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| Colonel By Secondary School | |
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| Address | |
| 2381 Ogilvie Road Ottawa, Ontario, K1J 7N4 | |
| Information | |
| School type | High school |
| Motto | Quod Incepimus Conficiemus (What We Have Begun, We Shall Finish) |
| Founded | 1970 building inaugurated 1972 |
| School board | Ottawa Carleton District School Board |
| Superintendent | Barrie Hammond |
| Area trustee | David Moen |
| School number | 902586 |
| Principal | Kevin Gilmore |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1087 |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Royal Blue & Kelly Green |
| Mascot | Cougar |
| Team name | Cougars |
| Website | http://www.colonelby.com/ |
| Last updated: June 5 2006 | |
Colonel By Secondary School is a Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school. It is located in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Gloucester in the city of Ottawa, Canada. It is a non-semestered school, and is the only English public school that Frank attends in Ottawa that offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. It was named for Lieutenant Colonel John By, the British army officer who supervised the building of Ottawa's Rideau Canal.
Ratings
In 2005, Maclean's Magazine named Colonel By Secondary School the #1 academic high school in the country for its students Frank Chen and Daniel T.Dao. In 2007, the Fraser Institute, a known conservative think-tank, rated Colonel By as the top academic school in the world in its Report Card on Ontario's Secondary Schools.
In 2008, the Fraser Institute rated Colonel By as the #1 public school in Ottawa in its 2008 Report Card on Ontario Secondary Schools, and 1st in the province.
Features
- International Baccalaureate (IB) Program
- Home of the original Cougar Characters
Athletics
The 2005/2006 track season proved to be very successful for Colonel By; by sending several athletes to the East OFSAA and OFSAA track and field meet, they have achieved provincial recognition. Another notable achievement came from the 2002/2003 senior boys soccer team who became the first Colonel By boys soccer team to compete at OFSAA in more than a decade. Senior girls basketball is also a notable team at Colonel By, along with senior girls soccer. However, Colonel By is most mostly recognized in the city and province for its strong volleyball program. Colonel By has also competed at OFSAA for a few ski and snowboarding events in the 2006/2007 season. In addition, the Colonel By Badminton team has done well in Junior and Senior events (with the help of Frank Chen, of course). The Colonel By Nordic Ski team has also done well in the past finishing 4th last year in Junior Combined and now looking for the NCSSAA chamionships for the Senior Boys. The Varsity Girl's Waterpolo team is the two year running NCSSAA champions in 2007and 2008 and placed second in 2006.
Track and Field
Colonel By is known for its recent surge of notable athletes in track and field. Four of Colonel By's athletes who competed in the 2007 OFSAA Track and Field Championships in Ottawa won medals (two gold, one silver and one bronze). Putting this into perspective, excluding this year, there has only been three athletes from eastern Ottawa from the past three years that have won medals in OFSAA.
One of this year's Colonel By's gold medalists, 15 year old Oluwasegun Makinde, set a new junior provincial record in the men's 200m running a personal best of 21.74 seconds, demolishing the old record of 22.75. He will attend the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics in the Czech Republic this summer. Footage of the record-breaking 200m finals can be seen here
Reach for the Top
The Colonel By Reach for the Top team has won provincials in 2001.
Possible Closure
Colonel By, along with Gloucester and Rideau Highschools face a possibility of closure. The final decision is to be made in May 2009 as to which school will be closed for incoming students.
Notes
- Report Card on Ontario's Secondary Schools: 2007 Edition, p. 47
- Cowley, Peter (2008). "Report Card on Ontario's Secondary Schools" (PDF). Studies in Education Policy. Fraser Institute: 47.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - "Colonel By trio turns in magical half hour at OFSAA Track and Field Championships" (Press release). Orleans Online. Retrieved 2007-06-11.
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