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You could do so many things with an old school. You could turn it into a health-care facility, a factory, or a giant paintball course.

It could be an arts centre — the gym has a stage already replete with curtains.

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Or it could be subdivided to become all of these things. It’s a school, after all. It’s pretty massive.

Dream big, people — 36,000-square-feet-plus-nine-acres big.

That’s the size of the former McClellan School, which is currently up for auction in Young, a village southeast of Saskatoon.

Buy it now for $369,000, or bid over the next three weeks in the online auction: Since bidding opened on March 1, bids have driven up the price to $140,000 (as of Wednesday morning). Bidding ends March 31.

“It’s just a multitude of (things) it could be used for; the mind just wanders,” said Terry McDougall of McDougall Auctioneers Ltd. in Saskatoon, which has previously auctioned a couple of schools.