The parent council at Queen Victoria Public School in Windsor is calling for repairs to the building.
Council President Robert De Verteuil says the building at 1376 Victoria Ave. is now 95-years old and could use some work. "We're in a neighbourhood that is a historic neighbourhood and it's not so much that the school was put there because of the neighbourhood, it's more that the neighbourhood grew up around that school. Architecturally it's gorgeous. You've got marble walls, you've got oak moulding, but it's old and it hasn't had any attention paid to it in decades."
"The building could use some new life" says De Verteuil. "That neighbourhood is going through regeneration where we're getting a tremendous amount of immigration. Every immigrant wave that you get, it brings new things to the community, but we need a lot. We have a school that's not accessible, for example, we've had families move away because they needed more accessibility."
The school board recently received more than $800,000 in funding to retrofit schools to be used for community hubs.