Sackville High School is a Canadian public high school located in Lower Sackville, a suburban community of the

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, Canada. It is operated by the

Halifax Regional Centre for Education The Halifax Regional Centre for Education (formerly Halifax Regional School Board) is the public school district responsible for 136 elementary, junior high, and high schools located in the Halifax Regional Municipality in Halifax County, Nova Scot ...

(HRCE). Sackville High School's feeder schools are A.J. Smeltzer Junior High School and Leslie Thomas Junior High School. Along with English, Sackville High offers the

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program for all students in grades 9–12. It also has the largest gymnasium in the Atlantic provinces.

Notable events

*Sackville High helped host a Ukrainian student survivor of the

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; the school was later featured in the book ''Out of Chernobyl: A Girl Named Olga''. *In 2005, an anchorwoman visited Sackville High School for CTV News to investigate rumours of an "underground fight club" happening on school grounds. The club turned out to be real, but as a number of member students attested, "all in good fun". *In 2021, Sackville High School constructed a tribute to

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Canadian children killed in the residential school system. Sackville High offers courses in Indigenous Studies, as well as copies of fiction and non-fiction Indigenous books in its school library.

References

External links

School's website

School profile at Halifax Regional School BoardAthletics Website
{{Authority control High schools in Halifax, Nova Scotia Educational institutions established in 1972