Bishop Scalabrini School History

Bishop Scalabrini Catholic Elementary School was built in 1987 to accommodate the increasing student enrollment at Metropolitan Andrei Elementary School. The school board altered the intake boundries for Metropolitan Andrei to allow a portion of the student population to move from that location to Bishop Scalabrini.

Rev. Camillo Lando blessed the new one-storey structure the last of it's kind built by the board on June 5, 1988. The first Principal was Mr. C. Dillon.

The school was designed to accommodate 375 students. However, new housing developments west of Confederation Parkway quickly raised the school's population to soar to over 1000 students within the first three years. At the height of capacity, the school had twenty-two portables.

The school board assessed this enrollment problem and decided to build another new school. It altered the intake boundries for Bishop Scalabrini to allow a portion of the student population to move to the new school, St. Philip.