Maplewood High School (Toronto)

Maplewood High School
Maplewood High School
Address
	120 Galloway Road; West Hill, Toronto, Ontario, M1E 1W7; Canada
Coordinates	43°45′36″N 79°11′38″W / 43.7601°N 79.1939°W
Information
Former name	Maplewood Vocational School
School type	Vocational school; Public high school
Motto	Building Futures
Religious affiliation(s)	Secular
Established	1967
School board	Toronto District School Board; (Scarborough Board of Education)
Superintendent	Brendan Browne; LC3, Executive; Shirley Chan; LN16
Area trustee	Zakir Patel; Ward 19
School number	4136 / 924695
Principal	Andaluza Nagy
Grades	9-12
Enrolment	292 (2012-2013)
Language	English
Colour(s)	Green and gold
Team name	Maplewood Wolverines
Public transit access	TTC:; West/East: 86 Scarborough; Rapid Transit: Kennedy; GO Transit:; Train: Kennedy (rush hours)
Website	schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/maplewood/

Maplewood High School (locally known as Maplewood HS, MHS, or Maplewood), formerly Maplewood Vocational School is a specialized public vocational high school managed by the Scarborough Board of Education when it was passed on to the Toronto District School Board upon amalgamation in 1998. The school was founded in 1967 as the second junior vocational school in the former City of Scarborough.

The school offers basic academic and vocational courses with graduates entering post-secondary programs such as college or employment. Maplewood's school motto is Building Futures.

History

Maplewood Vocational School was established on September 5, 1967, using the facilities of Tabor Park Vocational School until the permanent building on a 12-acre property was erected and completed in 1968.^[1]^[2] The two-storey school is designed by the architects Webb, Zerafa and Menkes.^[3]

The school celebrated its 50th anniversary on October 21, 2017.^[4]

Campus

Maplewood High School is a two-storey 115,477 square feet (10,728.2 m²) building with 12 classrooms, one science lab, five ME/DD (multiple exceptionality/developmentally delayed) classrooms, library, double gymnasium, cafetorium, home economics room, vocational shops for automotive and motor service with paint booth, construction, welding, greenhouse, woodworking, textile, merchandising, assembly and production, bakery, quantity cooking, short order and arts room.

The building's layout from above has the shape of an "M" due to the two court yards from the gymnasium. The elevator was installed in 2019 to connect the academic building on the second floor with the wing from rooms S20 to S23.^[5] Hallway lockers are colored teal green and blue. It has 7 fire exits.

Programs

Academics

The school offers grades 9 to 12 in a semester system. It offers basic academic programs for special-needs students with potential knowledge and skills required for work and independent living. The courses consist of English, math, history, geography, science, and law curriculum.

Vocational

Maplewood offers technical and vocational programs including cosmetology, business and computer studies, home economics, parenting, sewing, integrated technology, construction, transportation, horticulture, maintenance, communications tech and woodworking.

Most notably, the food services program runs a professional kitchen and bake shop. Up-to-date equipment is used every day by Maplewood Food School to feed enough students in the cafeteria. Students learn how to work in the hospitality industry by gaining skills that are needed in catering, food preparation and baking. Some of its senior students earn the Food Handler Certificate.^[6]

Other

All students in Maplewood participate in the Transition to Work program, in which students gain the employability skills necessary for the world of work through in-school co-op courses and co-op opportunities in the community.

Co-curricular activities meet the diverse needs and interests of the Maplewood student body. Students can choose from any number of clubs in the area of arts, music, dance, fitness and sport. Competitive intramural sports feature interschool leagues and tournaments in team and individual sports.

The school is involved in charitable causes by participating in the Terry Fox Run, the Autism Walk, Special Olympics, Haiti Relief Efforts and the Hospital for Sick Children.

Sports

Volleyball
Basketball
Badminton
Soccer,
Cross-country running
Dodge-ball
Track & field
Softball
Floor hockey

Co-curricular activities

Student Council
Hip Hop
Belly Dancing
Drum
Band
Choir
Sewing
Pottery
Guitar
Anime

References

^ http://www.metropolicyarchive.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/HSS-1146450-1967D_MSBT-Minutes-1967.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Eloquent Systems Inc - JPEG 2000 Viewer".
^ Greene, Barnett M. and Parker, Charles W. - Who's who in Canada, Volume 54, 1964 - p. 1502
^ "The Web site cannot be found" (PDF).
^ "TDSB Maplewood High School, Scarborough, ON — ENGENICO". Archived from the original on 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
^ http://www3.tdsb.on.ca/SharedApp/SchoolPageLayout/4136_4pageLayout.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

External links

Maplewood High School

[1] ttp://www.metropolicyarchive.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/HSS-1146450-1967D_MSBT-Minutes-1967.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[2] "Eloquent Systems Inc - JPEG 2000 Viewer".

[3] Greene, Barnett M. and Parker, Charles W. - Who's who in Canada, Volume 54, 1964 - p. 1502

[4] "The Web site cannot be found" (PDF).

[5] "TDSB Maplewood High School, Scarborough, ON — ENGENICO". Archived from the original on 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-03-23.

[6] ttp://www3.tdsb.on.ca/SharedApp/SchoolPageLayout/4136_4pageLayout.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

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