Канаданың Миссиссауга қаласындағы Cawthra Park орта мектебі

High school in Mississauga, Canada

Cawthra Park Secondary School, also known as CPSS, is a public high school built in 1972 located in Southeast Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two regional arts schools in the Peel District School Board. Cawthra Park provides instruction to students from grades 9 to 12. Cawthra Park offers a Regional Arts Program, which Peel students may audition to attend, and a mainstream option for locals students. CPSS is one of the few secondary schools in Mississauga with an active and operational public pool facility owned and operated by the City of Mississauga. Starting in 2023, a new pool aquatic program and facility will open at the Carmen Corbasson Community Centre (on the same land of the school) and Cawthra Park Pool will be decommissioned. The principal is Steven Keenleyside, and the vice principals are Barbara Gordon and Sian Evans as of March 2024.

Cawthra Park is home to Peel's Regional Arts Program (RAP), for which students audition to study music, dance, dramatic arts or visual arts. Approximately two thirds of Cawthra's students are in the RAP program, with the remaining students coming from the local area. Cawthra offers a Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) in Arts & Culture, allowing students to complete additional certifications and training.

In 2017–2018, the school exceeded provincial averages for both the EQAO and OSSLT test scores.

The music department has performed over the years at various venues, including mass at the Vatican City, onstage at Disney's Magic Kingdom, Austria, and for the former American ambassador to Canada, David Wilkins. The music department runs many choral and instrumental ensembles, including Jazz Lab, Guitar Ensemble, Momentum, and the Junior and Senior Concert Bands. The Ritz, a concert choir with over 360 members, is the largest in North America. In May and June 2013, the Cawthra Park Chamber Choir performed with The Rolling Stones in the Air Canada Centre. Every ensemble has achieved gold status at MusicFest, and has received awards at national competitions.

Cawthra's drama facilities include three studios and an auditorium that seats 667. Approximately sixty drama students are accepted per year. The program introduces its students to theatre production, musical theatre, and set and costume design. The drama department produces the school's spring play and monitors the school's annual participation in the National Theatre School Drama Festival. The department also shares directorial responsibilities with its music and dance counterparts for the fall musical.

The visual arts department offers courses to students both in the art program as well as to students pursuing other disciplines. Courses include traditional, modern and post modern art, desktop design, media arts and photography. The department also has ties to other departments at Cawthra Park such as fashion and communication technology. During the annual Visual Arts SpringFest, the school is transformed into an art gallery. Senior visual arts students partake in an art focused week long class trip to New York City.

The dance curriculum includes ballet, modern dance, musical theater and jazz. Students are also required to study a theoretical curriculum that includes the history of dance, kinesiology, composition, criticism and social issues relating to the dance community such as eating disorders and arthritis. The department offers elective dance courses for students not enrolled in the dance program, and dance opportunities for all students. Major events for the dance department include Dance Springfest in early April and Dance Mosaix in late May.