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Keswick High School

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School type
  
High school

Founded
  
2000

Grades
  
9-12

Phone
  
+1 905-476-0933

Province
  
Ontario

Religious affiliation(s)
  
Secular

Principal
  
Doug Case

Enrollment
  
1198 (October 2013)

Mascot
  
Cougar

Address
  
100 Biscayne Blvd, Keswick, ON L4P 3K9, Canada

District
  
York Region District School Board

Keswick High School is a public high school in the York Region District School Board. It is located in Keswick, Ontario, Canada and serves Grade 9 to 12 students from the growing Keswick community. It follows the curriculum standards set by the Ontario Ministry of Education and was officially opened in September 2000.

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History

Construction began in 1998. The school was built in order to accommodate the rising population of its surrounding suburban area, which continues to grow in rapid numbers. Previously, residents of the town of Georgina (including, among others, the communities of Keswick, Sutton, Pefferlaw, and Udora) commuted to Sutton District High School. However, the population count of the Sutton D.H.S. surpassed 2200, and would only rise due in part to the double cohort. Already well above its intended capacity, Keswick High School was built.

Notable events

  • Visual Arts teacher James Ruddle lived in a box for 66 hours, painting the inside of it.
  • In 2009, an Asian student was the victim of an alleged racially motivated assault. After he fought back, he was charged with assault and threatened with expulsion by his school. 400 students walked out of the high school to protest bullying and stand up against racism. Despite the fact that the Asian student previously had an excellent record and only threw one punch, apparently in self-defence against a racially motivated attack, the principal had originally called for the extreme measure of expelling him from all schools in the region. It was particularly sensitive because of a series of attacks on Asian fishermen in the same area in 2007, which led to an investigation by the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

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    Keswick High School Wikipedia
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