Rideau High School

Rideau High School

Address
815 St. Laurent Boulevard Ottawa, Ontario, K1K 3A7 Canada
Coordinates	45°26′05″N 75°38′32″W / 45.434721°N 75.642339°W / 45.434721; -75.642339Coordinates: 45°26′05″N 75°38′32″W / 45.434721°N 75.642339°W / 45.434721; -75.642339
Information
Founded	1958
School board	Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Principal	Geordie Walker
Enrollment	550^[1] (2013)
Campus	urban
Colour(s)	Blue and White
Mascot	Ram
Team name	Rams
Feeder schools	Queen Elizabeth Public School, York Street Public School, Henry Munro Middle School
Website	www.rideauhigh.ca

Rideau High School [Website] is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada . It is located at 815 St. Laurent Boulevard in the east end of the city on the edge of Vanier. It is located next to the Queen Elizabeth elementary school.

History

The school opened in 1958 under Principal E. D. Hendry. It was the second of a series of ten high schools built by the school board to cope with rapidly rising attendance and the baby boom. The project generated some controversy as the Collegiate Board presented a plan that included an auditorium, double gym, and a cafeteria. The Ottawa Property Owners association objected to these as expensive and unneeded luxuries, and the mayor Charlotte Whitton agreed. The dispute delayed the construction of the school for some time.

In 1971-72, Rideau High School concert and stage bands produced an album.

In an October 6, 2009 report by the OCDSB, closure of the school was recommended, with its current students to be redirected to Gloucester High School.^[2] and incoming students to be re-directed to Lisgar Collegiate Institute (English) or Glebe Collegiate Institute (French Immersion). The school remained open because OCDSB board members voted December 7, 2009 to reject the recommendation.

Rideau was designed to hold 800 students. The enrolment fell to about 550 students by 2013, with the rest of the building populated by the children of the two daycares and the adult English programs.

Architecture

It was built at the same time as Laurentian High School and Ridgemont High School and has the same base design by architects Hazelgrove, Lithwick and Lambert with well-lit efficient circulation, and a large auditoria. The double gymnasium block projected into a large sports field and oval track.^[3] For adults, commercial and business classes were offered in the evenings. There are tennis courts, a large parking lot, well equipped science labs, technical shops and a library. There are two storey t-shaped wings for classrooms, with the gym, auditorium and cafeteria in bumped out blocks. The building was constructed of orange-buff brick with contrasting brick in perpendicular bars on the fly over the auditorium stage. At Rideau the auditorium stage fly was decorated at the corners in contrasting brick. There were horizontal bands of windows in silver aluminum, which were later retrofitted with tinted glass in brown anodyzed frames. An entrance forecourt is reached by a circular drive. The main door is through a vestibule set at an angle between a classroom wing and the cafeteria block. The school's most architecturally interesting feature is a smokestack with a heavy fire door at the base for cleaning out the ash and soot.^[4]

The school was renovated in the early 1990s at the cost of several million dollars.

Programs

It is a mixed stream school offering Academic(advanced), Applied(general) and Essential level courses. The school also has a significant English as a Second Language program, with 63.2% of the student population enrolled. Its specialization in ESL programs makes it one of the most multicultural schools in the city. Rideau also has programs for special needs students (with a population of 21.3% of students enrolled)^[5] and strong technological programming.

References

↑ "School Profile 2012‐2013: Rideau High School" (PDF). Ottawa Carleton District School Board. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
↑ "Rideau High School should close: report". CBC News. October 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
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↑ "Rideau Highschool Ottawa Ontario Academic ranking". Fraser Institute. 2012–2013. Retrieved 6 September 2014.

Keith, Janet. The Collegiate Institute Board of Ottawa: A Short History, 1843-1969. Ottawa: Kent, 1969.

External links

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board schools

Secondary schools	A.Y.Jackson Secondary School Adult High School Bell High School Brookfield High School Cairine Wilson Secondary School Canterbury High School Colonel By Secondary School Earl of March Secondary School Glebe Collegiate Institute Gloucester High School Hillcrest High School John McCrae Secondary School Lisgar Collegiate Institute Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School Merivale High School Nepean High School Osgoode Township High School Ottawa Technical Learning Centre Rideau High School Ridgemont High School Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School Sir Robert Borden High School Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School South Carleton High School West Carleton Secondary School Woodroffe High School

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