St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School

St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School is a Catholic high school in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Opened in the fall of 1997, St. Benedict CSS has approximately 1800 students (as of 2018), from grades 9 to 12, and is part of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board. It is informally referred to as the "Home of the Saints". The school motto, "A Celebration of People" signifies the school as a welcoming, inclusive community. The school was originally founded and opened in 1962, located on Northview Heights Drive in Cambridge, Ontario, and operated from the 1962-63 school year until the 1996-97 school year when it was closed and moved to the current three-story building. The original school structure was demolished in 2000. The current school building was planned in 1995 and constructed from 1996-1997 and was opened in September 1997 for the 1997-98 school year, though the ongoing 1997 teacher's strike delayed the opening by a few days. The original 1997 part of the school is three stories, consisting of a library, wood shop and auto shop, cooking classrooms, three gymnasiums, a lecture hall, and many different subject classrooms. There are also nine portable classrooms around the campus, as well as a full-size track-and-field track out front. The atrium features a large circular design with a full-glass ceiling and stainless-steel stair railings.