Peterborough Collegiate

Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School
Address
Map
201 McDonnel Street

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Canada
Coordinates44°18′33″N 78°19′20″W / 44.30928°N 78.32233°W / 44.30928; -78.32233
Information
School typePublic High School
Founded1827; 197 years ago (1827)
School boardKawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
SuperintendentPeter Mangold[1]
Area trusteeRose Kitney, Roy Wilfong, Wes Marsden
School number935182
PrincipalJim Rielly
Grades9 to 12
LanguageEnglish
AreaCOSSA
Colour(s)Garnet and Grey   
MascotRalph The Raider
Team nameRaiders
Websitepace.kprdsb.ca

PACE at Peterborough Collegiate, formerly Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School, is a public secondary school located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada and is a member of the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. It is one of the oldest public schools in the country and was the only public high school in the city of Peterborough until the opening of Kenner Collegiate Vocational Institute in 1952.[citation needed] Regular student programming ended at Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School in June 2012. The building was renamed Peterborough Collegiate and in August 2012 opened as a re-purposed facility offering alternative and continuing education (ACE).[2]

Peterborough Collegiate was founded in 1827 as the Peterborough Government School on the former property of Central Public School. Since then it has been moved to different locations throughout the central part of the city with various names and types of programming.[citation needed] It reached its peak enrollment in 1959 with 1402 students and used additional buildings to accommodate the students of the baby boom.[3] At the turn of the twenty-first century, the trend of declining enrollment had reduced the school student population to 800 students with approximately one third in the Integrated Arts and English Language Learners programs.[4]

  1. ^ Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.
  2. ^ Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.
  3. ^ "Peterborough Examiner". Archived from the original on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  4. ^ Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.