Forest Lawn High School

Forest Lawn High School
Viator Via Veritatis "Travel by way of the truth"
Address
1304 - 44 Street S.E. Calgary, Alberta, T2A 1M8 Canada
Coordinates	51°02′28″N 113°58′12″W / 51.041°N 113.970°W / 51.041; -113.970Coordinates: 51°02′28″N 113°58′12″W / 51.041°N 113.970°W / 51.041; -113.970
Information
School type	High school
School board	Calgary Board of Education
Superintendent	Dr. Naomi Johnson
Area trustee	Pamela King
School number	b813
Principal	Darren Dyck
Grades	10/11/12
Enrollment	1462 (September 2014)
• Grade 10	438
• Grade 11	417
• Grade 12	607
Language	English
Area	Area III
Colour(s)	Red, Gold and White
Mascot	Titans
Team name	The Forest Lawn Titans
Communities served	Forest Lawn Abbeydale, Albert Park, Applewood Park, Dover, Erin Woods, Forest Heights, Marlborough, Marlborough Park, Penbrooke Meadows, Pineridge, Radisson Heights, Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Home Park, Rundle, Southview, Red Stone and Skyview Ranch
Website	schools.cbe.ab.ca/b813/default.htm

Forest Lawn High School is a high school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the southeast community of Forest Lawn. The senior high school has sports teams, who are known as the Titans, drama productions, dance, band, and choir. The school is located on 44th street, and is near Ernest Morrow Junior High, Jack James Senior High, Bob Bahan Memorial Pool, and Ernie Star Arena.

Forest Lawn serves the communities of Abbeydale, Albert Park, Applewood Park, Dover, Erin Woods, Forest Heights, Forest Lawn, Marlborough, Marlborough Park, Penbrooke Meadows, Pineridge, Radisson Heights, Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Home Park, Rundle, Southview, Temple, and Whitehorn. Junior high feeder schools to Forest Lawn High School are Ernest Morrow, Ian Bazalgette, Langevin, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Dr. Gladys McKelvie Egbert,Bob Edwards, Clarence Sansom, Dr. Gordon Higgins, Annie Gale.

About the school

The school was built in 1968 and is situated on 25.0 acres. The school has 84 classrooms, a full commercial foods kitchen, a cosmetology program and a full automotives service program featuring auto-mechanics, auto-body and welding courses at all three grade levels. Forest Lawn also offers Advanced Placement course and a full range of academic and complementary courses. The school was named after the community that it serves (Forest Lawn). Student and staff inside the school must carry their School Photo ID as other Calgary high schools.

BP Canada and Forest Lawn High School have been partners in education for over a decade. This award-winning partnership encourages students to pursue their goals and learn life skills through school curriculum and activities. BP offers both financial and volunteer support that helps students develop skills that are necessary for the successful transition from education to employment.

The school provides French/ Spanish and English language as a primary language instruction. Forest Lawn is one of a small number of Calgary high schools to offer an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme Each year, about 20-40 students graduate with an IB Diploma[citation needed], and significantly more graduate with an IB certificate.[citation needed] The school also offers an extensive performing and visual arts program, and offers a certificate to recognize students that have made fine arts a focus of learning at the high school level.

External links

Forest Lawn High School Official site

High Schools in Calgary

Catholic	Bishop Carroll High School Bishop Grandin High School Bishop McNally High School Bishop O'Byrne High School Father Lacombe High School Notre Dame High School Our Lady of Lourdes School St Anne Senior High School St Francis High School St. Mary's High School

Public	Alternative High School Bowness High School Career and Technology Centre CBe-learn Centennial High School Central Memorial High School Crescent Heights High School Dr E P Scarlett High School Ernest Manning High School Forest Lawn High School Henry Wise Wood Senior High School Jack James High School James Fowler High School John G. Diefenbaker High School Juno Beach Academy of Canadian Studies Lester B. Pearson High School Lord Beaverbrook High School Louise Dean Centre National Sport School (Canada) Plains Indian Cultural School Queen Elizabeth High School Robert Thirsk High School Sir William Van Horne High School Sir Winston Churchill High School Western Canada High School William Aberhart High School

Francophone	École de la Rose sauvage École Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys

Private	Bearspaw Christian School Calgary Academy Calgary Christian High School Calgary French and International School Calgary Islamic School Foundations for the Future Charter Academy Heritage Christian Academy Lycée Louis Pasteur Master's Academy & College Rundle College High School Webber Academy West Island College

Other	Alberta High School of Fine Arts Beiseker Community School Bert Church High School Bow Valley High School Chestermere High School Cochrane High School Foothills Composite High School Foundations for the Future Charter Academy George McDougall High School Holy Cross Collegiate Holy Trinity Academy Rocky View Learning Connections St. Gabriel The Archangel St Martin de Porres High School St. Timothy High School Springbank Community High School Strathmore High School W G Murdoch High School Westmount Charter School

See Also Calgary Board of Education Calgary Catholic School District Rocky View Schools

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