St. Mary's High School (Kitchener)
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St. Mary's High School is a Catholic secondary school in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It serves most of Kitchener's Catholic students, with some others attending Resurrection Catholic Secondary School. Members of its sports teams are known as the Eagles.
The school was originally located in the city's downtown, where it was founded as the girls' school to complement the boys-only St. Jerome's High School next door. As the latter school had older infrastructure, it was closed and St. Mary's was made co-ed. In 2002, the school moved from the downtown to the southern suburbs, where there would be far less commuting time for most students.
The former school buildings have been given differing fates: one auxiliary building is being demolished; the main St. Jerome's facility is being renovated to house Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Social Work; and the main St. Mary's building will house both the Catholic School Board offices, and the Kitchener Downtown Community Centre.
In the autumn of 2004, a new branch of the Kitchener Public Library opened within the new school building.
The school's fall 2005 enrolment is 2,200 students,however ended up only being 2,077 by the end of the year.This population was still far higher than the anticipated capacity; 25 portable classrooms are currently installed on the grounds, and no student parking is available due to the need for faculty parking.
The new school building features a Triple Gym, an auditorium known as allumni hall, as well as a large cafeteria. The school also houses tennis courts and 2 soccer/football fields. There used to be basketball courts at the school, but they are now taken up by portables.
Many events have occured at the new school since its opening in 2002. These events include a bomb scare in 2004, a fire in the central stairwell in 2005, as well as a chemical scare in 2006. The people who caused these events have never been caught.
St.Mary's sports teams do very well at competitions. For the most part, St.Marys has has won many competitions in the past 4 years. These include the Jr. Boys Soccer team winning the 2006 OFFSA championships. In recent years, every team has one at least a COWWSA championship, with the exception of the football team.
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