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St. Pius X High School (Ottawa)

Field	Value
name	St. Pius X High School
address	1481 Fisher Avenue
city	Ottawa
province	Ontario
postcode	K2C 1X4
country	Canada
coordinates
schooltype	Separate high school
motto	To establish all things in Christ
religious_affiliation	Catholic
founded
schoolboard	Ottawa Catholic School Board
superintendent	Nicola Benton
trustee	Luka Luketic-Buyers
principal	Philip Capobianco
grades_label	Grades
grades	9 – 12
enrollment	833
enrollment_as_of	March 2020
language	English, French
colours
mascot	Captain Pius
team_name	X-Men
homepage

St. Pius X High School is a secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1958, the school, operated by the publicly funded Ottawa Catholic School Board, teaches grades 9-12. As of March, enrollment stood at around 833 students.

In 1975, the school became a scene of a school shooting perpetrated by a senior student that killed 3 (including himself) and injured 5 others.

School shooting

Main article: St. Pius X High School shooting

St. Pius X High School was the scene of Canada's second school shooting on October 27, 1975. The gunman, Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old St. Pius student, opened fire on his classmates with a 12 gauge shotgun, killing one and wounding five before killing himself. Poulin had raped and stabbed 17-year-old Kim Rabot to death prior to the incident. He also attempted to burn down the house after he killed Rabot. A book entitled Rape of a Normal Mind was written about the incident.

Screwdriver fight

On October 16, 2017, a brawl between students belonging mainly to the Syrian and Italo-Canadian cultural groups occurred at Steve MacLean Park. One student attempted to use a screwdriver as a weapon, but was unsuccessful in causing injury. 47 students were sent home for the day, while 8 faced longer term suspensions.

Notable alumni

Dan Aykroyd - actor
Brendan Bell - National Hockey League player
Walter Douglas Boyd - cardiac surgeon; performed world's first robot-assisted closed chest coronary artery bypass surgery
Rick Chiarelli - Ottawa City Councillor
Keith Egli - Ottawa City Councillor
Jim Foley - Canadian Football League player
Vincent Lam - writer, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures; winner of the 2006 Giller Prize
Jesse Palmer - retired National Football League player, host of The Bachelor, ESPN football analyst
Mark Sutcliffe - 59th mayor of Ottawa.
Chris Therien - retired National Hockey League player (non-graduate)
Jason York - retired National Hockey League player (non-graduate), Team 1200 (Ottawa) radio host

References

"Archived copy".
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_L8aU5o7e10btIjyUsjDl7d3NhEOP3ly/view?ts=5d138e8a OCSB Budget 2019-2020. Retrieved 04 July 2020.
[https://www.thestar.com/News/article/217023 The Star]
[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Fr.+Bob+Bedard:+no+big+car,+but+he's+happy+(Companions+of+the+Cross)-a030310924 The Free Library]
Cobb, Christopher and Avery, Bob. (1977). ''Rape of a Normal Mind''. Toronto: Paperjacks. {{ISBN. 0-7701-0025-2
[https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/st-pius-students-suspended-after-violent-brawl-near-high-school/ ctvnews.ca] St. Pius students suspended after violent brawl near high school October 17, 2017. Retrieved 02 June 2024.
[http://www.scohs.on.ca/scope/winter96/page01e.htm "Dan Aykroyd remembers his roots"] ''Scope'', Volume 3, No. 4, Winter 1996
"School Histories: St. Pius X Catholic High School". Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board.
[http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/jesse_palmer/index.shtml Jesse Palmer at NetGlimpse]
(12 October 2022). "Mark Sutcliffe running a different kind of race". CBC Ottawa.

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