We have anecdotal evidence about schools being closed, which was the 1960s centralization: the elimination of small schools into consolidated schools throughout the country.
I'll give you an anecdote. My wife is from Tignish, P.E.I. She did her first year of school—grade one—in a French-language school. Then the province came in and consolidated the six French-language schools in the Tignish area into none. They had to go to English-language schools. She became assimilated. Her sisters became assimilated. The entire village, called Tignish Shore, became assimilated 20 years later.
We have other examples of that throughout the country. We also have examples of schools being built, like in Chezzetcook, in Nova Scotia, where the community revitalized itself.
There are probably going to be hits and misses, but without a school and, secondarily, without early childhood development, it's doomed to failure.