Parkside Collegiate Institute
Parkside Collegiate Institute (PCI), with a population of over 1,000 students, is the largest of four secondary schools in St. Thomas, Ontario.Parkside is a composite school offering pathways for those bound for the workforce, for college and for university.It is the only secondary school in Elgin County that offers a French immersion program.Parkside also has many extracurricular activities, such as golf, curling, fishing, tennis, badminton, basketball, baseball, volleyball, football, rugby, soccer, hockey, field hockey, track and field, grade 9–12 band, cheerleading, choir, robotics and improv.Facility upgrades include the resurfacing of the rubberized track, the installation of lights around the football field, the construction of a greenhouse, the addition of solar panels to the school roof, and the construction of a storage building for the extracurricular Canadian football program.