all I can hardly imagine that now a second school or a junior high is needed as well.
