Large sections of Rainbow Park — an area built to provide recreation space and a playground for people living in Saint John's south end, an area with high levels of poverty — will be removed to build a new school.

When the new school is built, there will still be a park space, but it will be smaller and with restrictions on local use. 

The new school, which will educate about 450 students, is being built to replace the Prince Charles and St. John the Baptist/King Edward schools.

St. John the Bapti…