School Construction

Not Capital Priority Funding, Funding will be through School Conditioning Funding

• Grant: N/A – Approx. construction cost $16,000,000
• Pupil Places: 706
• Architect: Archon
• General Contractor: Alliance General Contracting
• Construction Begins: January 2025
• Occupancy: The project is anticipated to be complete in July 2026 allowing the students to return for the start of school in September 2026.

• Grant: $4,854,477
• Pupil Places: 184 (8 classrooms)
• Architect: Cornerstone Architecture
• General Contractor: Titan
• Construction Begins: July 2024
• Final Completion: We aim to open the addition in September 2025

• Grant: $3,913,731
• Pupil Places: 184 (8 Classrooms)
• Architect: Architecttura Inc.
• General Contractor: T.B.D.
• Construction Begins: March 2025

Occupancy: We aim to open the addition in September 2026

• Grant: $3,707,933
• Pupil Places: 184 (8 Classrooms)
• Architect: Architecttura Inc.
• General Contractor: T.B.D.
• Construction Begins: March 2025

Occupancy: We aim to open the addition in September 2026

• Grant: $13.02 million
• Pupil Places: 582
• Location: East of Rourke Line Road and North of Girard Drive
• Architect: Architecttura Inc.
• General Contractor: T.B.D.
• Construction Begins: March 2025 (Target Date)
• Occupancy: September 2027 (Target Date)

• Grant: $8,147,057
• Pupil Places: 78
• Architect: Architecttura Inc.
• General Contractor: Alliance General Contracting
• Construction Begins: July 2024
• Occupancy: We aim to open the addition and retrofit area in September 2025

In November 2015, the Greater Essex County District School Board (GECDSB) was awarded a grant of $15.3 million for the construction of a new school in Tecumseh. In 2022 the GECDSB was awarded an additional $7.2 million for this project. This new school will replace the current D.M. Eagle Public School and serve students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 within the Tecumseh and Lakeshore areas.

• ​Grant: $22,500,000
• Pupil Places: 651
• Architect: J.P. Thomson
• General Contractor: Fortis Group
• Construction Begins: 2022
• Final Completion: September 2024

he Greater Essex County District School Board has purchased land to develop a new Kindergarten to Grade 12 school in Kingsville. The new school will replace Kingsville District High School, Kingsville Public School and Jack Miner Public School.

• Grant: $59,900,000 (approximately)
• Number of students: 1,045 elementary students and 753 secondary students
• Architect: Architecttura
• General contractor: Fortis Construction
• Construction begins: April 2022

Final completion: September, 2024

Eastview Horizon Public School consolidated Eastwood and Parkview Public Schools.

Construction for the new school began in May of 2021. There were some unavoidable delays with the project and the timeline for completion was adjusted. We opened the school in September, 2023.

• ​​​Grant: $11,080,000 plus $2,110,000 for four additional childcare rooms
• Number of students: 501
• Location: 3070 Stillmeadow Rd.
• Architect: WalterFedy
• General contractor: Fortis Construction

The GECDSB built James L. Dunn Public School to help meet increased demands for French Immersion programming in the City of Windsor. This school replaced Giles Campus French Immersion Public School.

Construction began in November of 2019 and the school opened in September of 2022. 

• Grant: $15,230,000
• Number of students: 645
• Architect: J.P. Thomson Architects

General contractor: Fortis ​Group

The Greater Essex County District School Board has built a new elementary school in LaSalle to replace Prince Andrew Public School.

Construction on the new school began in April of 2020 and finished in the summer of 2021 with the school opening in September 2021.

• ​​​​​​Grant: $9,180,832
• Number of students: 432
• Architect: The WalterFedy Partnership Architects
• General contractor: Rosati Construction

Addition Details

• Grant: $4,901,913
• Pupil Places: 167 (5 classrooms and 2 full-day kindergarten)
• Architect: Cornerstone WalterFedy
• General Contractor: Front Construction
• Construction Begins: July 2023
• Occupancy: September 2024

 North Star High School consolidated General Amherst and Western Secondary. The school opened in September of 2022. 

• Grant: $24,324,129
• Number of students: 819
• Architect: J.P. Thomson Ltd.
• General contractor: Fortis Construction

The ninety-one-year-old W.C. Kennedy Collegiate building received a $5 million dollar facelift completed in 2020. Many renovations restored the school's outward appeal which stands guard over Jackson Park in Windsor.

The W.C. Kennedy Collegiate was built in 1928 for $750,000, which was a large investment at the time. Built with a Gothic design, the structure had taken on an increasingly imposing temperament as it neared its 100th anniversary. This classic building has been compared to other notable architecture on the campuses of Oxford and Cambridge universities.

To restore the W.C. Kennedy Collegiate building, we:

• Rebuilt the entire façade facing Tecumseh Road
• Refreshed the brass Kennedy Collegiate inscription above the main door
• Re-pointed the masonry to extend the life of the exterior structure
• Repaired the prominent windows in the library
• Painted many areas inside the building
• Installed a new roof
• Added environmental upgrades
• Repaired the storm sewer along the front of the building

Hugh Beaton Public School (Renovation)