By Troy Gillard

Coming to Kentwood

Name announced for new Red Deer Catholic middle school

Jun 30, 2020 | 11:20 AM

Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools has announced that its new middle school (grades 6-9) will be known as St. Lorenzo Ruiz Middle School.

The district’s board of trustees unanimously approved the name selection at their most recent meeting.

The school will be located in Kingsgate, in the Kentwood neighbourhood.

“We invited the community to suggest names and received several excellent submissions. We narrowed it down to three, but in the end, unanimously chose to name our school after St. Lorenzo Ruiz,” said Board Chair said Anne Marie Watson. “He was a Chinese-Filipino saint who is the patron saint of the Philippines. With Red Deer Catholic Regional School’s large multicultural population, especially our large Filipino population, we felt this was a fitting choice.”

Funding for the new middle school was announced last fall. The delivery method will be a jurisdiction-delivered design, bid and build. The school building will have a capacity of 537 students and will include eight modular units to bring the capacity to 737 students. The permanent facility will be 5,913 square metres.

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Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools will receive $2 million in design funding, with construction funding to follow once the design is finalized.

The architect will go out for tender and be selected this summer. Then, a committee will be formed in the upcoming school year to work with the architect in designing the new school.