KCS High School |

On September 5, 1989, KCS opened its doors to 50 students from grades 1-5. Seven staff members and a host of volunteers worked tirelessly to make our school a reality back then. From such modest beginnings, we have grown to a school of 411 students from PK-8 and with a faculty and staff of 61. Over the past 25 years, we added on to our facility four times:

September 1995: our library, a couple of classrooms and some change rooms
March 2003: six classrooms
December 2009: eight classrooms, a new science lab, two music rooms, a small gym and some office space
June 2013: renovated and upgraded former SGNS space as a result of an amalgamation that was announced in Fall 2012

And now we are preparing to build a high school by September 2016. Given all that has been accomplished so far in KCS history, I am confident that next 25 years will bring many more successes and memories. But before we look forward let’s take a look back to 1989 and what some of our KCS people were up to 25 years ago…

The song Walk Like An Egyptian topped the Billboard Charts
Mrs. Hoggarth, our teacher-librarian, got engaged.
The Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan and The Berlin Wall began to be dismantled
Mr. Kolozetti went to his first RUSH concert…he’s been to 15+ RUSH concerts since then
The World Wide Web was first conceived of in Switzerland by Tim Berners-Lee, which would be opened to the public for free use in 1993
Meghan DeCaria, one of our teachers, was born
The television show Seinfeld premiered
Mrs. Borg had a French poodle named Pierre
An earthquake in San Francisco disrupted the World Series
Anatoli Guelfgat, our Facilities Manager, was living in Leningrad, Soviet Union (emigrated to Canada in November 1990)
First episodes of The Simpsons shown
Ms. Gaudet won a grade 9 basketball championship in Nova Scotia
Price of gold was approximately $381 (U.S.)
Ms. Dulmage was going to CFNY concerts at the Etobicoke Olympium
Brian Mulroney was Canada’s Prime Minister; David Peterson was Ontario’s Premier; Art Eggleton was Toronto’s mayor
Mr. Sawyer started his undergraduate degree.
The SkyDome (now known as the Rogers Centre) opened
Madame Barchuk was in two musicals: Annie and HMS Pinafore.
Toyota launched Lexus
Mrs. Freeman was pregnant with her daughter, Rebecca
The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit