Fisher Park High School (1949–1987) is a closed High School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Located within a kilometer of Island Park Drive, Fisher Park's student population included children of many of Ottawa's wealthier citizens and a large contingent of Ottawa's Portuguese and Italian communities. The area contains a number of embassies, and occasionally the children of ambassadors attended the school. During the late 1960s and early '70s the Ottawa School Board experimented at Fisher Park with extended freedom for students, e.g., allowing optional attendance at class and exemption from exams if they maintained consistently high grades.
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