Lorne Park Secondary School
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Lorne Park Secondary School (often abbreviated as LP or LPSS) is a public high school
located in Mississauga, Ontario
, Canada
. It serves the Lorne Park area.
began negotiations to purchase land for a new school to be built on a 13½ acre site at the price of $32,469 CAD
. Construction on the school began in 1957, and the total cost of the school (including the land) was $752,569.
Billed as a very modern design when the school opened for students in January 1958, the main feature of the school, facing south onto Lorne Park Road, was a suspended concrete canopy with two-story windows. The school opened with 272 students and 16 teachers.
While not in use presently, a firing range exists in the basement
of the school (beneath the small gymnasium). It was built in order to secure extra funding during the Cold War
period so that students could have a suitable area to practice in. When such a use became obscure, the firing range housed the drama
department's props
and costumes. It was permanently closed and removed from official architectural plans officially because of the archaic lead paint on its walls.
In 1973, Lorne Park was the first school in the Peel Board of Education to offer full-credit semestering. The success of the experiment led to the extension of semestering to most schools in Peel by 1976.
The school population peaked in 1979, when Lorne Park had a teaching staff of 92 and 1,647 students in a building designed for 1,420. The current student population stands at 1,167 students. It is one of five designated centres of the Peel Regional Enhanced Program
, catering to gifted students from across southern Mississauga. Lorne Park also hosts an Extended French program. Its feeder schools are Hillcrest Public School, Tecumseh Public School, Green Glade Senior Public School (also the Extended French program feeder), St. Christopher Catholic School, Allan A. Martin Public School and St. Luke Catholic School. Enhanced program feeders includes Hillside Public School.
, men's rugby, women's lacrosse
, and women's field hockey teams. They have produced several OFSAA and ROPSSAA champions in football
, boys' and girls' hockey
, women's lacrosse
, field hockey
, rugby
, basketball
, skiing
, cross-country
, badminton
, baseball
, swimming
and tennis
. The junior cross-country ski team was 2007 OFSAA champions.
players, and one NFL player, Klaus Wilmsmeyer. In 2000 the Spartans won their tenth ever Metro Bowl, defeating Notre Dame (Burlington) 69-0 at the Skydome. In 2007, The J.R. Spartans were ranked 7th in Ontario losing to Notre Dame(Burlington) 23-13 in the Metro Bowl quarter finals. Historically, the Spartans are one of the teams with the most ROPSSAA championships after dominating in the 1970s, 1980s, and late 1990s. In 2009, highly touted prospect Brent Urban enrolled in his first year at The University of Virginia.
The team was recognized by the Mississauga Sports Council annual Sports Dinner as the High School Team of the Year for their accomplishments in 2010.
In 2011,the Junior Spartans won the ROPSSAA championship against Streetsville with a score of 10-8.
Association (MSLA) at Erie and won Bronze in the (OFSAA-sanctioned) Provincial Cup in Peterborough. In 2006 and 2005 Lorne Park's Varsity, Junior Varsity and Rookie teams all swept ROPSSAA. As well, Varsity came 4th in the Provincial Cup tournament in both years and in 2006 also placed 8th in the MSLA at Detroit.
2008 saw a rebirth of the rookie team. 80 girls played on all 3 teams with the Varsity team winning their 4th ROPSSAA title in a row. The junior "A" team repeated as the Jr. Varsity Champions after an undefeated season while the junior "B" team won the bronze medal.
against top teams from across the province. This victory came after a defeat in the Prentice Cup Semi-Finals the year before.
team participated in the North American Finals in Dallas, Texas
in May 2006 and the finals in Atlanta, Georgia in May 2008, but have been unable to participate due to lack of a teacher. In the mid-1990s, the Lorne Park Model United Nations
team was ranked consistently high at NHSMUN
in New York City
, and the Southern Ontario Model United Nations. Several alumni have gone onto careers in the arts
, including Suzie McNeil
(Last female contestant, Rock Star: INXS
). Neve Campbell
's father was the assistant head of the drama department for a decade. The senior concert band consistently performs among the top schools in the country every year, particularly at MusicFest Canada
.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Mississauga, 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
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It serves the Lorne Park area.
