High school students now welcomed at Monseigneur-Jamot

The city’s only French school will see its first batch of high school students this year.

École Monseigneur-Jamot will welcome Grade 9 students on Tuesday.

They’ll be the first group of high school students to attend the French Catholic school facility that opened a year ago on Woodglade Boulevard.

It replaced the former MonseigneurJamot on Romaine St. that went from junior kindergarten to Grade 8.

The new school was built to accommodate both elementary and high school grades, housing up to 430 students. It also has a day care.

But no one enrolled in the high school last year. The Grade 8 students went on to other schools instead.

There’s no word on how many Grade 9 students there’ll be, but a spokeswoman for the French Catholic school board confirmed Friday that Grade 9 was launching this year.

“The school looks forward to welcoming the new Grade 9 students – as well as other students – on Tuesday,” Mikale-Andrée Joly, director of corporate affairs for the school board, stated in an email.

Monseigneur-Jamot’s principal, Mélanie Bergeron Langlois, wasn’t available for comment Friday.

School officials held an open house at Monseigneur-Jamot in November.

That’s when parents and students heard about the two avenues of study Grade 9 students could choose from, either business commerce or integrated arts.

At the open house, Bergeron Langlois spoke of the school’s great chemistry lab, one-to-one ratio to technology and of math being a priority, with students learning it annually instead of per semester.

She also said students had been surveyed to see what they’d like to have as extracurricular activities. The feedback led to a music club, dance club and homework club, with transportation home provided afterwards.