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Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute | |
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Address | |
125 Chatsworth Drive , , M4R 1S1 Canada | |
Coordinates | 43°43′20″N79°24′37″W / 43.7221°N 79.4103°W |
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School type | High School |
Motto | Amor Doctrinae Floreat (Let the love of learning flourish) |
Founded | 1936 |
School board | Toronto District School Board (Toronto Board of Education) |
Superintendent | Andrew Howard |
Area trustee | Ward 8 |
Principal | Michael Griesz |
Grades | 9 - 12 |
Enrolment | 1196 (2019-2020) |
Language | English, French Immersion, Extended French |
Colour(s) | Gold and Blue |
Mascot | Panther |
Team name | Lawrence Park Panthers |
Website | schoolweb |
Last updated: September 21, 2020 |
Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute is a semestered, public high school institution with over 1,267 students enrolled. The school is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12 and is operated and governed by the Toronto District School Board. Until 1998, the school was part of the former Toronto Board of Education.
The school is located in the Lytton Park neighbourhood. The majority of students come from the surrounding Bedford Park, Lytton Park, North Toronto, and Lawrence Park areas. The closest TTC subway station is Lawrence station.
Lawrence Park Collegiate was founded in 1936. Charles W. Robb was the school's first principal and went on to become the Superintendent of Secondary Education for Toronto. [1] The front entrance was built with Beaux-Arts elements.
There are over 50 athletic clubs that wear the Panther colours of blue and gold. In recent years Lawrence Park has won TDSB Championships in Swimming, (boys and girls), Cross Country, Curling (girls), Ice Hockey (girls), Soccer (boys and girls), Track and Field, Tennis, Volleyball, Alpine Skiing (boys and girls) and Snowboarding.
In March 2016 both the girls' Curling team and the girls' Hockey team won OFSAA championships.
In 2018 Lawrence Park CI were the OFSAA Girls’ AAA soccer champions.
Lawrence Park has a very large and active Drama Council that is responsible for various events at the school. The council plans and runs the Remembrance Day assembly. Each year the council runs United Artists for a Cause, a performing arts night that includes music, drama and a fashion show. Lawrence Park is one of few schools that enters 2 plays in the NTS (formerly Sears) drama festival in addition to hosting the festival. Each year, there is a school play performed for hundreds of people including Arsenic and Old Lace (2016), Departures and Arrivals (2017) and Anne of Green Gables (2018). Dramatic productions take place in a very large and recently upgraded auditorium with a new LED lighting system installed in 2017. "Masquerade," a school magazine, showcases the music, drama and visual arts programs at Lawrence Park Collegiate. [2]
Lawrence Park Collegiate offers a wide variety of clubs and councils. The students, along with their staff advisors, are currently running close to 30 different clubs within the school. They include:
The school also has multiple councils for students to join, ranging from the Student Council to the Classics Council to the Athletic Council.
There are some groups that are not labelled as clubs nor councils but are still involved in the school. These are:
Lawrence Park has three main feeder schools from around the area:
Students from John Wanless Public School, John Ross Robertson Public School, John Fisher Public School, and Allenby Public School graduate to Glenview Senior Public School and then to Lawrence Park, while students from Bedford Park Junior Public School and Blessed Sacrament go straight to Lawrence Park as they go from Kindergarten to grade 8.
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