History
When the population of Peel County began experiencing a population explosion in the 1950s, the secretary-treasurer for the South Peel Board of EducationPeel District School Board
Peel District School Board is a Canadian public board of education for the Peel Regional Municipality, headquartered in the HJA Brown Education Centre in Mississauga...
began negotiations to purchase land for a new school to be built on a 13½ acre site at the price of $32,469 CAD
Canadian dollar
The Canadian dollar is the currency of Canada. As of 2007, the Canadian dollar is the 7th most traded currency in the world. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or C$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies...
. Construction on the school began in 1957, and the total cost of the school (including the land) was $752,569.
Billed as a very modern design when the school opened for students in January 1958, the main feature of the school, facing south onto Lorne Park Road, was a suspended concrete canopy with two-story windows. The school opened with 272 students and 16 teachers.
While not in use presently, a firing range exists in the basement
Basement
__FORCETOC__A basement is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. Basements are typically used as a utility space for a building where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system...
of the school (beneath the small gymnasium). It was built in order to secure extra funding during the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
period so that students could have a suitable area to practice in. When such a use became obscure, the firing range housed the drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
department's props
Theatrical property
A theatrical property, commonly referred to as a prop, is an object used on stage by actors to further the plot or story line of a theatrical production. Smaller props are referred to as "hand props". Larger props may also be set decoration, such as a chair or table. The difference between a set...
and costumes. It was permanently closed and removed from official architectural plans officially because of the archaic lead paint on its walls.
In 1973, Lorne Park was the first school in the Peel Board of Education to offer full-credit semestering. The success of the experiment led to the extension of semestering to most schools in Peel by 1976.
The school population peaked in 1979, when Lorne Park had a teaching staff of 92 and 1,647 students in a building designed for 1,420. The current student population stands at 1,167 students. It is one of five designated centres of the Peel Regional Enhanced Program
Regional Enhanced Program
The Regional Enhanced Program is a Canadian gifted education program operated by the Peel District School Board.The Peel District School Board defines gifted students as "children that have an unusually advanced degree of general intellectual ability that requires differentiated learning...
, catering to gifted students from across southern Mississauga. Lorne Park also hosts an Extended French program. Its feeder schools are Hillcrest Public School, Tecumseh Public School, Green Glade Senior Public School (also the Extended French program feeder), St. Christopher Catholic School, Allan A. Martin Public School and St. Luke Catholic School. Enhanced program feeders includes Hillside Public School.
Sports
Lorne Park has a variety athletic programs, including footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, men's rugby, women's lacrosse
Women's lacrosse
Women's lacrosse, sometimes shortened to wlax or lax, is a sport played with twelve players on each team. Originally played by the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the first tribe to play it was the Hauser tribe, of the Great Plains. The modern women's game was introduced in 1890 at the St...
, and women's field hockey teams. They have produced several OFSAA and ROPSSAA champions in football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, boys' and girls' hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, women's lacrosse
Women's lacrosse
Women's lacrosse, sometimes shortened to wlax or lax, is a sport played with twelve players on each team. Originally played by the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the first tribe to play it was the Hauser tribe, of the Great Plains. The modern women's game was introduced in 1890 at the St...
, field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, rugby
Rugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, skiing
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
, cross-country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
and tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
. The junior cross-country ski team was 2007 OFSAA champions.
Men's Football
Lorne Park's strongest reputation in athletics is in its football program. Both their junior and senior teams are consistently among the top ranked, and they have produced a number of CFLCanadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
players, and one NFL player, Klaus Wilmsmeyer. In 2000 the Spartans won their tenth ever Metro Bowl, defeating Notre Dame (Burlington) 69-0 at the Skydome. In 2007, The J.R. Spartans were ranked 7th in Ontario losing to Notre Dame(Burlington) 23-13 in the Metro Bowl quarter finals. Historically, the Spartans are one of the teams with the most ROPSSAA championships after dominating in the 1970s, 1980s, and late 1990s. In 2009, highly touted prospect Brent Urban enrolled in his first year at The University of Virginia.
