McRoberts Secondary School
high school in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Hugh McRoberts Secondary School, officially École Secondaire Hugh McRoberts Secondary School, is a Canadian public school in Richmond, British Columbia and is a part of School District 38 Richmond. It is one of the two schools in Richmond that offer the French Immersion Secondary School program (the other being McMath). McRoberts is situated at Garden City Road and Williams Road. The school logo and mascot is a "Striker", which is depicted as a mounted knight carrying a lance or a claymore. The logo had previously been a shamrock.
Being a dual-track school, McRoberts is the English catchment school for regular programme students from Bridge, Lee (west of Garden City Road), and Whiteside Elementaries and the French catchment for French Immersion students from Anderson, Bridge, Mitchell, and Whiteside Elementaries.
In 2006, the Fraser Institute evaluated Hugh McRoberts Secondary as the highest ranking school compared to other secondary schools in Richmond, with an average ranking of 8.3 out of 10.0 for all schools in the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
History
This school was named after Hugh McRoberts (1815–1883), one of the first European settlers on Sea Island (formerly referred to as McRoberts' Island). McRoberts was born in Ireland and moved to Australia before he moved to Canada. In 1862, McRoberts purchased 1,600 acres of land on Sea Island and named his farm "Richmond," after his wife's birthplace in England.
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