Bayview Secondary School, initially known as Bayview High School is a grade 9–12, 2-semester secondary school operated by the York Region District School Board. It is located just north of the northeast corner of Bayview Avenue and Major Mackenzie Drive in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Bayview S.S. was officially opened on March 19, 1961. Bayview S.S. is named after the street on which it is located. Its area used to be part of the Elliot farm. According to the Fraser Institute, the school ranked 9th in Ontario in a Fraser Institute ranking of all Ontario Secondary Schools in 2016-17. The school does not offer an AP program, though it does have a renowned IB program, only open to students who live in the school area. Bayview S.S. ranked second nationally in the 2011 Euclid mathematics contest for grade 12 students held by the University of Waterloo. Bayview also consistently ranks well in Computer Programming competitions such as the CCC or ECOO. Students of Bayview S.S. come from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In 2005, in the neighbourhood around Bayview Secondary School, about 40% of residents were of Chinese ethnic origin, 8.1% were of East Indian origin, and 5.9% were of Iranian origin. Enrollment Bayview S.S. had over 2000 students in September 2016. The York Region District School Board had not projected such a large enrollment at the beginning of the school year. The high enrollment was attributed to the 150 walk-in students at the beginning of the school year. Moreover, it was predicted that the student population would decrease that year because a new Catholic school was opened nearby, but enrollment went up instead of down. Many parents were concerned that Bayview's enrollment would keep rising in the near future because new condominium buildings would be completed at the Bayview and Major Mackenzie area in 2011. Prior to 2017, Bayview S.S. was the only secondary school in the York Region District School Board offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme, resulting in the high enrollment of students. Since 2017, other schools in the school board have opened their own IB programmes, allowing the school to restrict enrollment to only schools within the school boundary. Since then, enrollment has dropped significantly as students are not allowed to attend the school if they live outside of the school boundary. IB Programme The International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme at Bayview is a competitive