Milliken Mills High School is a

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in the city of

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. It is one of 33 high schools in the

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. The high school's construction was not scheduled to finish until January 1989 because of a construction worker strike. The students were sent to Unionville High School on September 1988 for the first semester of the school year. Unionville High students went to school from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm and the Milliken Mills students went to school from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm. Milliken Mills was fully operational in Spring, 1989. Its service boundary area stretches north from

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, west to Warden Avenue, south from the 14th Avenue, and east to McCowan Road. Milliken Mills High School is a multicultural school at the level of both students and staff, a microcosm of the surrounding community of Markham. The school is equipped with over 300 computer workstations as of June 2013. Milliken Mills High School is 1 of 5 schools in the York Region District School Board that offer the

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along side Maple High School, Dr. G.W. Williams Secondary School, Bayview Secondary School, and Alexander Mackenzie High School.

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*Aldergrove Public School *Highgate Public School *Milliken Mills Public School *Randall Public School *Wilclay Public School

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, professional baseball player * Corey Muirhead,

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with the

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of the

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