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530 Laval St, Oshawa, ON L1J 6R2, Canada
- SCHOOL TYPE: Public
- WEBSITE: College Hill PS
- SCHOOL LEVEL: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Elementary, and Middle
- GRADES OFFERED: PK - 8
College Hill Public School was built in 1953. Many additions and renovations have taken place since the school was opened. The main building has 10 classrooms, a library/resource centre and gym. Included in the classrooms in the building are one Special Education classroom for speech and language at the senior kindergarten level with individualized in-class programming as well as active integration and two Full Day Kindergarten rooms. The majority of our students are within walking distance from school and approximately half of our students stay for lunch.
The Vanier neighbourhood is in southwest Oshawa, and is a mixed area of residential subdivisions, large areas of retail/commercial, as well as undeveloped, open lands. Oshawa's large shopping mall, Oshawa Centre, is in the northeast region of Vanier, and there is also a shopping centre in the southwest. A recreation complex is in the west end, as well as the Durham campus of Trent University. Vanier's eastern boundary is the Oshawa Creek and the bike trail that runs along it. Housing is mixed, with single-detached homes, semi-detached, duplexes, low-rise apartment complexes, and townhomes. This is an older neighbourhood, with homes varying in age and style, mostly bungalows and side-splits from around the 1950s-1970s, as well as some older, 2-storey frame homes.