Sir Edgar Bauer Elementary School
Sir Edgar Bauer is a Catholic elementary school in Waterloo, Ontario[1]. It was founded in 1970, and originally was built with just 10 classrooms. It was named after the local man Sir Edgar Jacob Bauer, a devout catholic, and a good buisnessman. It had an addition built in 1996 after the school had two times the amount of children it was originally built for. During it's major crowding in the nineties there were so many students that the school had 14 portables. The addition included a larger gym, with the former gym becoming a library, as well as several classrooms now used by Intermediate and Primary Students. Much of the money for the renovations for the school were provided by mothers angry by the overcrowding, through a fundraiser[2]. The school currently holds some 300 students, down from nearly 700 in the mid-nineties. The school enroles students from Kindergarten to Grade 8, and has all day kindergarden. The grounds also contain a blacktop, four basketball nets, six soccer nets, two baseball diamonds and a playground, whiole there are more than 20 classrooms, as well as a gym and library. Sir Edgar Bauer school's church is St. Michael's church, located next to Wilfrid Laurier University. Sir Edgar Bauer school is a member of the Waterloo Catholic Distric School Board.