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Rideau High School
Rideau High School
Address
	815 St. Laurent Boulevard; Ottawa, Ontario, K1K 3A7
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School board	Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Principal	Nancy Girozan
Campus	urban
Colour(s)	Blue and White
Mascot	Ram
Team name	Rams
Feeder schools	Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary
Affiliation	none
Website	http://www.rideauhs.ocdsb.ca

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Rideau High School is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada . It is located at 815 St. Laurent Boulevard in the east end of the city on the edge of Vanier. It is located next to the Queen Elizabeth elementary school. The school opened in 1958. It was the second of a series of ten high schools built by the school board to cope with rapidly rising attendance and the baby boom. The project generated some controversy as the Collegiate Board presented a plan that included an auditorium, double gym, and a cafeteria. The Ottawa Property Owners association objected to these as expensive and unneeded luxuries, and the mayor Charlotte Whitton agreed. The dispute delayed the construction of the school for some time.

The school was renovated in the early 1990s at the cost of several million dollars. It is a mixed stream school offering Academic(advanced), Applied(general) and Essential level courses. The school also has a significant English as a Second Language program, with about 15% of the student population enrolled. Its specialization in ESL programs makes it one of the most multicultural schools in the city. Rideau also has programs for special needs students and strong technological programming. Rideau was designed to hold 1200 students. Today enrolment has fallen to about 560 students.

The school contains two daycares and adult English programs.

There are gangs in this school. Parents may want to take precaution before enrolling their kids.

References

Keith, Janet. The Collegiate Institute Board of Ottawa: A Short History, 1843-1969. Ottawa: Kent, 1969.

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 The school contains two daycares and adult English programs.
+There are gangs in this school.  Parents may want to take precaution before enrolling their kids.
-In the past few years, Rideau High School among other high schools has lots of ignorant students who choose not to learn at school, but instead carry/sell weapons/drugs. There are some kids who think they are cool enough to be in a gang and do nothing but cause trouble inside and outside of school. Experts believe this is due to the absence of common sense and poor choices of music selection. These days people are taught to think Hiphop/Rap is actually music. They go to clubs, get drunk and believe what they are doing is normal. One day the Principal of this school will hopefully simply expel any "gang" kids or kids that look like they are from jail " pants down to your knees ". Maybe one day Rideau High School can lift the rumours against it and be a top school in the City by reaching out to the less intelligent kids so that they can one day be normal human beings again and maybe actually make it to College. [EDITED TO ADD FACTS]
 ==References==
 *Keith, Janet. ''The Collegiate Institute Board of Ottawa: A Short History, 1843-1969.'' Ottawa: Kent, 1969.