St. Pius X High School (Ottawa)

St. Pius X High School is a secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1958, the school, operated by the publicly funded Ottawa Catholic School Board, teaches grades 9-12. As of March, enrollment stood at around 833 students.

In 1975, the school became a scene of a school shooting perpetrated by a senior student that killed 3 (including himself) and injured 5 others.

School shooting
St. Pius X High School was the scene of Canada's second school shooting on October 27, 1975. The gunman, Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old St. Pius student, opened fire on his classmates with a 12 gauge shotgun, killing one and wounding five before killing himself. Poulin had raped and stabbed 17-year-old Kim Rabot to death prior to the incident. He also attempted to burn down the house after he killed Rabot. A book entitled Rape of a Normal Mind was written about the incident.

Screwdriver fight
On October 16th, 2017, a brawl between students belonging mainly to the Syrian and Italo-Canadian cultural groups occurred at Steve MacLean Park. One student attempted to use a screwdriver as a weapon, but was unsuccessful in causing injury. 47 students were sent home for the day, while 8 faced longer term suspensions.

Notable alumni

 * Dan Aykroyd - actor
 * Brendan Bell - National Hockey League player
 * Walter Douglas Boyd - cardiac surgeon; performed world's first robot-assisted closed chest coronary artery bypass surgery
 * Rick Chiarelli - Ottawa City Councillor
 * Keith Egli - Ottawa City Councillor
 * Jim Foley - Canadian Football League player
 * Chelsey June - musician, member of the Indigenous duo Twin Flames (non-graduate)
 * Vincent Lam - writer, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures; winner of the 2006 Giller Prize
 * Jesse Palmer - retired National Football League player, participant in The Bachelor, ESPN football analyst
 * Mark Sutcliffe - 59th mayor of Ottawa.
 * Chris Therien - retired National Hockey League player (non-graduate)
 * Jason York - retired National Hockey League player (non-graduate), Team 1200 (Ottawa) radio host
 * Maria Galvano - from Conil, basketball player and regional champion of crosswords