McKinnon Park Secondary School

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McKinnon Park Secondary School
Address
91 Haddington Street Caledonia , Ontario , N3W 2H2 Canada
Coordinates	43°03′48″N 79°57′23″W / 43.063464°N 79.956415°W / 43.063464; -79.956415Coordinates: 43°03′48″N 79°57′23″W / 43.063464°N 79.956415°W / 43.063464; -79.956415
Information
School type	Public, high school
Motto	Tradition with Change
Founded	Early 1990s
School board	Grand Erie District School Board
Principal	Mrs. Krueger
Vice Principal	Mr. Burroughs
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	900+ (October 30, 2009)
Language	English
Area	Caledonia, Ontario
Color(s)	Blue and Gold
Mascot	Blue Devil
Team name	Blue Devils
Website	www.granderie.ca/schools/mpss

McKinnon Park Secondary School is a high school in the town of Caledonia, Ontario. It replaced Caledonia High School for the school year 1992/1993, which was converted into . The school contains a gymnasium, cafeteria, workshop, library, day care centre, three science labs, twelve portables, an exercise room, music room, drama room, art room, guidance office, and five computer labs. There is a greenhouse in a courtyard located in the east quad. The surrounding grounds contain a baseball field, a soccer field and a football field with a track surrounding it. The fields are used by youth soccer teams during the sport seasons. The school is in close proximity to the new HCCC (arena)/library/Lions Hall and baseball diamond. It temporarily served as a home to the new population of in fall 1991 while renovations and an expansion were created, it also held a "church" congregation as their "church" was being built. This was strange because MPSS is a public school. It is home to the SHSM (Specialist High Schools Major) program offering red seals (upon completion of the requirements) at graduation in hospitality, green industries, and construction. In the school year 2016–2017, all but two of the schools sports teams won their zones and progressed so SOSSA. Two of these teams (football and track and field) progressed to OFSSA.

Due to the large number of Indigenous students attending the school, classes such as Cayuga language, native history, and native arts are offered. It also runs the Hockey Canada Skills Academy program at the HCCC during both semesters. There are three types of classes offered in the arts program: drama, music (including instrumental and guitar), and art (including visual art, media art, and photography). There are various communications, business and computer programming courses offered along with a full array of maths and sciences. As far as extracurricular clubs, there is the concert band, interact club, both general and executive students council (the executive attends OSLC every year), anime club, drama club, reach for the top, crime stoppers, yearbook, and many others. Sports teams include: lacrosse, badminton, cross country, hockey, basketball, volleyball, soccer, track and field, and tennis.

The 2018/2019 academic year saw over 900 students enrolled. The school is home to the largest Indigenous student body in the Grand Erie School District, at 29% or 260 students as of 2018/19. Most of these students come from the nearby Six Nations of the Grand River.^[1]

See also[]

• List of high schools in Ontario

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