John Polanyi Collegiate Institute


John Polanyi Collegiate Institute, formerly Sir Sandford Fleming Academy and Sir Sandford Fleming Secondary School is a public high school housed in the former Bathurst Heights Secondary School building located in the North York district of Toronto, and serving the area of Lawrence Avenue West and Allen Road. Prior to 1998, the school was part of the North York Board of Education.
It is a semestered school offering a "full range of university, college and apprenticeship programs." The school was originally named after the Scottish-Canadian inventor of time zones Sandford Fleming.

History

Sir Sandford Fleming Secondary School was constructed and opened in September 1964. The building shares the same design as Newtonbrook Secondary School. The teams name was known as the Chargers. On September 6, 2011, the school was renamed to John Polanyi Collegiate Institute with the Fleming staff and students moved into the former Bathurst Heights Secondary School on Lawrence and Allen.

Origins of Bathurst Heights

Bathurst Heights Secondary School opened on September 4, 1951 as North York's second high school and officially opened on May 29, 1952. Six additions were made throughout the years and adult education was introduced before its program being abolished in 2000. After years of enrollment declining, Bathurst Heights was closed its doors as a regular operating school on June 23, 2001.
In 2004 the school was used in the filming of the Zero Hour episode: Massacre at Columbine High.
In the 2000s, the Toronto Catholic District School Board used the Bathurst Heights building to house the students from Brebeuf College School during re-construction and later Dante Alighieri Academy Beatrice Campus.
The former school's building is now leased out by the Toronto District School Board to several tenants: