St. Joseph High School (Ottawa)

Infobox School
name = St. Joseph High School

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imagesize = 200px
streetaddress = 3333 Greenbank Rd.
city = Ottawa
province = Ontario
postalcode = K2J 4J1
country = CAN
schoolnumber =
schoolboard = Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board
religion = Roman Catholic
principal = Stephen McCabe
viceprincipal= Robin Howard
Mary Kelly
John Purificati
grades = 7-12
medium = English, French
motto= "Dedication Today, Success Tomorrow"
mascot= McJagger
patron = St. Joseph
team_name= The jaguars
school_colours= Blue, gold
founded= 11 October 2002
students = 1425
homepage= http://www2.occdsb.on.ca/sjh/

St. Joseph High School, referred to as "St. Joe's" by the local community of Barrhaven, Ontario, is a Roman Catholic high school run by the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board. In athletics, the school teams are referred to as the St. Joseph Jaguars and the school mascot is a jaguar named McJagger. St. Joe's has an enrollment of approximately 1425 students, from grades 7-12, along with 115 staff members.

History

St. Joseph High School was opened in 11 October 2002 to account for the recent growth of the Ottawa, Ontario suburb, Barrhaven. The only other Catholic high school in the area, Mother Teresa High School, was desperately overcrowded when St. Joe's opened for the 2002-03 school year. Bearing the name of a high school present in the region in the late 1950s, the school began with an enrollment of over 1000 students. By 2005, this number had exceeded 1500 students.

Facilities

The building of St. Joseph High School followed the design of Edward J. Cuhaci, mimicking Holy Trinity High School and many other schools of the region. St. Joseph's has 3 floors, which contain a chapel, four gymnasiums, five computer labs, a library, an exercise room, two art rooms, and laboratories for chemistry, biology, physics, and general science. There are 18 portables outside the school, as well as 2 football fields, basketball nets, and a 400-metre track.

Extra-curricular Activities

Athletics

St. Joseph offers a wide variety of over 25 sports teams, ranging from football to badminton. In its beginning 3 years alone, St. Joe's sent 6 teams to the Ontario Federation of Secondary Schools Athletic Association provincial championships, with the 2005-06 Junior Cheerleading team even placing first in Ontario. Every year since its opening, the school has won the CAHPERD award for its physical education programs.

Intramurals

Grade 7 and 8, as well as Grades 9-12, are offered lunch-time intramurals in sports such as volleyball, basketball, or dodgeball. For their efforts, St. Joseph has been given the CIRA award for its programs.

Jag Jog

Every year, St. Joseph offers their Jag Jog fundraiser. The day involves a lunch-time barbecue, a 5-kilometre run, and a volleyball tournament. Prizes are given to the winning runners in the Jog and teams in volleyball, as well as the students who raise the most money.

External links

* [http://www2.occdsb.on.ca/ OCCSB website]
* [http://www2.occdsb.on.ca/sjh/index.php St. Joseph website]