Earl Of March Secondary School

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Earl of March Secondary School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located in suburban Kanata in the Beaverbrook neighbourhood. The school also serves the neighbourhoods of Kanata Lakes and Katimavik-Hazeldean.HistoryThe Earl of March Secondary School opened on December 6, 1971 and was the only school in the area that would become the City of Kanata . The school was designed by Balharrie, Helmer, and Gibson architects and engineers for the Carleton Board of Education and was built for $5.5M. The school was designed to be one of the best educational facilities in the province for its time featuring all the amenities of a large modern high school including a 750-seat proscenium arch auditorium, a large gymnasium with a balcony, a smaller exercise gym, a large cafeteria, a library, specialized science, technology, and arts rooms, as well as several flexible spaces.When the school opened, the Earl of March's catchment area was a large part of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton, encompassing March, Huntley, Torbolton, and Fitzroy townships and part of Goulbourn Township. As such, Earl of March served for many years as the sole high school for Ottawa's then-nascent northwestern suburbs outside the Greenbelt. As Kanata started to rapidly expand in the late 1970s to the 1990s, other high schools were built and the catchment area was made smaller to prevent excessive over-crowding. Today, the Earl of March is one of five public high schools and three other schools that now facilitate the area the Earl used to.