History
Middlefield Collegiate Institute is a relatively new school in Markham, only 20 years old. The school was built in 1992 to relieve pressure from Milliken Mills High School because of the quickly expanding population of the newly developed East Milliken neighbourhood, which was formerly forest around the Rouge River. Until 2000, the school was underused, with no more than 130 students graduating each year (compared to about 450 in 2010-2011). Thanks to a large development process and an even bigger immigrant influx, the school population almost doubled in the next five years and has been steadily, but gradually climbing since then.
In 2008, Middlefield had its first major expansion, building a tech wing with six new classrooms in the Southern Wing. It currently houses the Auto, Construction, Hairstyling tech classes, and some Applied English classes and Communication Tech classes.
In March 2012, the main entrance at the Highglen and Middlefield intersections was closed because of roof leaks. This has now been fixed and the entrance has re-opened as of April 2012. Also in April 2012, Natasha Kaan, of the Guidance Department, won Teacher of the Year. In June 2012 current principal Annette Oliver was relegated to a different school after serving as principal for the last four years. She was replaced with Mr. Tse.
Middlefield is notable for its very high South Asian student and teacher population. Two of the three vice-principals are of South Asian descent, Mr. Gill (Indian) and Ms. Pathy (Tamil). Also, there are several teachers of South Asian decent in the school as well, making up little over a fifth of the teachers.
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