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The French Catholic school board serving Eastern Ontario has agreed to open a new school next fall in the former Kemptville Agricultural Collage.
The Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est will start with grades 1 to 9 next September, and add one grade a year until it has a full high school.
The new school will be a second “pavilion” of the existing École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys, which is in Merrickville. The Merrickville site will stay open, but it doesn’t have room to provide a high school, and the Kemptville site does.
The school currently has about 150 students. The board says there has been a growing demand for a French school in Kemptville.
It is also considering adding an early childhood centre on campus.
Kemptville College has stood empty since the University of Guelph decided to close it, along with its campus in Alfred, to save costs. It was a decision that upset many in the community.
“Kemptville parents asked us to open a secondary school in 2013, and we are pleased to have found a solution whereby their children can benefit from a French Catholic education in their own community at an enchanting site that will offer numerous educational possibilities when school starts again in the fall of 2016,” says a statement from the board chair, Johanne Lacombe.
The board’s director of education, Réjean Sirois, called the expansion “a community project that will revitalize the Kemptville College campus and help ensure the vitality of an institution that is so very important to the local economy.
“I am already dreaming about all the programs that could be set up here, as well as the partnership with Kemptville built around fighting climate change and developing agriculture.”
Registration information will be announced later at www.ecolecatholique.ca/kemptville.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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The Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est will start with grades 1 to 9 next September, and add one grade a year until it has a full high school.
The new school will be a second “pavilion” of the existing École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys, which is in Merrickville. The Merrickville site will stay open, but it doesn’t have room to provide a high school, and the Kemptville site does.
The school currently has about 150 students. The board says there has been a growing demand for a French school in Kemptville.
It is also considering adding an early childhood centre on campus.
Kemptville College has stood empty since the University of Guelph decided to close it, along with its campus in Alfred, to save costs. It was a decision that upset many in the community.
“Kemptville parents asked us to open a secondary school in 2013, and we are pleased to have found a solution whereby their children can benefit from a French Catholic education in their own community at an enchanting site that will offer numerous educational possibilities when school starts again in the fall of 2016,” says a statement from the board chair, Johanne Lacombe.
The board’s director of education, Réjean Sirois, called the expansion “a community project that will revitalize the Kemptville College campus and help ensure the vitality of an institution that is so very important to the local economy.
“I am already dreaming about all the programs that could be set up here, as well as the partnership with Kemptville built around fighting climate change and developing agriculture.”
Registration information will be announced later at www.ecolecatholique.ca/kemptville.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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