 With population growth increasing, the newly-formed Scarborough Board of Education (a board forerunner to the TDSB) opened several new schools beginning in the mid-late 1950s.Before the construction of the new local high school, students lived in the West Hill area attended Scarborough Collegiate Institute (renamed to R.H. King in 1954).The school, now known as "West Hill Collegiate Institute" began its construction 1954 and the staff was in place in May 1954.