Monsignor J.E Ronan expansion, and a new Wasaga Beach high school on list of funded projects

Posted January 28, 2025​

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A 184-student-space, $3.9 million elementary school addition to Monsignor J.E. Ronan Catholic School in Beeton, is among the 45 capital projects to be financed out of a $1.3 billion Ministry of Education funding package. The school opened in 2001.

 

The 30 new schools and 15 additions were selected from the 2024-25 capital priorities program each school board submits for approval each year.

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After years of lobbying, Wasaga Beach, the largest municipality in Simcoe County without its own public secondary school, will receive $59.3 million for a 1,145 student-space building. Last Wasaga received funding for a JK to Gr. 12 Catholic school.

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A new 616-student-space school in southeast Barrie at a cost of $27.1 million, and  184-student-space elementary school addition at Notre Dame Catholic School in Orillia, $3.9 million, were the other projects approved.