Sackville High School

Sackville High School is a Canadian public high school located in Lower Sackville, a suburban community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is operated by the Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE). Sackville High School's feeder schools are A.J. Smeltzer Junior High School and Leslie Thomas Junior High School.

Sackville High School
Location
1 Kingfisher Way Lower Sackville , Nova Scotia , B4C 2Y9 Canada
Coordinates	44°46′30″N 63°40′29″W
Information
School type	High school, Secondary
Founded	1972
School board	Halifax Regional Centre for Education
Principal	Canavan, Trina
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	776 (2023)[1]
Language	English, Early French Immersion, Late French Immersion
Area	143,528 ft2
Colour(s)	Orange and Black
Mascot	Dudley (Kingfisher)
Team name	Kingfishers
Website	svh.hrce.ca

Along with English, Sackville High offers the French immersion program for all students in grades 9–12. It also has the largest gymnasium in the Atlantic provinces.

Notable events

• Sackville High helped host a Ukrainian student survivor of the Chernobyl Disaster; the school was later featured in the book Out of Chernobyl: A Girl Named Olga.^[2]

• In 2005, an anchorwoman visited Sackville High School for CTV News to investigate rumours of an "underground fight club" happening on school grounds. The club turned out to be real, but as a number of member students attested, "all in good fun".^[3]

• In 2021, Sackville High School constructed a tribute to Indigenous Canadian children killed in the residential school system. Sackville High offers courses in Indigenous Studies, as well as copies of fiction and non-fiction Indigenous books in its school library.^[4]