page_title: Almaguin Highlands Secondary School
section_title: The Old School
hierarchical_section_title: Almaguin Highlands Secondary School / History / The Old School
caption_attribution_description: English: Almaguin Highlands Secondary School, Old Building
context_page_description: Almaguin Highlands Secondary School is an English public high school located in Strong, Ontario between the towns of South River, Ontario and Sundridge, Ontario. The school is part of the Near North District School Board and is responsible for the education of students in grades 9-12 in the east side of the Parry Sound District, the school serves 19 small communities and townships.
  Students and Athletes at AHSS are known as Highlanders, the schools colours are dark green, black, & gold.
  Almaguin Highlands Secondary School was founded in 1959, the new and currently used school building was founded in September 2011.
context_section_description: AHSS (known then as Sundridge-South River Secondary School) was originally built to replace Sundridge High School, Sundridge and South River High School, South River. In the early 1960s the building underwent a giant expansion (bigger addition then the size of the original school) to become Almaguin Highlands Secondary School, this new school also eliminated the need of Burk's Falls High School, Burk's Falls and Powassan High School, Powassan. This new school had a reach from Nipissing in the north to Magnetawan in the West and Novar in the south, including all area between.
caption: The Old AHSS, July 2012
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