Sandwich Secondary School is a school in

LaSalle, Ontario LaSalle is a town in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. It is a bedroom community of the City of Windsor and part of the Windsor Census Metropolitan Area, and is located south of that city. LaSalle, along with Windsor, is the oldest French settleme ...

. It has about 1,050 students, and teaches about half of the students in LaSalle, along with St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic Secondary School. Sandwich Secondary School is part of the

Greater Essex County District School Board The Greater Essex County District School Board (known as English-language Public District School Board No. 9 prior to 1999) was created on January 1, 1998 with the amalgamation of the Windsor Board of Education and the Essex County Board of Educ ...

, or GECDSB. It was named after the former town of

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, which used to encompass the western shores of Windsor, as well as LaSalle.

About

Prior to the opening of the school building in 1970/71, high school students in LaSalle were bused to General Amherst High School. Sandwich Sabres football

Sandwich Secondary's track-and-field complex, named the Robert C. Carrick Memorial Track, opened in 1993 at a cost of $1.70 million and includes an 8-lane rubberized all weather track, field house, grandstand, football and soccer field, baseball diamond, track and field event area (shot-put, a discus circle, all weather javelin approach, all weather runways for long jump, triple jump, pole vault), and a concession stand. The complex was named after a police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1968 and is home to the Sandwich Sabres Men's Football team. Sandwich Secondary also has a French immersion program for those coming from French immersion grade schools along with an English public schooling. Its feeder schools, or family of elementary schools, are Sandwich West Public School, LaSalle Public School, Sacred Heart Roman Catholic School, Legacy Oak Trail Public School, Giles Campus and École Bellewood Public School.Sandwich Secondary School
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Notable alumni

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– former CFL player *

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– Lawyer, MMA fighter *

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– drums,

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in the Canadian Rock Groups

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and Crash Karma * Stuart Chatwood – bass,

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, keyboards, in the Canadian Rock Group

* Andy Delmore – former NHL player *

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– Electronic Music artist and world-renowned DJ * Jeff Martin –

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, in the Canadian Rock Group

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– Olympic swimmer * Kamau Peterson – former CFL player * Amanda Reason – Olympic swimmer and former women's 50-metre breaststroke world record-holder (long course) *

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– Actress * Christian Vincent – professional dancer, choreographer, actor and model

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High schools in Essex County, Ontario 1970 establishments in Ontario Educational institutions established in 1970

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