Out of more than 200 suggestions for the name of Kitchener’s newest school, Waterloo Region District School Board trustees picked one of the shortest.
When it opens, the elementary school on Thomas Slee Drive will be known as Groh Public School.
It will be named after the Groh family, who were among Waterloo Region’s first settlers.
Groh Drive, which borders the school, is also named for the family.
As a school board press release notes, the name Groh “also serves as a double entendre, as our students grow and achieve success through their school journey.”
Groh Public School is expected to open in September 2017, and have space for about 600 students between junior kindergarten and Grade 8.
The school was approved in 2013 to help deal with population growth in Kitchener’s south end.
It was expected to be open for the start of the 2016-17 school year, but was delayed due to construction issues.
Other names considered as finalists for the school included Homer Watson Public School and Stauffer Woods Public School.
WRDSB schools cannot be named after living people or duplicate a name already in use within the board.
