Bell High School (Ottawa) - Facilities and Infrastructure

Facilities and Infrastructure

Bell High School is located on a spacious 25 ac (10 ha) campus, the school building itself is in the shape of the letter "E" and divided into several “wings”. Each wing contains the faculties of a different educational discipline, with Science, Mathematics and English and Social Studies each with their own wing. The school also has standard facilities, such as an art studio and cafeteria. Bell High School offers a large variety of educational infrastructure to enrich the studies of its students. This includes the active integration of technology (including projectors, four modern computer labs, and SmartBoards as well as a large range of physical infrastructure.

The school also has a two-storey library with computer access, a student services office, two music rooms, a drama studio, an extensive costume storage room, a dance studio, a drafting studio, a full-sized gym with bleachers, a greenhouse, an automotive garage, two construction workshops and indoor weight training and exercise facilities.

Because of the size of its campus, Bell High School offers a full range of sports amenities and well as a large degree of recreational green space. The school has two baseball diamonds, two full-sized soccer fields (one doubles as a football field, with bleachers), an all season indoor hockey arena (The Bell Arena) and a 400 m gravel track either directly owned by the school or owned by the City of Ottawa immediately adjacent to the property.

Due to the large number of students attending Bell High School from other neighborhoods, a fleet of eight “600” series buses have been charted from the OC Transpo to run a custom route in order to transport students.