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Bishop Allen Academy (officially Bishop Allen Academy Catholic Secondary School, alternatively as Bishop Allen, Bishop Allen Academy CSS, BAA, BAACSS, BA or Allen) is a high school located in the The Queensway – Humber Bay neighbourhood in the Etobicoke area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is managed by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Before the existence of Bishop Allen, the site was the estate of Fredrick Davidson's "Brookwood" house. It was demolished and redeveloped as a high school in 1963 as Kingsmill Secondary School by the Etobicoke Board of Education (now Toronto District School Board) and was closed at the end of June 1988. Bishop Allen houses 1519 students as of the 2014-2015 year and currently ranked 58 out of 725 schools in the Fraser Institute report card.〔http://ontario.compareschoolrankings.org/secondary/Bishop_Allen_Academy/Toronto/Report_Card.aspx〕〔http://ontario.compareschoolrankings.org/secondary/Bishop_Allen_Academy/Toronto/Report_Card.aspx〕 The motto of Bishop Allen Academy is "Gaudete in Domino" which translates to ''Rejoice in the Lord''. == History == The Bishop Allen Academy site is situated on 14½ acres on a ravine that runs parallel to the Mimico Creek.〔http://www.bishopallen.ca/AboutBAA/history.php〕 It was part of the original piece of land surveyed in the township of Etobicoke in 1793 by local developer Frederick Davidson which was set aside for the use of the government mill or the King's Mill located at the first rapids upstream from Lake Ontario and was later used for his 'Brookwood' estate. The house was eventually demolished in 1961 and the Etobicoke Board of Education constructed Kingsmill Secondary School (named after the Old 'King's' Mill) in 1962 designed by the architectural firm of Gordon S. Adamson & Associates on the 721 Royal York Road building just south of Royal York Collegiate Institute (now used today as Etobicoke School of the Arts).〔'Etobicoke Remembered' by Robert Given〕 The school was opened in October 1963. Kingsmill was one of three schools to be declared surplus by the Etobicoke Board of Education in June 1988 because of low enrollment and was transferred to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Toronto Catholic District School Board) on July 1, 1988 which reopened the school a year later in September 1989 as Bishop Allen Academy during a period of reorganization of the Catholic school boards after the extension of full funding to Catholic secondary schools in 1984. The area had previously been served by Etobicoke's first Catholic secondary schools in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish; Michael Power school for boys and St. Joseph's, Islington for girls which, having combined, moved from the area in the 1990s. Before it opened, it was used at one point as the temporary home of De La Salle College for its 850 students in early 1989 because of the flood caused by student vandalism in their own building.〔(Students move to new school as vandalized building fixed )." ''Toronto Star''. February 7, 1989. News p. A7. Retrieved on September 23, 2013. "Students and staff at De La Salle College in Toronto are being temporarily relocated to an Etobicoke school after the building was vandalized last month.", "Classes have been cancelled this week and the approximately 850 students will be moved Monday into the former Kingsmill Secondary School.", and "The $200,000 trashing of the secondary school on Farnham Ave., in the Avenue Rd.-St. Clair Ave., area has left remnants of ceiling asbestos exposed, a potential hazard Metro separate school board officials want cleaned up before students return to the classrooms, board spokesman John Fauteux said yesterday."〕 Bishop Allen Academy underwent three additions and renovations in 1991, 2000, and 2005. The new chapel and an under-used exterior courtyard was enclosed with a roof to expand the existing ground floor cafeteria was designed by the architect, Scott Morris. Many immigrant families had arrived in Toronto during the post war years including many Eastern Europeans, especially Byzantine Catholic Ukrainians, who made Etobicoke their home and whose descendants form a large part of the student body at Bishop Allen. The school is one of few in Toronto that has continued to grow during a period of falling student numbers as many families have moved to Toronto's suburbs. The school is named after Bishop Francis Allen, an auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Toronto and former pastor of local Etobicoke Parish Our Lady of Sorrows〔http://www.tcdsb.org/schools/bishopallenacademy.asp〕 which serves Bishop Allen Academy. Bishop Allen was instrumental, together with fellow Auxiliary Bishop Francis Marocco and Archbishop Philip Pocock, in the Archdiocese of Toronto's 1960s campaign to establish and enlarge Catholic Secondary Schools in the Archdiocese. With the former Kingsmill building built just for 717 students, the school has 20 portables on site to handle the growing student population. In 2008, health concerns and damp summer weather on all the portables that contained mould from one of the four forced to relocate Grade 10 students to the former St. Peter (now Monsignor Fraser College Annex) for one semester. The board installed three computer labs on that site.〔(Mould forces kids to change schools - thestar.com )〕 The former principal, Adrian Della Mora, was replaced by Stephen Carey at the beginning of the 2014-2015 year ending his 6-year tenure at the school. In 2015 a new unpopular rule about not walking during the announcements came into existence after many "Hall Monitors" felt the urge to scream at kids first thing in the morning. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bishop Allen Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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