Lakeshore Collegiate Institute

Lakeshore Collegiate Institute
Address
350 Kipling Avenue Toronto , Ontario , M8V 3L1 Canada
Coordinates	43°36′05″N 79°31′09″W / 43.601466°N 79.519231°W / 43.601466; -79.519231
Information
Former name	New Toronto Secondary School (1951-1983) Alderwood Collegiate Institute (1955-1983)
School type	Public High School
Motto	Futurum Doctrina et Concordia Prospice (Look to the Future with Knowledge and Friendship)
Religious affiliation(s)	Secular
Founded	1983
School board	Toronto District School Board (Etobicoke Board of Education)
Superintendent	Sandra Tondat LN19
Area trustee	Patrick Nunziata Ward 3
School number	2817 / 921092
Principal	Anthony Vandyke
Grades	9-12
Enrolment	801 (2012-13)
Language	English
Schedule type	Semestered
Area	Etobicoke
Colour(s)	Blue, White and Silver
Mascot	Phoenix
Team name	Lakeshore Phoenix
Website	www.lakeshorecollegiate.ca
Last updated: September 28, 2009

Lakeshore Collegiate Institute (also referred to as LCI or Lakeshore) is a high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.^[1] Built in 1951, Lakeshore Collegiate is a merger of New Toronto Secondary School and Alderwood Collegiate Institute. It is situated on the northwest corner of Kipling Avenue and Birmingham Street in Ward 3 of the Toronto District School Board. It serves the New Toronto, Long Branch, Alderwood, and Mimico neighbourhoods.

History

New Toronto Secondary School was originally established on September 4, 1951 by the New Toronto Board of Education to serve the Town of New Toronto and emphasized the technical trades, sciences, and mathematics, to support the many industries in the town at the time. The school's roots go back to 1926 when Long Branch Continuation School was established as an extension of an elementary school with six classrooms. The vocational program began in 1950 and students moved to the new high school the following year.

Another school in the area, Alderwood Collegiate Institute was also opened on September 6, 1955, with the official opening ceremony November 1955 as an academic high school.

During the 1980s, enrollment at Etobicoke public schools plummeted as many catholic transferred their children to the Catholic school system when full funding commenced. This led to the closure of many schools including Alderwood Collegiate Institute, Royal York Collegiate Institute and Mimico High School with the students of Alderwood and New Toronto were consolidated into the newly named Lakeshore Collegiate Institute which opened on September 6, 1983.

Overview

Sports

LCI has had several sports teams including: Hockey, Baseball, Badminton, Volleyball, Golf, Tennis, Soccer. The football team was resurrected in the fall of 2005 after many years of absence. The hockey team won the TDSSAA West Championships and qualified for OFSSAA in 2004 (Peterborough), 2006 (Timmons) and 2009 (Peterborough). The baseball team won the TDSSAA West Championships in 2006. The soccer team also won the TDSSAA West Region championship for the second time in Lakeshore CI's history in 2008. The first Soccer Championship occurred in 1986 when the Junior Boys' Soccer Team won the Etobicoke championship vs Martingrove Collegiate played at ECI in a shootout. They also went on to win the TDSSAA Championship again via Penalty Shoot-out at Eglinton Flats.^{[citation needed]}

Other extracurricular activities

Lakeshore Collegiate offers a range of extracurricular programs. Among these are the Student Activity Council (or SAC), Leadership, Dance Club, Drama club, The Announcements Committee, The Yearbook Committee, sports teams, and various groups that compete in mathematics and science competitions.

One of Lakeshore Collegiate's highlights is its Drama Department. Headed by Gregory Danakas, the Drama department offers courses for grades nine through twelve. LCI has an annual stage production in which students are selected via audition. Past stage productions have featured performances of Bram Stoker's Dracula, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Euripides' The Bacchae, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, and John Kirkpatrick's Vacancy in Paradise. Drama at LCI offers other extracurricular opportunities, such as the Play By the Lake/Sears Drama Festival, where student directed, student acted, and often student written plays are performed, as well as the Young Company, which offers Grade 9 and 10 students the chance to perform and star in a major play before they can be a part of the Mainstage Production. As of March 9, 2007, Lakeshore has won the Best Host School Award for its district.

In recent years, the LCI music department put on concerts both for the student body and for the public.^{[citation needed]}

Notable graduates

• Adam Copeland, Former WWE Wrestler known as Edge
• Manny Fernandez, NHL player
• Trish Stratus, Former WWE Diva
• Zdvravko Kukolic, Bank Executive

See also

• List of high schools in Ontario

References

External links

• TDSB Profile

This page was last edited on 26 April 2024, at 16:57