Grant Park High School is a high school located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, that was founded in 1959. It is part of the Winnipeg School Division and teaches grades 7 to 12.HistoryGrant Park High School is a grade 7-12 combined high school and middle school in Winnipeg, MB. It has a population of approximately 1200 students and 150 staff. GP is noted for academic, athletic and visual art excellence, and is a draw for many students because of the large variety of programs and courses available at the school.The land currently occupied by the school was originally a shanty town by the name of Rooster Town. This mainly Metis settlement existed from the late 1880s to the late 1950s, when it was bulldozed to make way for Grant Park Shopping Centre and Grant Park High School. It was a very low-income area, with mainly squatters - living in very poor conditions.Grant Park High School was officially opened on November 27, 1959. From the Winnipeg School Division history files:“Grant Park opened in 1959 with the “all-purpose” plan that was mindful of the ever-broadening concept of a high school: the original 1959 construction consisted of seventeen rooms with a visual education classroom, chemistry/physics classrooms and a biology classroom with lab, art room, library, music room, electrical and automotive industrial arts shops and an auditorium-gymnasium. In 1961 an addition was constructed which included sixteen additional classrooms, two science rooms, food and clothing labs and two additional industrial arts spaces. A larger addition was built in 1963, adding twenty-one more classrooms, science room, library, art room, language lab, a second gymnasium, lunchroom and alterations to the existing building, which have continued.”
