Ridgemont High School (Ottawa)

Ridgemont High School
Knowledge is Power
Address
2597 Alta Vista Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, K1V 7T3, Canada
Information
School board Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Religious affiliation None
Principal Richard King
Vice principal Shannon Adams,
Ann Taillon
Administrator Brenda Beattie
Chief custodian Dale Lusk
Staff 91 (2005)
Grades 9 to 12
Language English and French
Area Ottawa South
Campus Suburban
Mascot Spartan
Team name Ridgemont Spartans
Colours Green, White, Grey             
Founded 1958
Enrolment 850 (2005)
Feeder schools Roberta Bondar Public School, Alta Vista Public School, Featherston Public School, Elizabeth Park Public School, Blossom Park Public School
Homepage http://ridgemonths.ocdsb.ca/

Ridgemont High School. It is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Canada. The school is located at 2597 Alta Vista Drive in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of Ottawa. It is next door to St. Patrick's High School, a Roman Catholic high school, and Charles Hulse Elementary School, also in the OCDSB.

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History

Work began on Ridgemont in 1957 when Prime Minister John Diefenbaker laid the cornerstone. The school opened the next year, one of a series of composite schools built by the Ottawa Collegiate Board during the 1950s and 1960s to deal with the baby boom and increasing school attendance. Ridgemont was planned and designed at the same time as Rideau High School and Laurentian High School. Ridgemont opened a year earlier than the other two.

Ridgemont is a semestered school offering many programs, such as French immersion, English as a Second Language, ECL (Everyday Community Living), and international languages (Somali, Arabic, Spanish).

Ridgemont derives the basis of its population from the surrounding neighbourhoods of Ottawa South. The Alta Vista, Ledbury, and South Keys areas of Ottawa South all feed into the school. Ridgemont is known for its high ethnic diversity: there are over 40 different languages spoken by the 850 students at the school.

Ridgemont is twinned with Bokoro High School, Butha-Buthe, Lesotho. This twinning is helped by the organization Help Lesotho and aims to promote literacy.

Ridgemont's 50th Anniversary was celebrated on October 5 and 6, 2007, with a reunion of school alumni.

Student Clubs and Committees

Athletics Teams

Notable alumni

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ Profile of Dr. Ian Affleck; www.physics.ubc.ca.
  2. ^ Profile of Ken Anderson; www.deltamedia.ca.
  3. ^ New York Times, October 31, 1982, Anne Balcer Is Married; www.nytimes.com.
  4. ^ Profile of Phil Bova; www.sageelectronics.ca.
  5. ^ Filmography of Christopher Hargadon; www.imdb.com.
  6. ^ Profile of Thomas Houston; www.fmc-law.com.
  7. ^ See, for example, Rob Khurana Filmography; www.imdb.com; see also www.robkhurana.com.
  8. ^ Jaime Vernon, with notes from Richard Patterson, Tim Morawetz and Greg Simpson,Profile of Colleen Peterson. The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia; www.jam.canoe.ca.
  9. ^ Colleen Peterson MySpace Page; www.myspace.com.
  10. ^ Profile of Professor Holly Small; www.yorku.ca.
  11. ^ Death Notice for Michael Taylor; www.legacy.com.
  12. ^ Tim Wynne Jones Official Website; www.timwynne-jones.com.

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