Men's Rugby
Lorne Park had multiple Ropssaa championships at both Junior and Senior levels as well as tournament wins in the Red Hot Rugby Tournament as well as the 7's tournament held at Fletcher's Fields. In 2009, after winning the Region of Peel Championships (ROPSSAA) a young Senior Spartan team lost in the finals of the OFSAA (Ontario) championships to Lindsay C.I. In 2010, the Spartans returned as Peel Champions. After going through most of the season ranked #4 in Ontario, the Spartans achieved the #1 ranking going into the OFSAA championships. In this 3 day tournament the Lorne Park Spartans ultimately defeated Uxbridge in the finals to win the OFSAA title. This senior team had a 2 year record of 43-1. Several of the players from this team represented Ontario and Canada in National and International competitions.The team was recognized by the Mississauga Sports Council annual Sports Dinner as the High School Team of the Year for their accomplishments in 2010.
In 2011,the Junior Spartans won the ROPSSAA championship against Streetsville with a score of 10-8.
Women's Lacrosse
In 2007 there were two teams, Seniors and Juniors. Both won ROPSSAA. The Seniors placed 13th in Midwest Schools LacrosseLacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
Association (MSLA) at Erie and won Bronze in the (OFSAA-sanctioned) Provincial Cup in Peterborough. In 2006 and 2005 Lorne Park's Varsity, Junior Varsity and Rookie teams all swept ROPSSAA. As well, Varsity came 4th in the Provincial Cup tournament in both years and in 2006 also placed 8th in the MSLA at Detroit.
2008 saw a rebirth of the rookie team. 80 girls played on all 3 teams with the Varsity team winning their 4th ROPSSAA title in a row. The junior "A" team repeated as the Jr. Varsity Champions after an undefeated season while the junior "B" team won the bronze medal.
Baseball
Lorne Park's varsity baseball team won OFSAA baseball's Prentice Cup in 2005, competing at the Rogers CentreRogers Centre
Rogers Centre is a multi-purpose stadium, in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated next to the CN Tower, near the shores of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League...
against top teams from across the province. This victory came after a defeat in the Prentice Cup Semi-Finals the year before.
Clubs
Lorne Park enjoys a healthy tradition of student involvement in extracurricular activities. The DECADECA (organization)
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team participated in the North American Finals in Dallas, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
in May 2006 and the finals in Atlanta, Georgia in May 2008, but have been unable to participate due to lack of a teacher. In the mid-1990s, the Lorne Park Model United Nations
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
team was ranked consistently high at NHSMUN
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, and the Southern Ontario Model United Nations. Several alumni have gone onto careers in the arts
ARts
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, including Suzie McNeil
Suzie McNeil
Susan Jane "Suzie" McNeil is a Canadian pop rock recording artist.-Early life:McNeil was born in Mississauga, Ontario. She has a sister, Laura Norris, a teacher at a public high school in Toronto.-Rock Star: INXS:...
(Last female contestant, Rock Star: INXS
Rock Star: INXS
Rock Star: INXS is the first season of the reality television show Rock Star where 15 contestants competed to become the lead vocalist for the Australian rock band INXS....
). Neve Campbell
Neve Campbell
Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canadian actress. After beginning her career on stage, and on numerous commercials, she starred on the Canadian television series Catwalk. She then rose to international fame on the Golden Globe-winning 1990s television series Party of Five, playing the role of teenager...
's father was the assistant head of the drama department for a decade. The senior concert band consistently performs among the top schools in the country every year, particularly at MusicFest Canada
MusicFest Canada
MusicFest Canada is a competition festival, established as the Canadian Stage Band Festival in Toronto, in 1972, by Robert Richmond , Gary Wadsworth, and Paul Miner...
.
Notable alumni
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, Comic-book artist and writer - Klaus Wilmsmeyer, NFL Football Player
- Rory Bell, OHL London Knights draft pick
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, CFL Football Player - Steve PinizzottoSteve PinizzottoSteven Pinizzotto is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger/centre currently under contract with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League...
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, Toronto Maple Leafs broadcaster - Patrick Kitchen, Waterboy on the 2010 LPSS Curling team