St. Pius X High School | |
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Address | |
1481 Fisher Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, K2C 1X4 Canada | |
Coordinates | 45°21′55″N 75°42′44″W / 45.36528°N 75.71222°W / 45.36528; -75.71222 |
Information | |
School type | Separate high school |
Motto | To establish all things in Christ |
Religious affiliation(s) | Catholic |
Founded | 1958; 66 years ago (1958) |
School board | Ottawa Catholic School Board |
Superintendent | Shelly Montgomery |
Area trustee | Luka Luketic-Buyers |
Administrator | Tammy James |
Principal | Carrie Bowie |
Grades | 9 – 12 |
Enrollment | 833 (March 2020) |
Language | English, French |
Colour(s) | |
Mascot | Captain Pius |
Team name | X-Men |
Co-Presidents | Austin LoFaro & Jonny Guercio |
Website | pih |
St. Pius X High School is a secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1958, the school, operated by the publicly funded Ottawa Catholic School Board, teaches grades 9-12. As of March, enrollment stood at around 833 students.
In 1975, the school became a scene of a school shooting perpetrated by a senior student that killed 3 (including himself) and injured 5 others.
School shooting
Main article: St. Pius X High School shootingSt. Pius X High School was the scene of Canada's second school shooting on October 27, 1975. The gunman, Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old St. Pius student, opened fire on his classmates with a 12 gauge shotgun, killing one and wounding five before killing himself. Poulin had raped and stabbed 17-year-old Kim Rabot to death prior to the incident. He also attempted to burn down the house after he killed Rabot. A book entitled Rape of a Normal Mind was written about the incident.
Screwdriver fight
On October 16th, 2017, a brawl between students belonging mainly to the Syrian and Italo-Canadian cultural groups occurred at Steve MacLean Park. One student attempted to use a screwdriver as a weapon, but was unsuccessful in causing injury. 47 students were sent home for the day, while 8 faced longer term suspensions.
Notable alumni
This article's list of alumni may not follow Misplaced Pages's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (July 2016) |
- Dan Aykroyd - actor
- Brendan Bell - National Hockey League player
- Walter Douglas Boyd - cardiac surgeon; performed world's first robot-assisted closed chest coronary artery bypass surgery
- Rick Chiarelli - Ottawa City Councillor
- Keith Egli - Ottawa City Councillor
- Jim Foley - Canadian Football League player
- Vincent Lam - writer, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures; winner of the 2006 Giller Prize
- Jesse Palmer - retired National Football League player, host of The Bachelor, ESPN football analyst
- Mark Sutcliffe - 59th mayor of Ottawa.
- Chris Therien - retired National Hockey League player (non-graduate)
- Jason York - retired National Hockey League player (non-graduate), Team 1200 (Ottawa) radio host
See also
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - https://www.instagram.com/stpiusxmen/ stpiusxmen (Student Council Instagram) Retrieved 02 June 2024.
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_L8aU5o7e10btIjyUsjDl7d3NhEOP3ly/view?ts=5d138e8a OCSB Budget 2019-2020. Retrieved 04 July 2020.
- The Star
- The Free Library
- Cobb, Christopher and Avery, Bob. (1977). Rape of a Normal Mind. Toronto: Paperjacks. ISBN 0-7701-0025-2
- https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/st-pius-students-suspended-after-violent-brawl-near-high-school-1.3636321 St. Pius students suspended after violent brawl near high school October 17, 2017. Retrieved 02 June 2024.
- "Dan Aykroyd remembers his roots" Scope, Volume 3, No. 4, Winter 1996
- "School Histories: St. Pius X Catholic High School" (PDF). Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board.
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(help) - Jesse Palmer at NetGlimpse
- "Mark Sutcliffe running a different kind of race". CBC Ottawa. 12 October 2022.