Bishop Allen Academy
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721 Royal York Road Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario, M8Y 2T3 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°38′02″N 79°30′17″W / 43.63389°N 79.50472°WCoordinates: 43°38′02″N 79°30′17″W / 43.63389°N 79.50472°W |
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| School type | Bill 30 Catholic High school |
| Motto | Gaudete in Domino (Rejoice in the Lord) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Founded | 1989 |
| School board | Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) |
| Superintendent | Douglas Yack Area 2 |
| Area trustee | Ann Andarchuk Ward 2 |
| School number | 549 / 689360 |
| Principal | Stephen Carey |
| Vice Principals | Marguerite Moynihan Martin Clough |
| CSPC Chairs (2016-17) | Susan Brenders |
| Staff | 120 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1605 (2016-17) |
| Language | English, French (French only mandatory for grade 9) |
| Schedule type | Semestered |
| Slogan | Service, Academics, Tradition, Community |
| Team name | Bishop Allen Cardinals |
| Gym Uniform | Red Shirt, Black Shorts, And White |
| Regular Uniform | Summer: Dark Grey Pants, Navy Blue Shirt, All Black Shoes Winter: Dark Grey Pants, White Dress Shirt, All Black Shoes |
| Parish | Our Lady of Sorrows |
| Program Focus |
Advanced Placement French Immersion Gifted |
| Website | bishopallen |
Bishop Allen Academy (officially Bishop Allen Academy Catholic Secondary School, alternatively as Bishop Allen, Bishop Allen Academy CSS, BAA, BAACSS, BA or Allen), is a high school located in the The Queensway – Humber Bay neighbourhood in the Etobicoke area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Bishop Allen Academy site is situated on 14½ acres on a ravine that runs parallel to the Mimico Creek. It was part of the original piece of land surveyed in the township of Etobicoke in 1793 by local developer Frederick Davidson which was set aside for the use of the government mill or the King's Mill located at the first rapids upstream from Lake Ontario and was later used for his 'Brookwood' estate . The house was eventually demolished in 1961 and the Etobicoke Board of Education constructed Kingsmill Secondary School (named after the Old 'King's' Mill) in 1962 designed by the architectural firm of Gordon S. Adamson & Associates on the 721 Royal York Road building just south of Royal York Collegiate Institute (now used today as Etobicoke School of the Arts). The school was opened in October 1963.
Kingsmill was one of three schools to be declared surplus by the Etobicoke Board of Education in June 1988 because of low enrollment and was transferred to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Toronto Catholic District School Board) on July 1, 1988 which reopened the school a year later in September 1989 as Bishop Allen Academy during a period of reorganization of the Catholic school boards after the extension of full funding to Catholic secondary schools in 1984. The area had previously been served by Etobicoke's first Catholic secondary schools in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish; Michael Power school for boys and St. Joseph's, Islington for girls which, having combined, moved from the area in the 1990s. Before it opened, it was used at one point as the temporary home of De La Salle College for its 850 students in early 1989 because of the flood caused by student vandalism in their own building.
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