St. Marguerite d'Youville Secondary School
| St. Marguerite d'Youville Secondary School | |
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| Address | |
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10815 Dixie Road Brampton, Ontario, L6R 2W5 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°45′08″N 79°46′36″W / 43.75226°N 79.77662°WCoordinates: 43°45′08″N 79°46′36″W / 43.75226°N 79.77662°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Separate Secondary School |
| Motto | To Trust, To Risk, To Love, To Serve |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Founded | 1995 |
| School board | Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board |
| Superintendent | Les Storey |
| Area trustee | Joyce Anderson |
| Principal | Silvana Gos |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Enrollment | 1993 (As of October 31, 2009) |
| Language | English, programs include French Spanish |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Area | Brampton—Springdale |
| Colour(s) | Blue and Black |
| Team name | Panther |
| Website | www |
St. Marguerite d'Youville Secondary School (sometimes referred to as d'Youville or abbreviated to d'Y) is a school in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB). It is a Catholic high school located in Brampton, Ontario.
The current three level school building at 10815 Dixie Road North in Brampton was built in 2002 and opened for classes in September 2002. It replaced an older, smaller facility at 115 Glenvale Boulevard the school was previously located at.
The old school building, today a holding school location known as the "Glenvale Campus", began construction in 1975. It was originally occupied by St. Thomas Aquinas SS from September 1976 until they moved into a new larger school building nearby in 1992. After, Robert F. Hall CSS students that previously attended Notre Dame CSS occupied it from September 1992 until their new building in Caledon was complete. St. Marguerite d'Youville CSS was formed and commenced classes at the Glenvale location starting in September 1995, and continued to reside there until the end of the 2001/2002 school year. By this time, the small two level building was at capacity, with students being bussed in to the location from other parts of Brampton, numerous portables providing additional classroom space, and the potential for even more school enrollment as Brampton continued to expand to the north.
Back in 1999, the DPCDSB initially considered a plan with the public board to include St. Marguerite d'Youville (then searching for a new site) in a dual-school campus in the Springdale community. It would have been the first of five such facilities planned, in order to save on the costs of building new separate school facilities, according to studies conducted in 1997. This campus would have included both public and catholic schools using shared facilities, and also a community centre and park, and was to be located at the intersection of Sandalwood Parkway and Dixie Road. A number of student, security, vehicular congestion and school rivalry concerns were brought up with the plan, and it was ultimately voted down by Brampton's planning board in January 2000. Then-Mayor Peter Robertson called for the Ontario Education Minister to intervene, and accused the DPCDSB of bailing out due to a possible loss of identity on a campus with a public school. A representative from the DPCDSB however citied concerns with the pressing issue of overcrowding at their existing schools, and the ability of the board to build a new school on a separate site to the north quicker on their own than in a joint venture, which would take an extra year or longer to design and build.
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