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How Schools Worked: Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940 (2011) 552pp; additional details; Harris, Robin S. A history of higher education in Canada, 1663-1960 (1976) in ERIC; Heyking, Amy von. Creating Citizens: History & Identity in Alberta’s Schools, 1905 to 1980 (2006).
Canada spends an average of about 5.3 percent of its GDP on education. [30] The country invests heavily in tertiary education (more than US$20,000 per student). [31] As of 2022, 89 percent of adults aged 25 to 64 have earned the equivalent of a high-school degree, compared to an OECD average of 75 percent. [28]
In most cases the elementary school ends at grade eight, and high school provides grades nine through twelve; however, there are some exceptions where there is a middle school provided. From 1889 to 1920s the school class organisation was for elementary levels; Standard I, II, III, IV and V; followed by secondary school beginning at Standard VI.
1871: The School Act makes elementary education compulsory and free up to age 12. [21] The Act also created two streams of secondary education: high schools, the lower stream, and collegiate institutes, the higher stream. Extra funding was provided for collegiate institutes "with a daily average attendance of sixty boys studying Latin and Greek ...
Strathcona High School, colloquially referred to as Scona and SCHS, is a public high school located in Edmonton, Alberta. The school was referred to as Strathcona Composite High School until 2014. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] A $6.1 million modernization project was completed in 2015 and the school now enrolls approximately 1700 students.
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Western Canada High School is a public high school in Calgary, Alberta that has operated since 1929. The high school was antedated by Western Canada College, a boys' preparatory school in the style of a British public school that opened in 1903. The College existed until the end of the 1926 academic year when it closed due to financial problems.