L.Y. Cairns School | |
Address: | 10510 45 Ave NW |
Postcode: | AB T6H 0A1 |
Country: | Canada |
Grades: | 7–12[1] |
Founded: | 1969 |
Coordinates: | 53.4837°N -113.5009°W |
District: | Edmonton Public Schools |
Mascot: | Colts |
Principal: | Errol Johnson |
L.Y. Cairns School is a Grade 7 to Grade 12 school in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, specializing towards special needs students with moderate to severe deficits. The school, built starting in 1968 and opened in 1969,[2] [3] is named after Supreme Court of Alberta judge and University of Alberta Chancellor Laurence Yeomans Cairns. In the 2018–2019 school year the school had 429 students enrolled.[1]
Since the year the school opened, it has maintained an annual tradition of the school staffincluding members of the Edmonton Police Service School Resource Officer Unit (since its own founding)serving a Christmas lunch to the students.[3]