St. Paul High School (Ottawa)
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2675 Draper Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 7A1 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 45°20′30″N 75°47′34″W / 45.341741°N 75.792779°WCoordinates: 45°20′30″N 75°47′34″W / 45.341741°N 75.792779°W |
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| School type | Separate high school |
| Motto | Fill Your Minds With All That Is True |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Catholic |
| Founded | 1978 |
| School board | Ottawa Catholic School Board |
| Area trustee | Elaine McMahon |
| Principal | Geoffrey Edwards |
| Chaplain | Sean McElhinney |
| Teaching staff | 65 |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Number of students | 950 (2016) |
| Language | English, French |
| Hours in school day | 6 |
| Colour(s) | Gold, Blue, White |
| Mascot | Golden Bear |
| Team name | St. Paul Golden Bears |
| Yearbook | Odyssey |
| School fees | $30 |
| Website | pah |
St. Paul High School is a Catholic high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The school originally opened in 1978 under the name Bells Corners Senior Elementary School. It was located at 411 Seyton Drive in the Bells Corners neighbourhood in the city of Nepean, Ontario. Delays in construction meant that the school was late in opening, students were not able to move in until October. Students spent the first month attending classes at their old schools. The school community asked that the school be renamed after Saint Paul, and the name was changed within the first year.
At first, it was a junior high school only, but after several years of renovations and adding more grades one by one each year, it finally opened as a full high school serving grades 7 through OAC in September 1987. It also adopted the new motto of "Fill Your Minds With All That Is True" at the same time. The school colours of brown and gold had to be replaced because they were the same as those of nearby Bell High School at the other end of Bells Corners. The colours of gold, blue and white took their place.
The following school year, 1988–1989, the school underwent another construction project. The portables were moved into the parking lot, leaving an empty space closer to the building. During the course of the year, a new ten classroom building was constructed, called the portapak. Construction finished around May 1989 and some classes were moved in from the portables.
At the beginning of the 1989-1990 school year, four more portables arrived, bringing the total (including the ten rooms in the portapak) to almost thirty. During this year, construction took place on Holy Trinity High School in the nearby city of Kanata. Holy Trinity was being built with the intention of reducing the level of overcrowding at St. Paul's.
Although Holy Trinity was supposed to open in time for the 1990 school year, a strike of the construction workers put the school behind schedule, and it wasn't ready when school began. The solution that was employed was to have the building on Seyton Drive serve as both schools temporarily. Students attending St. Paul's went in the morning, starting classes an hour earlier than usual, and finished at noon. Students attending Holy Trinity attended during the afternoon. This continued for two months, until Holy Trinity was finally ready to open at the beginning of November.
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