Colonel By Secondary School is a IB Diploma Programme / IB school in Ottawa, Canada. Founded in 1972.
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Est. 1972
Year Founded
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Curricula Offered
IB Diploma ProgrammeYes
IBYes
Accreditations
IB
Languages of Instruction
English
Key facts
Founded
1972
About
Colonel By Secondary School is a high school in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a non-semestered school, and was the only English public school in Ottawa that offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma programme until Merivale High School began its IB programme in September 2019. Colonel By has a reputation locally and provincially as an academically rigorous school. In the 2018–19 school year, it was ranked the sixth best secondary school in Ontario by the Fraser Institute.
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