Mimico High School

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Mimico High School is a former Public Secondary School operated from 1924 to 1988 by the Etobicoke Board of Education as the first high school. As of 1993, John English Junior Middle School , founded in 1884, occupies the building. The school is sanctioned by the Toronto District School Board and it is named after the Mimico principal.HistoryMimico's first schools were basic wooden structures. John English JMS was the first brick building in Mimico built in 1884 at the corner of Royal York and Mimico Avenue as a one-room brick building. The original structure was replaced by a new building in 1957. Mimico High School building opened in 1924 with five additions were added to the original structure in 1926, 1957, 1962, 1963, and 1966.Since the 1920s, the school has been on the north corner of Royal York Road and Mimico Ave. It was a large 2-story brick edifice that reached to Elizabeth St. Separate playgrounds for boys and girls had a wood fence between them in the early 1950s. The ceilings were ornamented plaster set in a square pattern by the old caretaker (who lived in a small house on the Elizabeth St end) after hours who was a never-ending source of school and local area history.With declining enrollment at Mimico High School, the building was offered to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Toronto Catholic District School Board) as the number of Catholics had been increasing with many Italian and Polish immigrants arriving in Mimico. This offer was refused and an Adult Learning Centre was opened there until that institution swapped schools with John English Elementary School in 1993. An estate on Lake Shore was bought by the Polish government at this time to become their Toronto Consulate. A new railway station was built in the 1970s to service GO trains on the site of the 1855 station on the north side of the tracks just south of Christ Church on Royal York while the old 1916 Station fell into disrepair.

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Mimico High School is Toronto based place and this enity listed in High School category.