Kiilinik High School

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Kiilinik High School
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Location
Kiilinik High School
23 Omingmak Street,

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Canada
Coordinates 69°07′06″N105°03′18″W / 69.11833°N 105.05500°W / 69.11833; -105.05500
Information
School boardIkaluktutiak District Education Authority
School district Kitikmeot School Operations
SuperintendentAlbert Trask
ChairAlan Sim [1]
DirectorCatherine Keeling
PrincipalCale Duffus [2]
Teaching staff10 [2]
Employees15 [2]
Grades7 - 12
Enrollment200+
Language Inuinnaqtun and English
Mascot Wolverines
Team nameKiilinik Wolverines

Kiilinik High School is a grades 7 to 12 school located in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. The school serves not only the community but also those of Bathurst Inlet and Umingmaktok should the need arise. At one time a hostel was available for Bathurst Inlet area students but due to families moving to Cambridge Bay it was repurposed.

Cambridge Bay is the regional centre for the Kitikmeot and has a large Nunavut Arctic College presence. The college attracts student from throughout the region and Nunavut as whole, some of whom bring their children who also attend the high school.

The current building was opened in 2002 after the previous building was destroyed in a fire in 1998. [3]

The school proper includes a community gym for which $70,000 was raised to ensure a full-sized facility was built. [3] The school library also includes the May Hakongak Public Library and Kitikmeot Heritage Society museum and office area. [4]

References

  1. Varela, William Koblensky (10 September 2025). "Lack of hamlet food vouchers a back-to-school concern, says Cambridge Bay DEA chair". Nunavut News . Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Havaktit Hivayautaita nampait" (in Western Canadian Inuktitut). Government of Nunavut . Retrieved 18 September 2025.
  3. 1 2 Rudeout, Denise (13 April 2002). "Rebuilding Kiilinik". Nunatsiaq News. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  4. "About the School". Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2020.