Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School

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Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School is a high school in Bracebridge, Ontario. It serves approximately 900 students, grades 9 through 12, from Bracebridge and surrounding areas in Muskoka; attached to it is the Bracebridge Sportsplex and the Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre.BMLSS is one of seven secondary schools in the Trillium Lakelands District School Board, and is one of only two high schools in Bracebridge; the other is St. Dominic Catholic Secondary School.LocationBMLSS is located at 100 Clearbrook Trail, Bracebridge, Ontario, in the same building as the Bracebridge Sportsplex and the Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre. The facility is new, having completed construction in August 2007; the following month, the facility became open for use. The theatre and sportsplex are open to all students, and are used regularly by the dramatic arts classes and phys ed. classes.The facility was opened to replace the old high school, located in town, built in the early 1920s, as well as the old Bracebridge Culture and Recreation centre (the "Centennial Centre"), which was over 30 years old. The old buildings still exist; the old location of the high school has been remodeled into McMurray Condos and Lofts, while the old Culture and Recreation centre was remodeled and became a Georgian College campus for Muskoka.Special programsBMLSS offers an Advanced Placement (AP) program, which allows students to potentially bypass a first-year credit in University; the school is one of only two in the district to offer this program. Grade 12 courses offering this include Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Functions, French, and English.