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senior public school
DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
Spelling variants:Senior Public School, senior Public School
n. — Ontario, Education
a public school for students in grades 6-8 or 7-8.
Type: 5. Frequency — The term senior public school is currently used in Ontario to refer to a public elementary school for students in grades 6-8 or 7-8. The term's frequency in Canada is largely due to its presence in Ontario (see Charts 1 and 2). While the Canadian education system uses the general umbrella of elementary and secondary education to refer to public education for students generally aged 6-16 (see CMEC reference), education is under provincial jurisdiction (see CICIC reference), which explains why this term is so infrequent in other provinces and territories.
See: junior public school
Quotations
1899
It occurs to me, now, that the written exam's in literature are out in senior Public School and Junior H.S. work, that the literature teacher might with great profit take up a book, or a portion of a book, say Proverbs, or a Gospel, or a Prophecy, and treat it from a literary point of view, and, incidentally from a moral point of view.
1908
Mr. Alexander Taylor, chairman of the board, is donating the senior cup, which will be held from year to year by the senior public school scholar getting the highest points.
1920
Northern Alberta teachers in annual convention here met in five groups Friday morning, these being divided into high school, senior public school, intermendiate, primary and rural school sections.
1934
All schools were represented--Albert, Batts, Glenholm, Ross, Alma Mater, junior and senior public school, Irma.
1945
Every senior public school pupil in Canada will receive a copy of the New Testament, with additional books of psalms and proverbs, it was announced by the Gideons.
1955
Council yesterday approved two proposed school sites, one of 4.336 acres at $5,000 per acre west of Highway 27, between Bloor and Dundas Sts., the other 9.48 acres for a Wedgewood senior public school, costing a total of $72,600 at the rate of $7,500 per acre. [...] In addition, Queensway public school has undergone extensive alterations to turn it into a senior public school.
1966
It comprises the Stephen Leacock collegiate and senior public school joined together and sharing auditorium, library, cafeteria, health, guidance and athletic facilities, and a junior public school in a separate nearby building. [...] Initially designed to take 1,288 high school students, 525 senior public school and 450 junior public school pupils, in September, 1968, all three schools have provision for expansion to 2,000, 900 and 600 students respectively.
1977
The boy behind the bionic knife, Gary Carlos, is the Walter Mitty of Kane Senior Public School. He's a chubby boy with a shy smile who doesn't say much in class, but he's the most popular author in Grade 8.
1986
The enrolments that trigger a closing review are: 110 students for a junior public school, 140 for a school offering kindergarten to Grade 8 and 280 for a senior public school.
1996
Registration for next year's classes didn't start until yesterday morning, but parents began lining up before 9 a.m. Friday to enrol their children in the popular east-end Grades 7 and 8 senior public school program.
2005
The boarding house is across the street from a youth halfway house, is next door to a Waterloo park that has a kids' splash pad that, by the way, like most inner city parks, has a long history of deviant behaviour occurring there after dark, and a block away from a senior public school.
References
- CICIC • "Education in Canada"
- CMEC • "Elementary and Secondary Education"
Images
Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 3 Apr. 2014
