Brentwood College School
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2735 Mount Baker Road Mill Bay, British Columbia, V0R 2P1 Canada |
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| School type | Private Day and Boarding |
| Motto | De Manu in Manum (From Hand To Hand) |
| Founded | 1923 |
| Head of School | Bud Patel |
| Staff | 135 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 350 boarders and 80 local day students |
| Language | English |
| Area | 77 acres (310,000 m2) |
| Colour(s) | Red and Black |
| Mascot | Big Torch |
| Website | www |
| Last updated: 2009 | |
Brentwood College School is a co-educational boarding school that focuses on preparing students for the challenges of post-secondary education. Brentwood is located on Vancouver Island in Mill Bay, British Columbia, Canada.
Brentwood was first founded in 1923. The original location was in Brentwood Bay near Saanich on Vancouver Island, from where its name was derived. The original school was destroyed by a fire in 1947, leaving only the chapel intact. The current school is located westward directly across the bay from the original site, in Mill Bay. The new version of the school opened in September 1961. In 1972, Brentwood College became the first all-boys boarding school in Canada to gradually integrate girls, starting with 20 grade 12 students, becoming officially co-ed for the fall session.
Brentwood's 77-acre oceanfront campus has a dozen tennis courts, four rugby fields, eight student residences, two academic buildings, a rowing boathouse, laundry facilities, a cafeteria, a sportsplex, and a health centre while stretching across two kilometres of ocean shores.
Brentwood's sustainable building use a geothermal loop for heating and cooling as part of the school's commitment to sustainable energy.
In 2003, the T. Gil Bunch Centre was built. This 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) facility includes a 431-seat theatre, dance studio, media arts room, green room, four dressing rooms, and other production related spaces as well as a music suite.
In 2010, Crooks Hall was built featuring an oceanfront dining room and student services centre that seats 350 people at rectangular tables. The table layout optimizes space, accommodating staggered breakfasts and dinners as well as lunches for more than 430 people in 25 minutes. Crooks Hall also houses The Saville Centre for Business and Entrepreneurship, School Store, and Laundry and Mail Services. This sustainable facility has been designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards and practices have also been taught to the students in order to assist the faculty in consuming less water and electricity.
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