Riverview mayor says he supports the push for a new French school to keep up with the southeast New Brunswick town’s growing francophone population, and the school district agrees there’s a need.
Mayor says nearly 300 students travel to Moncton to attend French-language school
Hope Edmond · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 01, 2026 11:48 AM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Riverview Mayor Andrew LeBlanc says about 8.5 per cent of residents in the town of 20,000 are francophone. (Rhythm Rathi/CBC)
Riverview is hoping to get its first French school to meet the needs of the growing francophone and bilingual population in the southeast New Brunswick town.
Mayor Andrew LeBlanc says town council wrote a letter to the provincial government voicing its support for a K-8 school and calling it a priority for the town, which is across the Petitcodiac River from Moncton.
“We recognize that we want to do what we can to increase access to francophone education,” LeBlanc said in an interview Friday about the letter council announced earlier in the week.
He says about 8.5 per cent of residents in the town of about 20,000 are francophone,
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