Religious affiliation(s) Secular Area trustee Pamela Gough Principal Craig Howe Number of students 698 (2013–2014) | Superintendent Jane Phillips-Long School number 926990
2077 / 283479 Motto Signum Fidei Founded Mimico | |
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School type Public high school
Public elementary school School board Toronto District School Board District Toronto District School Board, Etobicoke Board of Education Public transit access Toronto Transit Commission, Royal York Road | ||
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Mimico High School (also called locally Mimico HS, MHS or Mimico) is a former public secondary school operated from 1924 to 1988 by the Etobicoke Board of Education as the first high school. As of 1993, John English Junior Middle School (John English JMS, JEJMS, John English or English), founded in 1884, occupies the building. The school is sanctioned by the Toronto District School Board and it is named after the Mimico principal.
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History
Mimico's first schools were basic wooden structures. John English JMS was the first brick building in Mimico, built in 1884 at the corner of Royal York and Mimico Avenue as a one-room brick building. The original structure was replaced by a new building in 1957. Mimico High School building opened in 1924 with five additions added to the original structure in 1926, 1957, 1962, 1963, and 1966.
Since the 1920s, the school has been on the north corner of Royal York Road and Mimico Avenue. It was a large two-story brick edifice that reached to Elizabeth Street. In the early 1950s there were separate playgrounds for boys and girls, with a wood fence between them. The ceilings were ornamented plaster set in a square pattern by the old caretaker (who lived in a small house on the Elizabeth Street end) after hours, who was a never-ending source of school and local area history.
With declining enrollment at Mimico High School, the building was offered to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Toronto Catholic District School Board) as the number of Catholics had been increasing with many Italian and Polish immigrants arriving in Mimico. This offer was refused and an Adult Learning Centre was opened there until that institution swapped schools with John English Elementary School in 1993.
The auditorium, cafeteria, gymnasium, and other specialized areas are shared with the Community School.
The school is named after a well known former Mimico principal.
John English serves 700 students representing many language groups. The school offers programs in English (Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8), French Immersion (Senior Kindergarten-Grade 8) and Extended French (Grade 4 to 8).