About Us

Celebrate success at Central Elgin

Welcome to Central Elgin Collegiate Institute (CECI)! Located in St. Thomas, CECI is a highly regarded high school offering a wide range of academic, tech and arts programming. Our school is home to dozens of athletic teams, clubs, student associations and extracurricular activities, so every student can find success and prepare for their post-secondary goals. Go Titans!

Why Choose CECI?

CECI offers a variety of Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) options including Business and Health & Wellness to help students get a head start on their career aspirations.

The CECI Titans participate in many successful athletic teams, including volleyball, basketball, soccer, track and field, cross country, swimming, wrestling, rugby, golf, field hockey, badminton, tennis, pickleball, baseball, fastball, and ultimate frisbee!

Express your creativity and learn about new pathways through our Arts programming, including Music, Drama and Visual Arts. Titans can also explore their interests through creative clubs like Jazz Band, Choir, Drama Club, Improv Club, our Illustration Collective and more!

Explore your interests and find your community by joining any of our dozens of clubs and extracurricular activities! We offer everything from hobbies and creative activities to sports and Debate Club, as well as identity-affirming student groups like the Indigenous Students Association or Queer Straight Alliance. You can also give back to your community through initiatives like the Best Buddies Club or peer tutoring!

Information for New Titans

If a student arrives late to class, the student must report directly to the main office to obtain a late slip and sign a late sheet before going to the classroom. It is the teacher's responsibility to change the attendance in the system from ‘absent’ to ‘late’. Administration will contact parent/guardian/caregivers if there is a pattern of lates.

If a pattern of lates continues after parent/guardian contact, students will be required to serve a detention at lunch.

Regular attendance and punctuality are expectations of school and are important to student success.

Acceptable reasons for absences may include illness, religious holidays, and medical appointments that cannot be scheduled outside of school time.

Students may not be excused from class by parents or teachers to sleep in, to do homework, to miss tests, to go to work, or to attend a school sanctioned event for which they are not demitted by a staff supervisor.

Families are asked to plan vacations to coincide with school holidays.

Notes explaining absences should be brought to the office immediately upon a student’s return to school. The student’s full name, date, and reason for absence should be included with parent or guardian signature on the note.

In situations where an absence is known in advance, parents and guardians should notify the school prior to the absence. This can be done by calling the SchoolMessenger attendance line 24 hours a day at 1-844-305-3756 or by using the App. By verifying an absence before 9:30AM, you will prevent an automated call/ email.

Students who arrive back to school earlier than expected after having been demitted by parent or guardian must check in at the office.

Students who need to be excused during the school day must bring a note to the office before their first class of the day. A telephone call received from parent or guardian is also acceptable. Teachers cannot permit a student Under the age of 18 to leave class early without verification of parent or guardian consent.

Students who use e-scooters or e-bikes must follow Ontario Ministry of Transportation regulations, including being at least 16 years old and wearing a helmet if under 18.
For safety reasons, these devices must not be stored inside the school building due to the fire hazard risk associated with lithium-ion batteries.

Please use the Parent Portal to update personal information, such as addresses, email, cell number, etc. The Parent Portal is not interactive. To make corrections, please print and edit the form and send in with your student, or email the school at centralelgin@tvdsb.ca. Please include proof of address if applicable (copy of a bill, rental agreement with location and name, bill of sale).

Click here to access your Parent Portal (If you currently don't have an account, you will need to create one). Once you have logged into the Parent Portal complete the following:

Click blue bar with school name
Click on your student’s name in the “Students- Access to” box
From here you can see contact information, electronic Consent “forms”, medical information, attendance, timetables, mark history, credit summary information, and more.

All TVDSB schools will follow the same Code of Conduct. Please visit the board's website to review TVDSB's Code of Conduct expectations. Please note, the TVDSB Code of Conduct replaces the 'Titan Expectations'.