Bloor Collegiate Institute is a public secondary school located at the intersection of Bloor Street

Bloor Street

Bloor Street is a major east–west residential and commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, in the Canadian province of Ontario. Bloor Street runs from the Prince Edward Viaduct westward into Mississauga, where it ends at Central Parkway. East of the viaduct, Danforth Avenue continues along the same...

 and Dufferin Street

Dufferin Street

Dufferin Street is a major north-south street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, two concessions west of Yonge Street. The street starts at the foot of Lake Ontario, continues north to Toronto's northern boundary with some discontinuities and continues into York Region where it...

 in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

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. The school is located in the Dufferin Grove

Dufferin Grove

Dufferin Grove is a neighbourhood located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, west of downtown. The neighbourhood is bordered by Bloor Street West to the north, Ossington Ave to the east, College Street to the south, and Dufferin Street to the west.-Character:...

 neighbourhood.

History

Bloor Collegiate Institute was founded in 1925. In the 1970s, the school fielded sports teams in football, soccer, hockey, basketball,cricket, volleyball, rugby, cross-country running, track and field, and archery. Teams competed in the "bantam" level (grade nine students), the "junior" level (grades 10 and 11 students), and the "senior" level (grades 12 and 13 students). In September 2009, a Grade 11 student was stabbed during lunch hour. Kathy Evans, the principal of the school, stated that this was the first stabbing at the school that she's aware of. For about two hours, the school was in "secure mode" where nobody was allowed in or out of the building. However, the school wasn't in lockdown as students were allowed to move around the school. In 2011, the school won more gold medals at the Toronto Sci-Tech Fair than any other school, and sent two students on to the national science fair. Both of these students were from the TOPS Program.

School Culture

In the 1960s and 1970s, the school was predominantly attended by immigrants and first-generation Canadians of immigrants of mostly European origin (especially English, Irish, Ukrainian, Italian, Greek and Portuguese although some students were of Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Tamil background).
School motto: "Quod Incepimus Conficiemus" - What We Have Begun, We Shall Finish. (Shared with Colonel By Secondary School, Gloucester, Ontario.) http://www1.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/cobyweb/

TOPS

Bloor Collegiate Institute has a program called TOPS which stands for "Talented Offerings for Programs in the Sciences". The program started in September 2009. The school is slightly similar to the TOPS program at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute

Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute

Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute is a high school in Toronto, Ontario, and part of the Toronto District School Board. Best known for being the host school of the TOPS program, a selective math and science enrichment program...

. Parents of students at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, along with some teachers there, don't like the fact that Bloor Collegiate Institute is becoming part of the TDSB's initiative to open TOPS programs, preferring it be kept at Marc Garneau. Students are not required to be gifted

Intellectual giftedness

Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is different from a skill, in that skills are learned or acquired behaviors...

 and there is a $400 fee which pays for all core field trips and classroom materials beyond the Ontario curriculum.

Subjects required for TOPS
Grade	Subject	Source
9	Science Science Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
	Math
	English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
	Geography Geography Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
	Careers & Civics
10	Science
	2 Maths
	Computer Studies
	English
	History History History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
11	Biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
	Chemistry Chemistry Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....  and/or Physics Physics Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
	Technological Design
	Math
	English
12	Biology
	Chemistry and/or Physics
	English
	Math

Notable alumni

• Frank Gehry
  Frank Gehry
  Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...
  
  , Architect
• Peter Glassen
  Peter Glassen
  Peter Glassen was a professor of philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1949 until his death in 1986. He was previously a member of the psychology department at the University of Saskatchewan. He developed a considerable reputation as an analytic moral philosopher on the basis of a number...
  
  , Philosopher
• Susan Ioannou
  Susan Ioannou
  Susan Ioannou is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She was previously an English teacher at Bloor Collegiate Institute, for six years during the 1970s...
  
  , Poet
• Rik Emmett
  Rik Emmett
  Richard Gordon Emmett is a vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of the Canadian rock band Triumph. Emmett left Triumph in 1988 to pursue a solo career. His first solo album, Absolutely, was released in 1990 and became a moderate hit across North America thanks to the hits "When a Heart...
  
  , Musician
• Derek McGrath
  Derek McGrath
  Derek McGrath is a Canadian actor.He is known for his roles in Cheers as "Andy-Andy" Schroeder , Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoate in My Secret Identity, Crewman Chell in Star Trek: Voyager, and as Dr. Derek Hebert in Doc...
  
  , Actor Poet
• Randy Hurst, Writer/Poet
• Ewan D. Johnson MD,PhD, Physician/Scientist
• Anthony Ayiomamitis, World-renown astrophotographer

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