St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School (London, Ontario)

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</gallery>St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School (STA) is a Catholic secondary school located in London, Ontario located in the west end of the city. It currently serves students in the London District Catholic School Board in the London Areas of Byron, Oakridge, Westmount, and Lambeth, and some areas outside of the city limits such as Delaware and Komoka and even as far as Mount Brydges.

History

STA was established at the site of the former St. Joseph Catholic school on Charles Street in 1990. Construction began on the school's permanent site in 1993, and the current building opened in 1994, and was highly technologically advanced for its time with internet access throughout the school, as well as cable television and VCRs in virtually every classroom. The building's size was inadequate to handle the influx of students to the school, and once the student parking lot became filled with 21 portable classrooms (rumoured to be the second highest in Ontario) in 1998 a satellite campus in downtown London was established at the former St. Peter's School on Clarence Street. From 1998 to 2001 grade nine students spent one semester at St. Peter's and the other half at the main STA campus. The campus was closed in 2001, a year after Mother Teresa Catholic School opened and relieved pressure from STA. At its peak in 2000, STA's population was about 1,800 students.

STA was built with a "cafetorium", a space...
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