Jasper Place High School
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8950-163 Street Edmonton, Alberta, T5R 2P2 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 53°31′31″N 113°36′15″W / 53.52528°N 113.60417°WCoordinates: 53°31′31″N 113°36′15″W / 53.52528°N 113.60417°W |
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| School type | Public High School |
| Motto | Serious about Success! |
| Founded | 1961–1963 |
| School board | Edmonton Public Schools |
| Principal | Jean Stiles |
| Grades | 10–12 |
| Enrollment | 2402 (2015-2016) |
| Colour(s) | Red, black and white |
| Team name | Rebels |
| Website | jasperplace |
Jasper Place High School is located in west end Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and is part of the Edmonton Public School System. It is the aim of the school to provide the widest selection of courses and programs, and thus meet the needs and preferences of the largest high school student body in the City of Edmonton.
In 2005, Maclean's Magazine chose Jasper Place High School as the top overall high school in all of Canada.In 2008, adding the methods used by the E.I.U's quality of life model, Jasper Place Ranked 1st in Canada, and 2nd in North America. In 2014, Strathcona High School was named 2nd best in Canada, but scored the same as Jasper Place, leading into a tie. However, on an international level, JP fared better than Scona and ranked as the #1 school in North America due to the I.B program. In comparison, Strathcona tailed at #4.
Jasper Place athletic teams are called the "Rebels".
Jasper Place High School offers a wide variety of programs and courses. The most notable of these are the full and partial International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) programs, as well as general Alberta curriculum studies. Jasper Place is the only Edmonton Public High School to offer both IB and AP. Jasper Place is also the only Edmonton school to offer Film Studies IB in addition to its many other IB courses. The school also has the largest offering of CTS courses in Edmonton and has developed a major focus on computers, having teamed up with NAIT, the University of Alberta, and Grant MacEwan in order to allow students to complete their high school courses and receive credit for introductory courses at these institutions.
Beginning in the 2008/2009 school year, students were able to take an additional daily class known as "Block Zero" beginning before school begins, from 8:05 to 8:50. This makes it a shorter block then regular classes (45 minutes compared to 1.5 hours). Courses offered include extra AP or IB science classes needed to get the full number of hours needed for the AP/IB Science courses, as well as extra physical education.
Beginning in the 2013–2014 school year, the school began offering Alternative Learning Opportunity (ALO) Days. The format of the days has varied depending on the year, as well as the semester. In the first semester that it was offered in, students could pick from a variety of courses that either lasted 1, 2 or 3 days (or a combination of courses so that they had 3 days worth of activities) that were spread out over the semester. This was changed in semester two of the same year to instead have two continuous days where the blocks were each 3 hours (all morning or all afternoon), in which students would go to their first and third block classes on the first day, and their second and fourth block classes on the second. In the 2014–2015 school year, the number of ALO days was increased to 5 a semester, and the format was again changed, to having students pick either one block, two blocks or all day sessions. The ALO Days have had controversy however, including from an Edmonton Journal columnist (who later had to apologize to the school), and have been marked with low attendance throughout.
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