L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute

L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute (or L'Am for short) is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada founded in 1973.

[2] Despite these challenges, 81% passed the Grade 10 literacy test on their first attempt in 2021-2022; essentially identical to the provincial average.

[citation needed] The collegiate itself, designed by the noted Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama,[5] was constructed in 1971 and opened on 4 September 1973 on Bridletowne Circle, just northeast of Warden and Finch, as Scarborough's sixteenth collegiate and twenty-first high school.

Its distinctive architecture, (arguably postmodern[6]) and interior design, includes a large, tiered Central Market Square later named after Rollit J Goldring,[7] the first principal of the school, instead of the standard auditoriums of similar-sized facilities which tend to be largely unused.

There are around 24 classrooms, six science labs, three art rooms, three music rooms, five computer laboratories (including a communications technology laboratory), four vocational shops for technical design and construction, the Rollit J. Goldring Market Square, a cafetorium with a stage, four gymnasia with the larger one having the ability to be portioned into two with the smaller gyms built in between, a 25m swimming pool shared with the city, the main office and guidance offices located on the second floor, and the 400m standard track and football/soccer field.

The original 'House system' comprised: Edwards, Kennedy, Purcell, Tomlinson, Scadding and White with yearbooks organized accordingly.

[8] According to an article by Carol Tennant in L'Amoreaux Life, a community newspaper, at least five of the original houses were named after well-known local ministers, teachers, land donors and farmers.

R.J. Goldring delivering the Principal's Message 1974-75
R.J. Goldring delivering the Principal's Message 1974-75
Map of the internal layout of the building
L'Amoreaux C.I. 2022-2023 Yearbook
L'Amoreaux CI 2021-2022 Yearbook