Kids in Cranston, Alberta will have a brand-new, LEED-certified school to look forward to once their holidays are over.

Christ the King Catholic School is the first of the Alberta Schools Alternate Procurement project’s buildings to open.

The Calgary Herald reports the school was built as part of Phase 1 of ASAP which will also see the opening of two other  Catholic schools: Our Lady of the Evergreens (K-6) in Evergreen and Light of Christ (K-9) in Saddle Ridge, and six new public schools: Bridlewood (K-6), Cranston (K-4), Evergreen (K-4), Royal Oak (K-4), Saddle Ridge (K-3), and West Springs (K-5).

“We had a real backlog of construction; to have six of them come on line this year for 2010-11 is very exciting for us,” says Calgary Board of Education chair Pat Cochrane.

This P3 project made the Top 100 list last year. Work is also underway on the second phase of the project, where an additional ten schools are expected to be built.