Bloor Collegiate Institute
| Bloor Collegiate Institute | |
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1141 Bloor Street West Brockton Village, Toronto, Ontario, M6H 1M9 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°39′33″N 79°26′13″W / 43.659292°N 79.436994°WCoordinates: 43°39′33″N 79°26′13″W / 43.659292°N 79.436994°W |
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| School type | Public, high school |
| Motto | "The Best in the West". Quod Incepimus Conficiemus (What We Have Begun, We Shall Finish.) |
| Founded | 1920 |
| School board |
Toronto District School Board (Toronto Board of Education) |
| Superintendent | Jane Phillips-Long |
| Area trustee | Marit Stiles |
| School number | 5505 / 895407 |
| Principal | Susana Arnott |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 665 (2016-17) |
| Language | English |
| Colour(s) | Maroon and Gold |
| Team name | Bloor Golden Bears |
| Public transit access |
TTC: North/South: 29 Dufferin Rapid Transit: Dufferin |
| Website | schools |
Bloor Collegiate Institute (Bloor CI, BCI , or Bloor, originally Davenport High School and Bloor High School) is a public secondary school located at the intersection of Bloor Street and Dufferin Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in the Dufferin Grove neighbourhood and part of the Toronto Board of Education that was merged into the Toronto District School Board. Attached to the school is Alpha II Alternative School.
In September 2017, the school will be relocated into the refurbished building in the former Brockton High School. The school building located in 7.6 acres is now transferred to the Toronto Lands Corporation, a TDSB-managed realtor arm.
The school was founded in 1920 as Davenport High School located in five classrooms on the top floor of the Jesse Ketchum Public School to form the first student body that became Bloor High School. It later became Bloor Collegiate Institute in October 1925, and the original building opened in 1927 had 15 standard classrooms, one lecture room, physics and science rooms.
In the 1970s, the school fielded sports teams in football, soccer, hockey, basketball, cricket, volleyball, rugby, cross-country running, track and field, and archery. Today, sports like Ultimate Frisbee, badminton have been added to the roster. Teams competed in the "junior" level (grades 9 and 10 students), and the "senior" level (grades 11 and 12 students).
In 2011, the school won more gold medals at the Toronto Sci-Tech Fair than any other school, and sent two students on to the national science fair. Both of these students were from the TOPS on Bloor Program.
The school was named as the TDSB secondary school showing the greatest rate of improvement in the 2011-2012 Fraser Institute Report. The school is now (2014-2015 ranking) ranked at 16 out of the 627 secondary schools in the province. Over the previous five years, the school had ranked at approximately 78. The improvement is credited in part to substantial improvements on the EQAO Mathematics Assessment, which is written by Grade 9 students. “That is a tremendous result for a school of modest-means families, where ESL is a strong component and special needs as well,” states Peter Cowley from the Fraser Institute.
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