Archbishop Romero Catholic Secondary School, which opened in February of 2005, is a regional school offering alternative programs for secondary school students who require a non-traditional approach to learning. Archbishop Romero has its roots in the former alternative education program known as Genesis.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of District Alternative Programs in partnership with Family, Community and Church offers youth a flexible Catholic Education Pathway to continue learning. Students enrolled in these programs are provided with an enhanced sense of belonging, engagement, and responsibility for learning which assists in reaching their full potential.
The goals of these programs broadly concern:
- helping students earn the credits required to graduate from secondary school;
- providing career development;
- fostering psycho-social development and
- facilitating transition to post-secondary and the workplace.
Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be open for you; For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8)
School History
​Archbishop Romero Catholic Secondary School, which opened in February of 2005, is a regional school offering alternative programs for secondary school students who require a non-traditional approach to learning. Archbishop Romero has its roots in the former alternative education program known as Genesis.
As a regional school, Archbishop Romero has a number of small facilities throughout Mississauga and Brampton. The school's programs include dual credit college transition, career opportunities in trades and technology in cooperation with Sheridan College, an outdoor education program, and cooperative education. It also offers flexible alternative learning, and programs for suspended and expelled students. The school takes a personalized approach to learning to promote growth and encourage students to develop skills for success.
A roundtable allows community partners, such as health care agencies, to work together to align the resources and services they put into programs.
The school is named after the late Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980) of El Salvador, a strong advocate of social justice who often spoke on behalf of marginalized and the voiceless. He was assassinated in 1980 after urging the soldiers to stop killing civilians.
The school motto, "Dream, Choose, Act, Succeed," is based on Archbishop Romero's statements "Aspire not to have more, but to be more."
