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The 40-acre natural campus includes Newton House (Learning Commons and Dining Hall, opened 2016), the Chapel of St. Margaret & St. John (2000), the Boathouse (2014, expanded 2020), an Art, Design and Media Centre (2023), a Celebration Garden and Outdoor Classroom (2022), and the OmniCourt multi-sport surface (2025). The CAIS Visiting Committee described the facilities as 'excellent — well designed, thoughtfully decorated, highly functional.'
The 15,000-square-foot Athletics and Health Centre features a double gymnasium, a full fitness centre, and four change rooms with shower facilities. The campus has four outdoor playing fields, an OmniCourt multi-purpose court, and the Boathouse on the waterfront. An on-campus Athletic Therapy Clinic provides pre-competition taping, on-site injury care, baseline cognitive testing for Grades 6-12, and ImPACT head injury management.
Newton House contains the Learning Commons and Dining Hall. The Art, Design and Media Centre opened in 2023. Classrooms are designed to support PYP, MYP, and DP curricula with both indoor and outdoor experiential learning spaces. The Chapel serves as both a spiritual and community gathering space.
The Boathouse provides waterfront facilities for outdoor and experiential programming. Four outdoor playing fields and the OmniCourt support co-curricular sports. The campus grounds are used for grade-specific camps and outdoor education programming as part of the Five Worlds Program.
St. John's-Kilmarnock School is an independent, co-educational, not-for-profit IB Continuum school on a 40-acre campus in Breslau, Ontario, within the Waterloo Region. Founded in 1972, SJK is one of only a few IB Continuum schools in Canada, offering the Primary Years Programme (JK-Grade 6), Middle Years Programme (Grades 7-10), and Diploma Programme (Grades 11-12). The school has an average class size of 17 and achieves a 100% post-secondary admission rate. A boarding programme for Grades 9-12 operates in partnership with St. Jerome's University on the University of Waterloo campus. The campus features Newton House with a Learning Commons and Dining Hall, a Chapel, Athletics Centre with a double gymnasium, the Boathouse, an Art, Design and Media Centre, and an OmniCourt. SJK holds accreditation from CAIS, CIS Ontario, and the IBO.
