Saint Jean de Brébeuf Catholic Secondary School is one of seven Roman Catholic high schools in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, under the jurisdiction of the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board

Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board

The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board is the Roman Catholic school board for the city of Hamilton, Ontario, which includes the former Wentworth County. It operates 60 schools: 53 elementary, and 7 secondary schools.-Secondary schools:...

. The school is located on the East Mountain of Hamilton, serving the south-east of Hamilton as well as parts of Binbrook

Binbrook, Ontario

Binbrook is a small, but growing community in southeastern Hamilton, Ontario in Canada. It was unpopularly amalgamated into the City of Hamilton in 2001. Since 2001, Binbrook has added hundreds of new homes as it becomes an "island" suburb of Hamilton, separated by conservation and agricultural lands...

, Caledonia

Caledonia, Ontario

Caledonia is a small riverside community and former town located on the Grand River in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. Haldimand County is in the western part of the Niagara Peninsula, and had a population of 43,280 in 2001. The current mayor of Haldimand County is Ken Hewitt; Caledonia is...

 and Glanbrook (communities in the Greater Hamilton Area). The school's Latin motto is "anima

Anima

Anima may refer to:*the Latin term for the "animating principle", see vitalism**the Latin translation of Greek psyche**in Christian contexts, the soul**see also spirit...

, mens

Mens

In Roman mythology, Mens, also known as Bona Mens or Mens Bona , was the personification of thought, consciousness and the mind, and also of "right-thinking". Her festival was celebrated on June 8...

, corpus".

The school is often referred to as SJB or Brébeuf. Saint Jean de Brébeuf graduates approximately 350 students every year with over 75% of them going onto post-secondary education. The school's 150 member staff are involved in the school's numerous activities, sports and associations.

Athletics

Brébeuf participates in the Golden Horseshoe

Golden Horseshoe

The Golden Horseshoe is a densely populated and industrialized region centred around the Greater Toronto Area at the western end of Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada, with outer boundaries stretching south to Lake Erie and north to Georgian Bay. Most of it is also part of the Quebec City...

 with other catholic secondary schools. They are known for their women's 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...

, soccer and baseball teams.

Student Council

Brebeuf's student council donates their profits from events to local charities at the end of the school year.

Feeder Schools

St. Margaret Mary,
Our Lady of Lourdes,
Pope John Paul II,
Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa , born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950...

,
Sacred Heart,
St. Daniel,
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha,
Blessed Sacrament,
St. Marguerite d'Youville.