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John Polanyi Collegiate Institute
John Polanyi Collegiate Institute
	John Polanyi C.I. occupies the former Bathurst Heights school.
Address
	640 Lawrence Avenue West; Toronto, Ontario, M6A 1B1; Canada
Coordinates	43°43′03″N 79°26′24″W / 43.717586°N 79.440122°W
Information
Former names	Sir Sanford Fleming Secondary School
School type	High school
Motto	Motto: Scientia Est Potentia; ("Knowledge Is Power")
Religious affiliation(s)	Secular
Founded	1964
Sister school	Flemington Public School and Lawrence Heights Middle School
School board	Toronto District School Board; (North York Board of Education)
Superintendent	Curtis Ennis; LN04
Area trustee	Shelley Laskin; Ward 8
School number	3437 / 906736
Principal	Margaret Greenberg
Grades	9-12/13
Language	English
Colour(s)	Blue and white
Mascot	Jaguar
Team name	Fleming Chargers (1964–2011); Polanyi Jaguars (2011–present)
Rival	Downsview Secondary School
Newspaper	The [Paw] Print
Website	jpci.ca

John Polanyi Collegiate Institute (JPCI), formerly Sir Sandford Fleming Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is housed in the former Bathurst Heights Secondary School building. It is located in the North York district, near Lawrence Avenue West and Allen Road in the area of Lawrence Heights. Prior to 1998, the school was part of the North York Board of Education.

It is a semestered school offering a "full range of university, college and apprenticeship programs."^[1] The school was originally named after the Scottish-Canadian inventor of time zones Sandford Fleming.

History

Sir Sandford Fleming Secondary School was constructed and opened in September 1964. The building shares the same design as Newtonbrook Secondary School. The teams name was known as the Chargers. On September 6, 2011, the school was renamed to John Polanyi Collegiate Institute with the Fleming staff and students moving into the former Bathurst Heights Secondary School on Lawrence and Allen.^[2] The name of the school team was changed to the Jaguars with their colours being blue and black.

Origins of Bathurst Heights

Bathurst Heights Secondary School opened on September 4, 1951, as North York's second high school (the first being Earl Haig Secondary School) and officially opened on May 29, 1952. Six additions were made throughout the years and adult education was introduced before its program being abolished in 2000. After years of enrolment declining, Bathurst Heights closed its doors as a regular operating school on June 23, 2001.

In 2004 the school was used in the filming of the Zero Hour episode: Massacre at Columbine High.^[3]

In the 2000s, the Toronto Catholic District School Board used the Bathurst Heights building to house the students from Brebeuf College School during re-construction and later Dante Alighieri Academy Beatrice Campus.

The school's building is now leased out by the Toronto District School Board to several tenants: