Our School

St. Benedict School is one of three Catholic public schools in Leduc. We have 234 students attending our school from kindergarten to grade five. There are two classes of each grade except grade five. There are 17 students in our grade four class.

Leduc 100th Anniversary Quilt

Our Community

Leduc is a small city of 17,000 people. It is a satellite community of Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta. Most people live in private, one family homes. Leduc has access to a major highway, railway, and the Edmonton International Airport. Important buildings are the hospital; a new Protective Services building that houses the Leduc RCMP Detachment, the Fire Department and the Ambulance Department; the Black Gold Center consists of a hockey arena, indoor swimming pool with a water slide and outdoor spray park, and a cultural core with meeting rooms. The city also has a variety of outdoor facilities: baseball diamonds, soccer, football, and rugby fields and even a biathlon range. Leduc has beautiful parks with a 25 km. system of cycling and foot paths that link the parks and all the city1s neighborhoods. Telford Lake is surrounded by nature and interpretive trails. The lake is very popular. In summer, people launch canoes on the lake. In winter, ice racing and cross country skiing are popular. Fred Johns Park is closest to our school. It has a large reservoir. Its a great place to go trout fishing and adjacent is the Leduc Golf and Country Club. Leduc is known as an oil city. The first oil well in Alberta was the Leduc No. 1 in 1947. Many jobs are related to the oil industry. Because the airport borders Leduc, many people also work at the International Airport.

Leduc Civic Centre 

Landscape

The land in our city is flat with lots of trees planted in the many parks and along pathways. Within the city limits is a lake and several man-made lakes. We see an occasional rabbit hopping across the school field. We have lots of wildlife around the reservoir; e.g. muskrats, Canada geese, cormorants, red-winged blackbirds, etc. Deer are a problem in the airport fields and they are often hit by vehicles when they try to cross the highway. We even had skunks in some of our backyards last summer!

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