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Consolidated School. Although students from Chester and New Ross make up the bulk of the student body, other communities serviced by Forest Heights include Chester Grant, Western Shore, Tancook Island, Hubbards, Fox Point, Mill Cove, and Blandford. Forest Heights is actually in Chester Grant, just past the Chester Basin/Chester Grant road signs.
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