Calgary Catholic School District

Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 1
Calgary Catholic School District
Board office location	1000 - 5 Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta
Communities served	Airdrie, Calgary, Chestermere, Cochrane
Number of schools	106
2008-09 budget (CAD $ millions)	$400 million
Number of students	45,766
Chair of the Board	Serafino Scarpino
Superintendent	Dr. Lucy Miller
Elected Trustees	Serafino Scarpino, wards 1, 2, & Cochrane Linda Wellman, wards 3, 5, & Airdrie Margaret Belcourt, wards 4 & 7 Lois Burke-Gaffney, ward 6 & 8 Rosemarie Goerlitz, wards 9, 10, & Chestermere Cathie Williams, wards 11 & 12 Mary Martin, wards 13 & 14
http://www.cssd.ab.ca/

Catholic School Centre (CCSD head offices)

The Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD) is the Roman Catholic separate school board in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It also serves the neighboring communities of Airdrie, Chestermere, and Cochrane. The CCSD receives funding, for all students, from the provincial government of Alberta.

History

The district began in 1885 as the Lacombe Separate School District #1 in what was then part of the North West Territories. Its first school, also built in 1885, was St. Mary's, which is the oldest operating school in Calgary (though in a newer building).

Size

The CCSD is second in size (by student count) to the city's main school board, the public Calgary Board of Education (CBE). Unlike the Calgary Board of Education, the territory of the CCSD extends slightly outside the municipal limits of the city.

For the 2004-2005 school year, there were approximately 43,000 students in the CCSD, with 96 schools in total. This was made up of 49 elementary schools, 28 elementary/junior high schools, 6 junior high schools, 8 senior high schools, 2 junior/senior high schools, 1 elementary/junior/senior high school and 2 schools for special needs students.

Governance

A group of seven elected trustees run the CCSD. Each trustee represents two wards in the city. They are elected every three years, in the regular municipal election. In the election, Calgary voters can only vote for a trustee to one (not both) of the two school boards. Voters for the CCSD will include Catholics and non-Catholics who support the Catholic system. The public (CBE) and Catholic (CCSD) systems operate independently of each other, and are both under the direct authority of the provincial government of Alberta. The last election was in October 2010.

Though affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church; the Church has no legal authority over the CCSD. Instead the Alberta government has final authority over the CCSD (as with any school district in the province).

Special programs

Bishop Carroll High School (photo taken in 2006)

St. Mary's High School (photo taken in 2005)

The CCSD offers a variety of special program in some of schools, such as the Independent Learning program at Bishop Carroll High School, which allows students to move through the Alberta curriculum at their own individual pace.

Senior high schools

In Alberta, a senior high school teaches grades 10-12 (what other jurisdictions call "secondary schools"). However, some may not teach all three grades. Also, some may also teach earlier grades. The following is a list of CCSD senior high schools:

Name	Address	City/Town	Grades
Bishop Carroll High School	4624 Richard Road S.W.	Calgary	10-12
Bishop Grandin High School	111 Haddon Road S.W.	Calgary	10-12
Bishop McNally High School	5700 Falconridge Blvd. N.E.	Calgary	10-12
Bishop O'Byrne High School	500, 333 Shawville Blvd. S.E.	Calgary	10-12
Father Lacombe High School	3615 Radcliffe Drive S.E.	Calgary	10-12
Notre Dame High School	11900 Country Village Link NE	Calgary	10-12
Our Lady of Lourdes High School	1916 2 Street S.W.	Calgary	4-12
St. Anne Academic Centre	1010-21 Ave. SE	Calgary	12
St. Francis High School	877 Northmount Drive N.W.	Calgary	10-12
St. Gabriel The Archangel High School	197 Invermere Drive	Chestermere	K-12
St. Martin de Porres High School	410 Big Hill Springs Road West	Airdrie	9-12
St. Mary's High School	111 - 18 Avenue S.W.	Calgary	10-12
St. Timothy High School	261101 Carlson Trail	Cochrane	7-12

See also

• List of Alberta school boards

References

• "Lacombe trumpeted education: Early Oblate helped establish residential schools, Catholic education" By Ramon Gonzalez, Western Catholic Reporter. June 5, 2005.

External links

• Official site of The Calgary Catholic School District
• "Catholic board looks at suing trustee O'Malley" (November 10, 2005) - CBC News