Queen Mary Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, is an elementary school. The school opened in 1915.
It is located at 2000 Trimble Street, at the intersection with 4th Avenue in the West Point Grey neighbourhood. As of 2009, the current school principal is Monika Sanft. The school has a population of about 450 students from grade K-7. It is also one of the three schools that host the MAC (Multi-Age Cluster) classes in the Vancouver School District. The other schools with MAC classes in the Vancouver School Board are Tecumseh Elementary and General Gordon Elementary School.
Queen Mary Elementary School is located close to the beach and is upon a hill. It has two buildings, a gravel field and two playgrounds (one for upper school and one for lower school.) The main red building was a former Town Hall for the city of Vancouver.
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