Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts ; formerly Wexford Collegiate Institute is a public high school located in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Run and organized by the Toronto District School Board, the school officially opened its doors to students in September 1965 as Wexford CI by the Scarborough Board of Education and was renamed Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in 2006 in recognition of its specialized arts programs.The school is located in the Wexford neighbourhood of Scarborough, north of the intersection of Lawrence Avenue and Pharmacy Avenue. The motto for the school is Palman Qui Meruit Ferat which means "Let him bear the palm who has deserved it".HistoryLocated on Pharmacy Avenue in Scarborough, Wexford is a mid-sized, three storey secondary school. The origins began when the Scarborough Board of Education decided to apply for accommodation for 1200 pupil secondary school named Northwest Collegiate Institute on April 2, 1962 and took steps to acquire the 8.59 acre farm owned by the late William Henry McGuire. Meanwhile, the Board offers $200,000 to James Worrall (McGuire’s son-in-law) who later accepted it.Page & Steele was appointed architects for the Northwest C.I. project and the contract for removal of buildings on the McGuire site was awarded for $1800.
