Lorne Park Secondary School

Lorne Park Secondary School is a public high school located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It serves the Lorne Park area.HistoryWhen the population of Peel County began experiencing a population explosion in the 1950s, the secretary-treasurer for the South Peel Board of Education began negotiations to purchase land for a new school to be built on a 13½ acre site at the price of $32,469 CAD. Construction on the school began in 1957, and the total cost of the school (including the land) was $752,569.Billed as a very modern design when the school opened for students in January 1958, the main feature of the school, facing south onto Lorne Park Road, was a suspended concrete canopy with two-story windows. The school opened with 272 students and 16 teachers.While not in use presently, a firing range exists in the basement of the school (beneath the small gymnasium). It was built in order to secure extra funding during the Cold War period so that students could have a suitable area to practice in. When such a use became obscure, the firing range housed the drama department's props and costumes. It was permanently closed and removed from official architectural plans because of the archaic lead paint on its walls.