Bayview Secondary School
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10077 Bayview Ave Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4C 2L4 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°52′41″N 79°24′55″W / 43.87800°N 79.41524°WCoordinates: 43°52′41″N 79°24′55″W / 43.87800°N 79.41524°W |
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| School type | High school International Baccalaureate World School |
| Motto | Friends Learning Together |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Secular |
| Founded | 1960 |
| School board | York Region District School Board |
| Superintendent | Helen Fox |
| Area trustee | Peter Luchowski |
| School number | 893978 |
| Principal | Brian Schouten |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2026 (October 2013) |
| Colour(s) | Red, white and black |
| Mascot | Bengals |
| Team name | Bayview Bengals |
| Website | www |
| Last updated: September 2014 | |
Bayview Secondary School is a grade 9–12, 2-semester secondary school operated by the York Region District School Board. It is located north of the northeast corner of Bayview Avenue and Major Mackenzie Drive in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Bayview S.S. was officially opened on March 10th,1960.
Bayview S.S. is named after the street on which it is located. Its 15-acre (61,000 m2) area used to be part of the Elliot farm.
According to the Fraser Institute, the school ranked 16th in Ontario in 2015. The school does not offer an AP program, though it does have a renowned IB program, open to students in York Region and beyond. Bayview S.S. ranked second nationally in the 2011 Euclid mathematics contest for grade 12 students held by the University of Waterloo.
Students of Bayview S.S. come from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In 2005, in the neighbourhood around Bayview Secondary School, about 40% of residents were of Chinese ethnic origin, 8.1% were of East Indian origin, and 5.9% were of Iranian origin.
Bayview S.S. had over 2000 students in September 2016. The York Region District School Board had not projected such a large enrollment at the beginning of the school year. The high enrollment was attributed to the 150 walk-in students at the beginning of the school year. Moreover, it was predicted that the student population would decrease that year because a new Catholic school was opened nearby, but enrollment went up instead of down.
Many parents were concerned that Bayview's enrollment would keep rising in the near future because new condominium buildings would be completed at the Bayview and Mackenzie area in 2011.
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme at Bayview is a competitive entry program founded 30 years ago that consists of approximately 110 students per grade living in York Region, who are selected based on their performance in a three-part entrance exam (testing mathematics, English, and French), their grade 7 final report card and a letter of teacher reference (no longer required after 2014). This programme targets students who are well-rounded and high achievers in all aspects of school. The entrance exam is written in the November of the students' grade 8 year, and the candidates are picked by the IB coordinator and school administration by January.
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