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The Ottawa Catholic School Board has announced it has secured a “historic” $117 million from the Province of Ontario for three new schools in the growing suburbs, plus an addition to an existing school, while the French-language Catholic board announced it has received funding for a high school.
The funding includes money for a Grades 7-12 high school in Fernbank in the west end, a kindergarten to Grade 6 elementary school and child-care centre in Mer Bleue in the east end and a kindergarten to Grade 6 elementary school with a child-care centre in Fernbank North. The schools have not yet been named.
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The funding will also pay for an addition to St. Philip Catholic Elementary School in Richmond.
In the past year, the Catholic board has opened two new elementary schools: St. Bernadette, an elementary school in Fernbank, and St. Juan Diego, an elementary school in Barrhaven South.
In a statement, Catholic board chair Mark Mullan said the provincial funding represented a significant investment in the future of students and communities.
“These projects address immediate needs while laying the foundation for brighter education futures across our communities,” Mullan said.
Meanwhile, the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est, the French-language Catholic board, announced that it had received funding for a new high school in Riverside South.
The new school will have a capacity of 826 students. Construction is to begin in the fall of 2025 and the school is expected to open at the start of the 2027 school year, the board said Friday.
Land for the school has already been purchased at the corner of Bobridge Avenue and Brian Good Avenue.
In a statement, the area’s trustee, Claude Lalonde, said the school community had been actively lobbying for a new school to take pressure off École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité in Riverview and École secondaire catholique Pierre-Savard in Barrhaven.
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