Kelvin High School

Kelvin High School is a public high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The school is located in the neighbourhood of River Heights. Kelvin teaches grades 9 to 12 and is part of the South District of the Winnipeg School Division. History The school was founded in 1912 as Kelvin Technical High School. The name was later changed to Kelvin High School, because of the increasingly academic focus of the school and the shift in the term "technical" in an educational sense. The school is named after the mathematical physicist and engineer William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. Many Kelvin High School students fought in World War II. More than fifty were killed in battle. This inspired the 2005 documentary, The Boys of Kelvin High: Canadians in Bomber Command, which was produced by Clifford Chadderton, a distinguished Canadian Forces infantry commander and Kelvin High School alumnus. The original 1912 school building was replaced by the current one in 1964. The French Immersion Program was introduced to the school in 1978 and the International Baccalaureate Program was introduced in 1981. In the 1991-92 school year, the Kelvin High School Charter of Rights and Responsibilities, which contains the rights of those who attend Kelvin, was ratified by the students.