Chinguacousy Secondary School
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| Chinguacousy Secondary School | |
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| Address | |
| 1370 Williams Parkway Brampton, Ontario, L6S 1V3, Canada |
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| Website | |
| http://chinguacousyss.peelschools.org/ | |
| Information | |
| School board | Peel District School Board |
| Religious affiliation | none |
| Superintendent | Paul Jones |
| Area trustee | Daljit Gill |
| Principal | Carol Speers |
| Vice principal | Lionel Klotz, Maureen Royle |
| School type | Public high school |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Language | English |
| Team name | Chiefs |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Enrollment | 1,532 (September 2005) |
Chinguacousy Secondary School (pronounced: [ˈtʃɪŋˌku:zi] listen ) is a high school located in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Chinguacousy Secondary School is one of the major highschools in the Bramalea area. Since 2000, the school's enrollment has expanded dramatically with the development of the surrounding area.
The school's hours are 8:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.. The school runs a schedule based on five periods of one hour and fifteen minutes in length.
It is well known for their school sports teams and athletic programs, particularly for rugby, having won multiple consecutive titles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Chinguacousy is increasingly becoming strongly competitive in basketball and has won several titles since 2000.
In 2002, Chinguacousy made the headlines for a string of pepper spray incidents during the fall months. The substance had been sprayed into the air of busy hallways, resulting in many students reporting respiratory problems and causing authorities to initially suspect it to be a gassing attack and police to send in the bomb squad. The school was evacuated over ten times during the course of two months (sometimes more than once in a single day) until the Peel Regional Police were able to arrest the culprits—two students looking to get out of class—with the help of tips to Crimestoppers.
On November 9, 2005, an 18-year-old student was shot in the parking lot of Chinguacousy Secondary School shortly before 8:00 a.m., when classes begin. The student managed to make it to the front office, where an ambulance was called. The shooting was not fatal. Students at the school were forced to undergo lock down procedure for the majority of the day as SWAT teams searched the school for the shooter. The shooter was not found and it is postulated that he was probably not a student at the school. The event was met with a public outcry regarding the increasing violence between ethnic gangs in the school and in the general area of Brampton, Ontario.
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