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Lisgar Collegiate

Lisgar Collegiate Institute
Lisgar Collegiate Institute logo.jpg
Address
29 Lisgar Street
Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0B9
Canada
Coordinates 45°25′14.2″N 75°41′17.0″W / 45.420611°N 75.688056°W / 45.420611; -75.688056Coordinates: 45°25′14.2″N 75°41′17.0″W / 45.420611°N 75.688056°W / 45.420611; -75.688056
Information
Funding type Public
Motto Alere Flammam
(Nourish the Flame)
Founded 1843
School board Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Superintendent Walter Piovesan
Area trustee Jennifer McKenzie
Administrator Kim Ironmonger-Wong
Principal Patsy Agard
Vice Principals Ashley Shaw
Matt Gagnier
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 1100
Campus Urban
Colour(s) Blue, Silver         
Team name Lords
Newspaper Lisgarwrite
Yearbook Vox Lycei
Communities served Sandy Hill, New Edinburgh, Centretown, Rockcliffe Park, Ontario
Public transit access Transitway stations Laurier and Mackenzie King. Also served by routes 5, 6, and 14
School presidents Gabriel Sher
Jonathan Chen
Website

Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Lisgar Collegiate Institute, one of the country's best regarded public schools, is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal and is only a few blocks from Canada's Parliament Hill. The school serves the neighbourhoods of Sandy Hill, New Edinburgh, Centretown, and Rockcliffe Park, and has many students transferring from other areas, attracted by the school's reputation and prestige. In previous years, parents and students have camped out overnight to secure a "coveted transfer spot" to Lisgar, causing some controversy in the news. Lisgar is known for its gifted student program, and was ranked number one for public schools in Ottawa and 12th in the province by the Fraser Institute in 2008. Its Reach for the Top team won the Canadian national finals in the 2008 and 2015 seasons. Lisgar has also won the National and International Whiz Quiz Trivia Challenge for the past two years Lisgar's Improv team is also well known for its continued excellence in the Canadian Improv Games, winning the National Tournament back to back in 1999 and 2000 and qualifying for the Canadian National tournament every year since 2004. Lisgar is also home to the student-run Ottawa-Carleton Educational Space Simulation.

In 1843, a grammar school with 40 paying students was opened in the Sandy Hill area of Ottawa in a house at the corner of Waller Street and Daly Avenue. In 1859, the school became one of the first in Ontario to admit girls. The school changed locations several times in the first few years, and was renamed first Bytown Grammar School and later Ottawa Grammar School. In 1871 the school was raised to a high school and in 1873 to a collegiate institute, becoming Ottawa Collegiate Institute.


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