| Oakridge Secondary School | |
| Bleed red, blue, and gold | |
| Address | |
| 1040 Oxford Street, West London, Ontario, N6H 1V4, Canada |
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| Information | |
| School board | Thames Valley District School Board |
| Principal | Grant McCumber |
| Vice principal | Jane Lashbrooke-Sherman |
| School type | Secondary, government-operated/public |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Language | English |
| Mascot | Oak Leaf |
| Colours | White, Blue |
| Founded | 1959 |
| Homepage | http://www.tvdsb.ca/oakridge.cfm/ http://gooaks.com/index.html |
Oakridge Secondary School is one of the many government-operated High Schools (as opposed to Collegiate Institutes) in London, Ontario. Oakridge has over 1000 students and is located on Oxford Street in west London. Their nickname is the Oakridge Oaks and the school's colours are red, blue, and gold. It is known for its academics, community involvement, arts programs, and sports teams, particularly the boys volleyball team, who have won OFSAA before. The school's football team has grown over the last several seasons under the leadership of Head Coach Mike Darling. The senior team played in TVRAA's "C" Division in 2007 and are now an "A" Division team by 2009 thanks to junior Head Coach Austin Scarpelli. Also in the fall of 2009, the junior team (only in its third season of existence) won the TVRAA City Championships. Oakridge's Senior boy's basketball team has also been very successful. The team attended 7 straight OFSAA championships in a row, with their streak finally coming to a drought in 2011. In 2009 the Junior boys Oakridge Cross Country won TVRAA. In the fall of 2009, the school put on a major dramatic arts production of Disney's High School Musical 2. The school repeatedly scores as one of the top secondary schools in London, and is currently ranked second (based on provincial tests and examinations).
Following the retirement of Christine Stewart, Grant McCumber became Principal of Oakridge in September 2009. He had previously served as Prinicipal at Sir George Ross Secondary School in east London. Oakridge celebrated its 50th anniversary in October 2009, holding a reunion for all past and present Oaks during the Thanksgiving long weekend.
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Founded as a county school in 1959, Oakridge High School became Oakridge Secondary School when London annexed a large part of the surrounding countryside in 1960. The school became the first in London to adopt three colours: red, blue and gold. This became just one of many firsts in the years to come. For its first quarter century, the city's west end academic school naturally attracted some of London's brightest and best young people.
Pride in achievement, however, was never limited just to scholastics. Athletics, the arts, and community involvement distinguish the school in competition, performance, and in strong community support. Its stability encouraged a large financial investment in modernizing and upgrading the physical plant in a major renovation during 1994-95. Few would recognize the old school today. Even fewer would recognize the school's original Latin moto "Nostrum viret robur" (Our strength grows as the Oaks). Yet the undeniable strength of Oakridge has been the outstanding leadership demonstrated by students, staff, and administration over its first fifty years.
The Fraser Institute’s ratings and rankings of Ontario schools assist parents when they choose a school and encourage educators and parents seeking to improve Ontario schools. Each Fraser Institute report card collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual Ontario schools. The following indicates Oakridge Secondary School's performance for the 2009-2010 academic year, indicating a rating of 8.1 out of 10 and ranking 41st out of 727 schools.
| OSSLT count | 272 |
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| ESL (%) | 4.0 |
| Special Needs (%) | 9.9 |
| Parents' Average Income ($) | 98,100 |
| Performance Measure | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg. level Gr 9 Math (Academic) | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | — |
| Avg. level Gr 9 Math (Applied) | 2.7 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.6 | — |
| OSSLT passed (%)-FTE | 94.0 | 94.0 | 93.1 | 92.9 | 93.1 | Up |
| OSSLT passed (%)-PE | 75.0 | 73.9 | 63.6 | 64.7 | 82.8 | — |
| Tests below standard (%) | 14.0 | 17.4 | 16.5 | 16.7 | 11.4 | — |
| Gender gap (level)-Math | E | E | M 0.1 | M 0.1 | M 0.1 | — |
| Gender gap OSSLT | M 0.2 | M 1.7 | F 2.1 | F 1.8 | F 5.1 | Down |
| Gr 9 tests not written (%) | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.8 | — |
| Overall rating out of 10 | 8.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 8.1 | — |
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