St. John's-Kilmarnock School

St. John's-Kilmarnock School (SJK) is a private, not-for-profit International Baccalaureate school[1] located in Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario.[2] Serving communities of Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, Ontario,[3] it is accredited by the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools.[4] SJK is supported by the charity, St. John's-Kilmarnock School Foundation.[5]

St. John's-Kilmarnock School
Address
2201 Shantz Station Road

Breslau
,
Ontario

Canada
Coordinates43.5107°N 80.3831°W / 43.5107; -80.3831
Information
School typePrivate
Founded1972
GradesJK–12
Websitewww.sjkschool.org

History

In November 1971, one year before the opening of SJK, a group of people organized in St. John's Anglican church to discuss the opening of a local boys school. The next year, the opening date of the school was finalized as September 1972.[6] The legislative assembly passed the St. John's School (Elora, Ontario, Canada) act in 1972 with royal assent.[7]

In May 1976, the St. Margaret's school for girls was opened in Elora. The two schools shared school buses, which brought in students from the Waterloo and Guelph region. They also shared St. John's Church for daily morning prayers, except on Fridays in which a longer service was held at the end of the school day.

In 1989, the boy's and girl's programs joined after the amalgamation of St. John's and St. Margaret's schools in 1985. The school was moved to a temporary location on Phillip Street in Waterloo. In 1988, a 36-acre lot of land was purchased in Breslau and the construction began on the campus later that year. The new school door's opened for students in January 1990,[6] and the campus was officially opened in 1995. Facilities have since been added to the Breslau campus to improve on academic and co-curricular activities.[8]

References
  1. "St John's - Kilmarnock School". International Baccalaureate®. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  2. "The Camous - SJK School". www.sjkschool.org. 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  3. "Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario: St. John's-Kilmarnock School". www.cisontario.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  4. "Find a School - CAIS Canadian Accredited Independent Schools". www.cais.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  5. "St. John's-Kilmarnock School Foundation". CanadaHelps - Donate to any charity in Canada. 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  6. "Our Take: Our Kids review of St. John's-Kilmarnock School". www.ourkids.net. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  7. "c 196 The St. John's School (Elora) Act, 1972". Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. 1972. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  8. "Our History". St. John's-Kilmarnock School. 2017. Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
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