Highland Secondary School (Dundas, Ontario)

Highland Secondary School was a high school in Dundas, Ontario that opened in 1966. The school was a member of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, in Ward 13. Highland was originally conceived to be 25% Academic and 75% Vocational, but evolved into a fully comprehensive secondary school. Only 60% of Highland Secondary School students who graduated pursued post-secondary education, making Highland one of the lowest in the board. Highland Secondary was renamed Dundas Valley Secondary in June 2014, when nearby Parkside Secondary closed.

Technological programs
Highland Secondary School offered five specialized technological programs that gave interested students training in a specific field of interest. The program fields were: Transportation, Construction, Precision Machining, Electronic Design, Communication – specialties in cabinet making, pneumatics, aviation.

Program highlights
Highland Secondary School took part in the following programs:
 * Variety of courses including: LDCC, Applied, Academic, Open, college, Workplace, university
 * Award-winning arts program: Music, Art, Drama
 * Yearbook – 2 credit course
 * Student Success team of teachers to guide, mentor, and track all students
 * Individual timetabling for students considered to be at risk
 * Study Hall at lunch for Grade 9 and 10s
 * In-class OSSLT preparation
 * S.T.E.P. (Summer Transitions program for Grade 8 – 9)
 * Caring Adult program

Clubs and activities
Highland Secondary School offered the following clubs and activities:
 * Jr. Concert Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Sr. Jazz Band
 * Badminton
 * Curling
 * Basketball
 * Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding Teams
 * Track and Field
 * Baseball
 * Golf
 * Cross-Country
 * Soccer
 * Tennis
 * Touch Football
 * Volleyball
 * Football (male)
 * Waterpolo
 * Hockey
 * Indoor Track
 * Councils (Student, Grad, Music, Visual Arts, Boys’ Athletics, Girls’ Athletics)
 * HAVEN (social justice) / WAC (World Awareness)
 * Highland Writers' Guild / Drama Student Federation
 * Leadership Camp / DECA
 * Feel the Power, Feel the Fit (Girls’ Fitness)
 * Library / Chess / Model Building / Philosophy/ Sound & Light / Anime
 * Knitting
 * Cancer Awareness
 * Friends of Diversity
 * Dance Team
 * GLOW
 * Roseberry's Board Games Club