Don Mills Collegiate Institute

Don Mills Collegiate Institute (also called Don Mills CI, DMCI, DM or Don Mills) is a high school in the community of Don Mills in Toronto. It serves an ethnically diverse student population of approximately 1000. As of 2006, 66% of students speak a first language other than English. The school opened in 1959 by the North York Board of Education in which was later became part of the Toronto District School Board since 1998.

History and location

Initially, the board planned to build two separate schools on the site with a shared heating plant, but in October 1957, trustee Dorothy Bishop prepared a report which raised the possibility of saving money by placing the two schools under one roof, as had previously been done in Vancouver and Calgary.

Land for both a high school and junior high school to serve residents of Don Mills was acquired in 1957 by the North York Board of Education in a land swap with E. P. Taylor‘s Don Mills Development Company. The school board had owned a similarly-sized plot of land on Don Mills Road, which it exchanged for the property at Lawrence Avenue and The Donway East. It was completed in time for the first classes which occurred on September 8, 1959. Currently, the school can be accommodated up to 804 students in capacity.