Bear Creek Secondary School

Bear Creek Secondary School
Bear Creek Secondary School
	Main entrance
Address
	100 Red Oak Drive; Barrie, Ontario, L4N 9M5; Canada
Coordinates	44°19′55″N 79°44′01″W / 44.331949°N 79.733711°W
Information
School type	Public
Opened	4 September 2001
School board	SCDSB
Superintendent	Charlene Scime
Area trustee	Lisa-Marie Wilson
School number	894060
Principal	Jeremy Oxley
Grades	9 - 12
Enrollment	1533 (2020–21)
Colour(s)
Nickname	Kodiaks
Website	bss.scdsb.on.ca

Bear Creek Secondary School (also known as BCSS) is a public secondary school (grades 9-12) located in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 2001, it is the second largest high school in Simcoe County and currently has an enrollment of more than 1500 students. The current principal is Jeremy Oxley. The school has an extremely large catchment area of mainly south & west Barrie, but also portions of Essa Township and Springwater Township.

Facilities[edit]

The construction of Bear Creek was completed January 2001 by Bondfield Construction for the Simcoe County District School Board, costing CAD18,100,000. It was designed by Zawadzki Armin Stevens Architects. The two-storey school has an area of 167,570 square feet (15,568 m²), and includes athletic facilities such as a gymnasium, exercise room, and a running track on the second floor. The school also features specialized classrooms, a round cafetorium, a food court area, and a large forum. Exterior features include a large parking area, an outdoor track and a large sports/football field.^[5] Nine years later, in 2010, a one-storey, 25,327 square feet (2,353.0 m²) area expansion added six new classrooms, including two woodshops, a dance studio, and a hospitality suite, amongst other facilities. The CAD7.5 million expansion budget also covered renovations to the original part of the school.^[6]

Notable faculty[edit]

Lance Chomyc, former Toronto Argonaut and football record holder (In 1991, he set a record of 236 points)^[7]

Notable alumni[edit]

Daniel (Danny) Vandervoort, Edmonton Elks wide receiver. Drafted in the 2017 CFL draft 3rd overall

References[edit]

^ "SCDSB - Area 3B". www.scdsb.on.ca. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^ "SCDSB - Trustee". scdsb.on.ca. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
^ "About Us". Bear Creek Secondary School. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
^ "About Us". Bear Creek Secondary School. Bear Creek Secondary School. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
^ "Bear Creek Secondary School". Bondfield. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^ "Digging in to Bear Creek's expansion". Barrie Examiner. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^ "CFL.ca - Official site of the Canadian Football League". CFL.ca. Retrieved 17 October 2017.

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