| École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité | |
| Un envol vers l'avernir.... A flight into the future... |
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| 623 Smyth Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 1N7, Canada |
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| School board | Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est |
| Principal | Stephane Bergeron |
| Vice principal | , Anik Charrette |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Language | French |
| Area | Ottawa |
| Mascot | Falcon (les faucons) |
| Colours | Green and White |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Homepage | franco-cite.ecolecatholique.ca |
École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité is a French Catholic school in Ottawa, Ontario. It is under the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE). The school offers three main programs to the students.
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The school was inaugurated October 20, 1994. In its first year as a high school, ESC Franco-Cité had 150 9th Grade students enrolled. It is estimated that more than 1150 students are enrolled at Franco-Cité for September 2009. In 2004, the school started accepting Grade 7 and 8 students, instead of beginning with the usual Grade 9. The school has seen many different incarnations, from the original minor seminary, or Séminaire de Mazenod, run by the Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate as a grades 9 to 11 preparatory adjunct to their juniorate, the Juniorat du Sacré-Coeur, on the University of Ottawa campus, to sharing its premises with the Centre Jules-Léger, an adult school for the mentally-challenged, from old, dusty portables to a now beautiful redesigned building with added space for the two years added to the official high school experience. The seminary used to have a chapel, the huge western wing which was turned into a library when it became Collège Samuel-Genest; there's a story about a boy who died from hypothermia from not wearing a coat that haunts the school, mainly told by Mme Brisson, teacher. The seminary used to have an ice rink where a later addition now stands.
The school offers three main programs to students frequenting the school. They are :
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