continuation school

noun, in rural Ontario, a small secondary school coming under the jurisdiction of a municipal public school board (DCHP)

“We did have a continuation school on Wolfe Island … there’s one just at the foot of the Village that gave you grades nine and ten. So very rare did anyone go beyond the nine and ten.”

“That was what they call a continuation school, where they taught first form and second form high school. Then you had to go to Kingston for the next.”

“And then on the side of the old public school was the continuation school, on the back side.”

“There was eight grades — one to eight — and then you went over to continuation school, which was nine and ten.”

“I went to The Ridge School, Number Three, out there, and then I went to the continuation school.”

“We had two years of high schooling on the Island at that time.”
“Yeah, called the continuation school.”
“Continuation school, in those days, you know, well, like today they go back and forth. In those days, I lived five miles from the high school, but you boarded all week.”

“I went to what we called senior fourth at that time, in a little school. And then we went to a continuation school in the Village, grades nine and ten. And then if you wanted to get better education, you went to Kingston, or higher education, I should say. But everybody used to tell me my grade ten education was like a university education.”

“They were there from all the schools on the Island, the separate school and the public schools.”
“They would all come together for the continuation [school].”