| Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute For People | |
| Address: | 155 Paisley Street |
| Country: | Canada |
| Coordinates: | 43.5428°N -80.2592°W |
| Schooltype: | Public |
| Motto: | Hic Patet Ingeniis Campus |
| Motto Translation: | "Here lies open the field for the quest of knowledge=Lambo." |
| Founded: | 1854 |
| Principal: | James Cako |
| Grades: | 9-12+ |
| Enrollment: | 1555 |
| Enrollment As Of: | October 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Colours: | Green and white |
| Team Name: | Gaels |
The Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute (GCVI, Guelph C.V.I., GC) is a public high school in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The school is the oldest continuously operating public high school in Guelph, and the third oldest in the province of Ontario, Canada.
The Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute consists of four main buildings. The Old Building (building A) consists of three levels. The bottom level holds the visual arts department, chemistry department and a general sciences department. The floor above holds the guidance department, main office, geography department, math department and an auditorium that extends up into the top floor. The top floor holds the English department, family studies department and the biology department.
Building B (the New Building) has three levels as well. The business and economics departments, as well as the physics department and the nurse's office, are located on the lowest floor. A computer education department is located on the second level. The history and current languages departments are on the upper floor.Building C is divided into two floors. Three distinct gymnasiums are located on the first floor. The cafeteria of the school is above.The school's technology and music departments are housed in Building D. There are nine separate shops in the technological sector. They include: integrated technology, transportation technology, manufacturing technology, construction technology, communication technology, technological design, computer engineering technology and computer information science.
The Old Building of the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute consists of building styles that are unique only to that school in the City of Guelph. The original oak doors are still present from the building's original construction in 1923. Marble and granite encase all of the hallway floors throughout The Old Building. The hallways on the main floor of The Old Building measure an outstanding 18 ft. in height. The main entrance way into the school is surrounded by a large archway. It is easy to see the vast number of students who have walked the halls of G.C.V.I. as there are large indents that have been left in the granite stairways of the school from many thousands of feet walking up and down them each day.
Philip Clendenning. Soviet Observer. A Memoir of my very small Part in the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Newtonville, MA 2012). Long chapter on student life at GCVI, 1955–1960.