Northern Secondary School (Toronto)
| Northern Secondary School | |
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 The Pride, The Spirit. |
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| Address | |
| 851 Mount Pleasant Road Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2L5, Canada |
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| Information | |
| School number | 930768 |
| School board | Toronto District School Board |
| Superintendent | Ian Allison |
| Area trustee | Shelly Laskin |
| Principal | Ron Felsen |
| Vice principal | Robert McIntosh Ken Do Stuart Burns |
| School type | Public high school |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Mascot | Red Knight |
| Team name | Red Knights |
| Colours | Red, Gold, and Blue |
| Founded | September 1930 |
| Enrollment | 1,800 (Fall 2011) [1] |
| Homepage | http://www.northern-secondary.com/ |
Northern Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12.
Northern's football team, the Red Knights, have won numerous titles in Toronto's high school league (including two Metro Bowls, and the first Toronto Bowl). As well, a number of top players have gone on to join the Canadian Football League.[2]
Northern was the first Ontario school to have a student council. [3]
Northern's gifted program / enriched program and its comprehensive range of elective courses, including a diverse art department, bring students in from across the city, as do its deaf and hard of hearing programs, although in recent years it has become harder to get in via optional attendance lotteries.
Northern has long-standing rivalries with nearby high-school North Toronto Collegiate Institute and also with Central Technical School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and Leaside High School.
The films Carrie and Resident Evil: Apocalypse were filmed inside the school. The academic decathlon scene of Billy Madison was filmed in the school's auditorium. Numerous commercials have also been filmed on the school's premises.
The school is a pilot site of a Toronto Police Service program that places on-duty police officers in schools.
Founded in 1930, it was originally known as Northern Vocational School, until the twenty-fifth anniversary when the name was changed to Northern Technical-Commercial, which lasted for three years until the present name, Northern Secondary School, came into use because a definite district had been assigned for matriculation students.
References
- ^ http://northern-secondary.com/Joomla/attachments/138_Profile%20of%20Student%20Achievement%202011%20doc.pdf
- ^ "Northern Secondary School Back on Track". NFLCFLFutures.com. CAnadian ONline Explorer. 2004-03-10. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
- ^ "That first year….Northern Vocational School opens". NOVOC Yearbook, 1931. Northern Secondary School. Archived from the original on 2006-09-27. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
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Coordinates: 43°42′38.17″N 79°23′24.42″W / 43.7106028°N 79.3901167°W
