St. Francis Xavier Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario

Infobox Education in Canada
name= St. Francis Xavier Secondary School


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city= Mississauga
province= Ontario
founded=September 1990
schoolboard= Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
affiliation= Roman Catholic
superintendent= Liz Kazimowicz
principal= Neville Mant
viceprincipal= Dominic Mariani, Sharon Goodland, Leanne O'Leary, and Gwendolyn Scanlon
schooltype= Separate High School
grades= 9 to 12
language= English
teamname=Tigers
colours= Blue and Maize color box|#333399 color box|#FFFF33
free_label_1=Special Programs
free_1=International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB)
free_label_2=Population
free_2=2194 (As of September 21, 2007)
free_label_3=Chaplain
free_3=Angelo Minardi

St. Francis Xavier Secondary School is located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is a Catholic high school in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, and is home to 2194 students, about 130 instructional staff and support staff, and a childcare centre. The principal is currently Neville Mant. The school mascot is the Tiger. The school has been noted for its International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. With 2194 students, it is the second largest school in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (as of September 21, 2007).

The school is located within St. Francis Xavier Parish in the Archdiocese of Toronto, and is the high school for St. Hilary, St. Matthew, St. Jude, St. Gertrude, and San Lorenzo Ruiz Elementary schools. Also, even though they are in the Peel Public Board, the school is the primary high school for Bristol Road Middle School and Fairwinds Middle School graduates.

The school opened in September 1990 on a temporary site where John Cabot Catholic Secondary School is now located. After two years, the staff and students moved into the permanent building, near the corner of Bristol and Hurontario. As part of the Dufferin-Peel portable replacement plan, the school received a three floor, twenty-two room addition which was completed in June 2001. Recently, with further growth of the school, more portables have been added to the school; 5 in 2006 and 5 more in 2007. Originally, 2 more portables are planned in September, 2008 as the school is expected to grow to at least 2380 students. However, that plan was recently cancelled due to a lack of acceptable locations.

Construction of Saviour of the World Chinese Catholic Church started during the 2002/03 school year, the Church now shares property with the school.

ports

The school has many sports teams and clubs. Teams include (boys and girls except where otherwise noted) Football (boys senior & boys junior), wrestling (varsity), hockey (varsity boys and girls), cross-country running (senior, junior & midget), golf (varsity), basketball (senior & junior), volleyball (senior & junior), cricket (senior & junior boys), soccer (senior & junior), rugby (varsity boys), track & field (senior, junior & midget), baseball (boys varsity), slowpitch softball (girls varsity), tennis (senior & junior), and badminton (senior & junior).

Recent ROPSSAA championships include:

2007-2008: Tennis- Senior Boys Singles, Senior Mixed Doubles; Junior Boys Football; Wrestling Individual - Melissa DeCiantis, Julie Huynh; Girls Varsity Tier 2 Hockey; Badminton - Senior Mixed Doubles; Varsity Boys Tier 2 Baseball

2006-07: Junior Boys, Senior Girls & Over-all Combined Tennis; Senior Tier 2 Football; Junior Boys Individual Cross Country Running; Wrestling Individual - Jamillah Mensah, Latacha Smellie, Megan Treglia; Badminton- Junior Boys Doubles Brian Li Nishant Raina, Junior Mixed Doubles Salman Aslam Nadia Aslam; Track and Field- Junior Boys 1500m & 3000m, Senior Girls Shotput Kristen Obrochta

2005-06: Girls Wrestling Team; Wrestling Individual - Isaias Morales, Melissa DeCiantis, Latacha Smellie, Tameka Bromfield; Track and Field- Midget Boys 3000m

2004-05: Junior Boys Tennis; Girls Wrestling Team; Wrestling Individual - Latacha Smellie, Chatele O'Sullivan; Junior Boys Soccer; Track and Field- Junior Girls 100m 200m Athena McBean, 4x100m Ashley Lapinski Athena McBean Jamillah Mensah Christa Acquah, Shotput Kristen Obrochta, Junior Boys High Jump Darren Duncan

2003-04: Senior Tier 2 Football; Wrestling Individual - Mike Ayoub; Track and Field- Athena McBean Midget Girls 100m 200m, 4x100m Athena McBean Jamillah Mensah Ashley Lapinsky Jessica Currie, Darren Duncan Midget Boys 100mH, Eshan Fernando Senior Boys 110mH

2002-03: Wrestling Individual - Chatele O'Sullivan

2001-02: Wrestling Individual - Madison Fisher

2000-01: Wrestling Individual - Madison Fisher

1999-00: Wrestling Individual - Eddie Haddad

1998-99: Wrestling Individual - Haig Istanboulian

The school is also well known in GTA basketball circles for the three Rimrocker basketball tournaments it hosts every year. It hosts a 16-team Senior Girls Rimrocker tournament the first week after Thanksgiving, a 16-team Senior Boys Rimrocker tournament the final week before Christmas, and a 32-team Junior Boys Rimrocker tournament the second week of January. The junior boys tournament is one of the largest and most prestigious junior boys basketball tournaments in Ontario.

Other Activities

Every second year, the school hosts Relay For Life to raise money for the Canadian Cancer society. Other school events include the ShareLife walk, Cafe Night, Three For Five Theatre, the school play, Unity Live, the Thanksgiving Food Drive, and the Christmas hamper drive.

External links

* [http://www.stfxss.org School Website]
* [http://w3.dpcdsb.org/cec Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board website]
* [http://www.stfrancisxavierchurch.ca/ St. Francis Xavier Church]
* [http://www.archtoronto.org/ Archdiocese of Toronto]