The origins of L'Amoreaux Collegiate could date back to 1868 when S.S. No. 1 opened that later became L'Amoreaux Public School. Located in the northwestern L'Amoreaux neighbourhood, S.S. No. 1 was located on the northeastern corner of Finch and Birchmount until it was demolished in 1970 to eliminate intersection jog. The datestone now resides at the foyer of Silver Springs Public School. The collegiate itself, designed by noted Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama, was constructed in 1971 and opened on September 4, 1973 on Bridletowne Circle, just northeast of Warden and Finch as Scarborough's sixteenth collegiate and twenty-first high school itself. Distinctive in interior design, it featured a large tiered Central Market Square named after Rollit J Goldring, the first principal of the schoolin lieu of the standard auditoriums of similar sized facilities that had tended to be largely unused. The school hallway was featured in rock band Rush's 1982 video for the single Subdivisions.
Overview
Campus
L'Amoreaux Collegiate is built with 161,512 sq. ft. of space located in 15 acres. As a 2-story school with classrooms on the lower floor and the main office in the second. There are around 24 classrooms, six science labs, three art rooms, three music rooms, five computer labs, four vocational shops for tech design and construction, the Rollit J. Goldring Market Square, a cafetorium with a stage, four gymnasiums with the larger one having the ability to be portioned into two gymnasiums with the smaller gyms built in between, a 25m swimming pool shared with the city, main and guidance offices located in the second floor, and the 400m standard race track and football/soccer field. there are 2 small portables and 1 large portapak. With its design, the school hallways have accent colors of red, yellow, green and blue as you move from the front of the school to the back, and the locker colours are red, yellow, green, teal and blue.
Houses
As of the 2017-2018 school year, students at L'Amoreaux CI are now in one of 4 houses selected randomly at the start of the year: Incendium, Pelagus, Telluris and Zephyrus. Siblings are grouped in the same house to not create any rivalry.
Courses
SHSM (Specialist High Skills Major) Programs
l'Amoreaux Collegiate is one of the schools in the TDSB, which offers 2 SHSM programs. l'Amoreaux CI offers a SHSM Program in Business and Finance, and ICT. Students enrolled in SHSM receive an extra seal along with their diploma.
Extended French & Spanish
L'Amoreaux Collegiate offers the Honors Extended French Programs, in which students learning the Extended French track can graduate with a bilingual certificate. Spanish is also offered as a language course that students can enroll in.
Robotics Engineering
L'Amoreaux Collegiate is also one of the few schools that offers a robotics course as well as the club. Students in the course learn about engineering & the engineering process, learn about robot systems & programming, and robots in society. Robotics Engineering is a project based course, and the assignments include building 2 VEX EDR Robots, which are entered into the worldwide VEX Robotics Competition. Students in the course also help build the FRC robot.
Extra-Curriculars
Sports
Basketball
Basketball
Cricket
* L'Amoreaux has a Cricket Team. Indoor practice begins in October and continues until the Spring when outdoor practice begins. Although the competitive season is short, it's a lot of fun.
* Want to be a part of a unique sport, one of the fastest growing in North America, at the school that started it here in Scarborough? Want to make your resume stand out as being different from everyone else's? Dragon Boating gives you the opportunity to develop athletic skills, teamwork, self-confidence and strong friendships in the world class international competition. We start in February. See our display case in the Market Square.
