The Centre de services scolaire du Littoral is a geographically-based school service centre in Quebec, Canada, with offices in Sept-Îles and Chevery. Situated along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the School Board territory consists of nine Anglophone villages and four Francophone villages, scattered along 460 kilometres of coastline from Kegaska to Blanc-Sablon including Port-Menier. Their respective populations vary between 100 and 1000 inhabitants. The School Board has a school enrolment of approximately 570 students annually. It offers general education services to the youth sector for pre-school, primary, and secondary levels as well as literacy and secondary general education sector to the Adult Education sector.
On April 14, 1967, the National Assembly of the Province of Québec sanctioned Bill 41, instituting the "Commission scolaire de la Côte-Nord du Golfe St-Laurent". This school board, directed by an administrator, would become responsible for education in fifteen communities. These communities spread out from Kegaska to Blanc Sablon, a territory of 460 kilometres that is not connected to the Québec Provincial road network. Bill 41, created the first "unified" school board in the Province of Québec, serving a French, English, and Native population of Catholic and Protestant religion and giving courses from Kindergarten to Secondary inclusively.
On June 18, 1975, the name of the Commission scolaire de la Côte-Nord du Golfe St-Laurent was changed by order in council for the Commission scolaire du Littoral. Prior to the creation of the district, multiple school districts from various religious orders controlled the area, and none of them offered senior high school education. The territory of Anticosti Island was added to the Commission scolaire du Littoral with Bill 48 which was passed on June 18, 1976.
Following inter-governmental agreements, the Natives acquired their school autonomy on the St. Augustine River Reservation on July 1, 1990, and on the La Romaine Reserve on July 1, 1991. However, the school board maintained services in these two communities so as to serve the non-Indian population. The School Board holds a special status considering it is managed by an administrator who replaces the school commissioners and the director general. He exercises his powers by means of ordinances, of which a copy is automatically transmitted to the Minister who decides to accept it or to reject it in whole or in part. Moreover, the Commission scolaire du Littoral is characterized by the fact that it is not classified as a linguistic school board.
School Board Logo
Orange represents the soil and its residents. Turquoise represents the sea that is omnipresent on the territory. The vertical features imitate the territory and its size. The triangle represents Anticosti Island and the motion of the waves, referring to the district's motto: "We extend the horizons of knowledge, against all winds and tides..." The whole forms an "L" for Littoral.
