Forest Lawn High School Explained

Forest Lawn High School
Address:1304 - 44 Street S.E.
Country:Canada
Coordinates:51.041°N -113.97°W
Motto:Viator via veritatis
Motto Translation:Travel by way of truth
Superintendent:Naomi Johnson
Trustee:Pamela King
Number:b813
Principal:Matt Fell
Grades:10–12
Enrollment:1286[1]
Enrollment As Of:2021
Grade10:459
Grade11:379
Grade12:448
Area:Area III
Colours:Red, Gold and White
Mascot:Titans
Team Name:The Forest Lawn Titans

Forest Lawn High School is a high school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the southeast community of Forest Lawn. The senior high school has sports teams, who are known as the Titans, drama productions, dance, band, and choir. The school is located on 44th street, and is near Ernest Morrow Junior High, Jack James Senior High, Bob Bahan Memorial Pool, and Ernie Star Arena.

Forest Lawn serves the communities of Abbeydale, Albert Park, Applewood Park, Dover, Erin Woods, Forest Heights, Forest Lawn, Marlborough, Marlborough Park, Penbrooke Meadows, Pineridge, Radisson Heights, Red Carpet/Mountview Mobile Home Park, Rundle, Southview, Temple, and Whitehorn. Junior high feeder schools to Forest Lawn High School are Ernest Morrow, Ian Bazalgette, Langevin, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Dr. Gladys McKelvie Egbert, Bob Edwards, Clarence Sansom, Dr. Gordon Higgins, Annie Gale.

About the school

The school was built in 1968 and is situated on 25.0 acres. The school has 84 classrooms, a full commercial foods kitchen, a cosmetology program and a full auto motives service program featuring auto-mechanics, auto-body and welding courses at all three grade levels. Forest Lawn also offers Advanced Placement courses in the four core subjects and a full range of academic and complementary courses. The school was named after the community that it serves (Forest Lawn).

The school provides French/Spanish and English language as a primary language instruction. The school offers various performing and visual arts programs, and offers a certificate to recognize students that have made fine arts a focus of learning at the high school level.

The school is part of the Action for Bright Children Society.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: School Directory Schools Calgary Board of Education . www.cbe.ab.ca . 11 October 2021.
  2. Web site: Gifted Schools - Calgary . www.abccalgary.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140926235701/http://abccalgary.com/schools.html . 2014-09-26.