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==Education== [[Image:Galt CVI panorama.jpg|thumb|right|Galt Collegiate Institute is one of the oldest public high schools in Ontario.]] <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:WaterlooArchitectureSchool.jpg|thumb|right|The University of Waterloo School of Architecture campus in the former Riverside Silk Mill]] --> English-language public schooling is provided by the [[Waterloo Region District School Board]], which operates 26 elementary and five secondary schools in Cambridge. Public high schools in the city include the 165-year-old [[Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School]]; [[Preston High School (Ontario)|Preston High School]], [[Glenview Park Secondary School]]; [[Southwood Secondary School]]; and [[Jacob Hespeler Secondary School]]. Publicly funded Catholic education is available through schools operated by the [[Waterloo Catholic District School Board]]. The WCDSB runs 15 elementary and two secondary schools in the city: [[St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School (Cambridge)|St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School]] & [[Monsignor Doyle Catholic Secondary School]]. Cambridge is also home to [[École secondaire Père-René-de-Galinée]], the only French-language Catholic high school in the region. There are also a number of private elementary and secondary schools in the area. The [[University of Waterloo School of Architecture]] campus is located in Cambridge in the Riverside Silk Mill, also known as the Tiger Brand Building. Inside there is a theatre, a fitness room, and the gallery "Design at Riverside", which is one of two publicly funded galleries dedicated to architecture in Canada. The School of Architecture is home to 380 students who live, study, and learn within the Cambridge community. In 2009, [[Conestoga College]] Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning set up a new School of Engineering Technology specializing in advanced technology programs related to Robotics, Process Automation, Electronics, Communications, Engineering, and Information Technology. With over {{convert|200000|sqft|m2}} of applied learning and research space.<ref>{{cite web|title=Conestoga College Officially Takes Ownership of|url=http://www.cambridge.ca/relatedDocs/2008-10-22%20Conestoga%20and%20City%20of%20Cambridge%20Partnership.pdf|publisher=The City of Cambridge|date=October 22, 2008|access-date=September 6, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001231925/http://www.cambridge.ca/relatedDocs/2008-10-22%20Conestoga%20and%20City%20of%20Cambridge%20Partnership.pdf|archive-date=October 1, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> An announcement in mid-December 2019 indicated that Conestoga College had decided to purchase 42 acres of land in this city with the intention of relocating all of the trades and apprenticeship programs (offered at various other campuses) to Cambridge at a future date. Specifics were not immediately provided.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelph-conestoga-campus-expected-to-expand-and-quintiple-its-students-in-next-five-years-1954526 |title=Conestoga's Guelph campus targeted for big growth |date=11 December 2019 |publisher=Guelph Today |access-date=15 December 2019 |quote="move all of its trades programs from all its campuses to the Cambridge location as part of some major changes."}}</ref>
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