The school, located at 465 East 16th Street in Hamilton, was founded in 1955 as a fully composite high school, and was the first secondary school built on the Hamilton Mountain.
The school was built as part of Hamilton's need for more secondary schools to match the increasing enrollment of baby boomers.
The students will be consolidated into a new, $25 million school, to be named Nora Frances Henderson Secondary School.
[2] Drive to 85 was a program that gave students more ways to accumulate credits to graduate while improving the quality of high school education in the province.
The program's aim was for 85% of Ontario students to graduate from secondary school by the 2010–2011 school year.