Wasaga Seaside will lastly have its first highschool. On Wednesday, the City introduced the state-of-the-art kindergarten to Grade 12 college venture will go forward.
“This distinctive venture will ship greater than further elementary college capability, a toddler care centre and a group theatre for Wasaga Seaside. It’s the first highschool within the historical past of our group, and it’s lengthy overdue,” mentioned Mayor Brian Smith in a press launch.
“It’s time that Wasaga Seaside has its personal college for highschool college students,” mentioned Brian Saunderson, MPP for Simcoe-Gray.
Ontario Schooling Minister Stephen Lecce was in Wasaga Seaside for Wednesday’s announcement.
“This is likely one of the largest college initiatives we’ll approve on this spherical of capital,” Lecce mentioned.
“We agreed on the proposal, we delivered $57.7 million and a variety of Okay to 12 faculties, particularly in rising and rural components of Ontario, have turn out to be extra frequent, so on the finish of the day, the choice level was the boards to make it Okay to 12. We funded it, and we’re dedicated to getting it accomplished,” he added.
The brand new college will probably be a part of the City’s new twin-pad enviornment on River Highway West, and have room for greater than 1,000 college students, plus a further 49 licensed youngster care areas.
“By leveraging $60 million of current municipal infrastructure within the City’s new twin-pad enviornment and library, we’re capable of ship an expanded vary of group makes use of, lower your expenses for taxpayers, and ship a Okay-12 college for our group at a extra inexpensive worth for the college board,” famous Wasaga Seaside’s CAO Andrew McNeill.
The beachfront city is one among Ontario’s fastest-growing municipalities, with its inhabitants of 25,000 predicted to double by 2051, and with no current secondary college in Wasaga Seaside, the City estimates that 1,000 highschool college students are bused exterior the group.
The brand new elementary/secondary college campus is predicted to open in 2027.
