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Bev Facey Community High School, known as Bev Facey, is a public high school for grades 10–12 in Sherwood Park, Strathcona County, Alberta, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Elk Island Public Schools Regional Division No. 14.
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History
Bev Facey Community High School was opened in 1981 by the County of Strathcona No. 20 (now Strathcona County), which was responsible for school provision between 1962 and 1994. In 1994 the Strathcona County schools were split off to form Elk Island Public Schools Regional Division No. 14, commonly known as Elk Island Public Schools.
Bev Facey is a two-storey building of 17,282.5 square metres (186,027 sq ft) and has a capacity of 1,481 students. It is the largest high school in Elk Island Public Schools, and has an optimum enrollment of 1,200 students. Only minor renovations have been done since the building was constructed: several classrooms were combined to create the Student Services area in 1993; the metal working, wood working, and graphics areas were converted to classrooms and the communications technology area in 1999; a Health and Wellness Centre was completed in 2015; and the cosmetology lab and administration areas were modernized in 2016.
The school was named for Mr. F. B. (Bev) Facey, the Strathcona County Superintendent of Schools from 1962 to 1975.
Facilities
Bev Facey has multiple labs, class specific classrooms, and special services, dedicated for academic enhancement and achievement. Bev Facey has the following:
Bev Facey backs onto the Strathcona Athletic Park, which is used for physical education classes and athletic team practices. Strathcona Athletic Park has four baseball diamonds, a football field, five combination football/soccer fields. a running track, and a practice soccer field. In winter there is an outdoor hockey rink.
Academics
Bev Facey is accredited as Alberta school number 3340 by Alberta Education. In 2015 the school had a three-year high school completion rate of 85.7%, a four-year completion rate of 86.9%, and a five-year completion rate of 91.1%, exceeding the average completion rates for Elk Island Public Schools and the province. The annual dropout rate was 1.8%, less than the average dropout rates for Elk Island Public Schools and the province.
Courses are offered to the 30 level in English, mathematics, social studies, sciences (general, biology, chemistry, and physics), physical education, and second languages (French, German, and Spanish). Fine Arts courses are offered to the 30 level in art, band (both concert and jazz), creative music (rock/pop and singer-songwriter), drama, musical theatre, and technical theatre. Specialized programs include:
Advanced placement
Bev Facey offers the following nine (of thirty-seven) academic courses in the Advanced Placement (AP) Program:
Career education
Career and technology studies (CTS) is a flexible provincial curriculum of one-credit units designed to develop skills that students can apply in the workplace or in further learning. Bev Facey combines units to offer courses in the following CTS areas:
Off campus education
Bev Facey offers four off-campus programs:
Special education
Alberta Education requires that all public school boards provide educational programming for students with special education needs. Elk Island Public Schools offers the following three special education programs at Bev Facey:
Cisco Networking Academy
Bev Facey is a Cisco Networking Academy, and is certified as a Pearson VUE Testing Center so that students may take their CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, or Cisco Certified Network Associate–Routing and Switching Essentials certification exams at the school.
The school was one of twelve schools worldwide (and the only non-university) to participate with Cisco Networking Academy in the 2015 pilot of the Internet of Everything course.
Athletics
Bev Facey's sports teams are known as the Falcons, and their mascot is Chuck the Falcon, a blue falcon. The school competes in the 51-school Metro Edmonton High School Athletics (Metro Athletics) region of the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association (ASAA), and enters teams in the following sports:
ASAA provincial championships
Metro Athletics championships (non-ASAA sports)
Prior to 2013, Metro Athletics did not include Edmonton Public Schools, the largest Edmonton area school board.
2016 online threat
Bev Facey was one of seven Edmonton area schools that were the target of a rash of online threats in late 2016, resulting in school lockdowns or the less-severe "hold and secure" threat response, police investigations, and arrests. Similar incidents occurred at Fort McMurray and Red Deer, Alberta schools in the same time period.
In the Bev Facey incident once the threat was reported the school was placed in a hold and secure alert until the RCMP arrived at the school and arrested the student allegedly responsible.