Western Approaches School Board

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Template:Infobox school district The Commission scolaire des Atterrages Occidentaux, colloquially known in English as the Western Approaches School Board, is a French-language school board in Linack, Ainin. It is one of eleven French-language school boards in the administrative region of Atterrages-Occidentaux, along with the Doval School Board, the West Marlane School Board, the Henri of Namoria School Board, the Bonséjours-Saltère School Board, the Versants-des-Monts School Board, and the 6 boards that make up the Consolidated Hartly Educational Authority. It serves a predominantly rural coastal area of the region centered around the towns of Beaufort, Saint-Martin-de-l'Église and Varcy-sur-Mer. The same area is served by the English-language Unified Southwestern School Board and the Namorese-language South Linack Namorese School Board.

The board has jurisdiction over 27 primary and 12 secondary schools, as well as 2 post-secondary institutes, and reported around 12,000 students attending its institutions, which offer a full university preparatory education from pre-primary to post-secondary.