By 1965 enrollment doubled and the vocational wings were constructed including shop areas for automotive, carpentry, electronics & electricity, drafting, commercial art, beauty culture, hot metals and lithograph.

In 1983, two of the areas were renovated to house the Home Economics facilities and in 2000, a new library, media environment and music room were added along with new computer and science labs and numerous classrooms.

[1] In July 2017 modernization construction[2] began on the school on the original section of the building, providing a new chapel, Culinary Arts area, expanded gymnasium facilities and a brighter, more open student commons.

The St Francis Invitational (SFI) is an eight team tournament that invites several senior boys varsity teams from rival city & provincial high schools, as well as schools from Western Canada and occasionally from the United States (specifically Laredo, Texas)[5] to compete in a two-day tourney.

[6] Students in these programs are entered into competition and festivals, and the program stages a fall production, spring production, musical theatre revue, and dance show, culminating in an evening gala featuring dance, choir, band, theatre, and visual art exhibitions and performances.