Martingrove Collegiate Institute

Martingrove Collegiate Institute

"The Light is Within You"
Address
50 Winterton Drive
Toronto, Ontario, M9B 3G7
Canada
Coordinates 43°40′24″N 79°33′39″W / 43.673406°N 79.560810°W / 43.673406; -79.560810Coordinates: 43°40′24″N 79°33′39″W / 43.673406°N 79.560810°W / 43.673406; -79.560810
Information
School type High School
Founded May 28, 1966
School board Toronto District School Board
Superintendent Susan Winter
Area trustee Chris Glover (Ward 2)
School number 2804
Principal Randy Palermo
Grades 9 - 12
Enrollment 1,166 (Nov. 30 2015)
Language English
Area Martin Grove Road and Eglinton Avenue
Colour(s) Brown, White and Orange             
Mascot Bear
Team name Martingrove Bears
Website schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/martingrove/Home.aspx

Martingrove Collegiate Institute (MCI) is a non-semestered public secondary school located on the southeast corner at the intersection of Eglinton Avenue and Martin Grove Road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is overseen by the Toronto District School Board. The school is home to the gifted program in Etobicoke. The school has held reunions for its 25th, 30th, and 40th (June 2006) anniversaries, and has their 50th anniversary celebrations planned for May 11–14, 2016.[1]

Martingrove's school colours are brown, white and orange and its mascot is a bear. The school's motto is Lumen in vobis est (The Light is Within You). The student-run newsmagazine The Martingrove Beacon, has, since its creation in 2002, won 15 Toronto Star High School Newspaper awards. In 2011, Fraser Institute ranked Martingrove among the top high schools in Toronto.[2]

Martingrove Collegiate Institute has fostered a reputation as a high-performance facility. Over 80% of graduating students enter post-secondary institutions and two thirds of graduates are Ontario Scholars.[3]

Early History

Construction of the school began on May 27, 1966, but by the Fall of 1966 it was still not ready to accept students. All Martingrove students were bused to Burnhamthorpe C.I. for the Fall Term where they shared the school in a "split-shift" with the regular Burnhamthorpe students. The Martingrove students had the afternoon shift, the BCI students had the morning shift. This continued until after the Christmas break when the school was ready for occupancy.

Gifted Program

Martingrove is the TDSB designated high school for the Gifted Program in Etobicoke.[4]

Reach for the Top

MCI has a long history of participation in the high school quiz program Reach for the Top. They have won numerous local, regional and provincial tournaments, with appearances at both the provincial and national level finals. For many years the team was coached by teacher Patricia Beecham, who would go on to work as a co-ordinator and head judge for the Reach for the Top / Schoolreach organization[5] Notable Victories:

Model U.N.

Martingrove is host to one of the largest Model United Nations in Ontario, running the annual 2-day event since 1986.[9] The event draws on hundreds of students across the Toronto District School Board, as well as notable guest speakers such as Bob Rae (former Ontario Premier), Allan Rock (Former Justice Minister) and Jean Chrétien.[10]

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://issuu.com/theetobicokeguardian/docs/eto_c_feb25
  2. ↑ http://www.torontoneighbourhoods.net/blog/2011/03/toronto-high-school-rankings
  3. ↑ http://www.tdsb.on.ca/Findyour/Schools.aspx?schno=2804
  4. ↑ http://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/martingrove/SpecialPrograms/GiftedandtheAPProgram.aspx
  5. ↑ http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=162&t=15865
  6. ↑ http://www.tdsb.on.ca/News/ArticleDetails/TabId/116/ArtMID/474/ArticleID/338/Martingrove-CI-wins-Reach-for-the-Top-Provincial-Title.aspx
  7. ↑ http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/4550150-martingrove-ci-clinches-title-at-reach-for-the-top-quiz-competition/
  8. ↑ http://www.reachforthetop.com/
  9. ↑ http://martingrovemodelun.com/archives/
  10. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20150705185946/http://www.tdsb.on.ca/about_us/media_room/Room.asp?show=allNews&view=detailed&self=24317. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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