Tecumseh K-12 School Ground Breaking

The Greater Essex County District School Board is pleased to commemorate the beginning of construction of its new school in Tecumseh.

Funding Approved:      June 2007
Budget:                         $22,633,197
General Contractor:     Wincon Construction
Architect:                       J.P. Thompson
Completion date:         September 2011 (elementaly) Winter 2011-12 ((secondary)
Estimated enrolment:  820 elementary 500 secondary (Phase 1)
Principal:                       Paul Bisson (elementary) Joan Rankin (secondary)
School Name:              T.B.D. - a committee is being formed by the Director of Education to determine the school name. Submissions from the community are being accepted for the next 6 weeks. E-mail scott.scantlebury@gecdsb.on.ca Please put Tecumseh School Name in subject line.

Notes: This school will be the first JK - Grade 12 school in the Greater Essex County District School Board This is the first new secondary school in the GECDSB in more than 40 years (the last new one built by the previous Windsor Board of Education was Shawnee) This is the GECDSB's 7"' new school construction project in the past decade