This topic came up after I read this article from Seattle about a high school radio station that’s actually on the air. In fact, there are literally hundreds of them in the U.S., almost of all of them low power, but at least they exist. The longest running examples have been broadcasting since 1949.

Canada, however, only has six of them – and four of those are located in Ontario. The closest one is in Thornhill, where RAV-FM (Radio At Vaughan) is supposed to be broadcasting at 90.7 FM. (The unfortunate real call letters are CFU758!)

I’m not even sure they’re on anymore or are still considered a school radio station, since I haven’t heard them in a while on that frequency. Plus, the place is no longer called Vaughan Secondary School, after political correctness had them renamed Hodan Nalayeh S.S. Hence, "RAV" no longer really fits.

I’ve been unable to find any updated website, surely a hallmark of any school station these days, and the last real posts from those that are still online are from 2016.
 
I certainly wish my high school had even a closed-circuit radio station within the building. It would have made those awful four years I spent there a lot better, and frankly I probably wouldn’t have been able to pull myself away from it. (To be fair, they did one year let us play music over the intercom system before classes started at 9 AM, and I volunteered to provide some of those tunes, although there was no “announcing” per se. I vividly recall one day coming into school and being asked what godawful shit I had been playing over the speakers. I later discovered that someone had put it on at the wrong speed and it was playing so slow it was almost unintelligible. And no one noticed!)
 
Does anyone know the fate of RAV-FM? They did have an LP licence but I’m not sure it still exists. If not, it’s a shame. My college radio days were some of the best I ever spent in the medium, although almost no one was listening. But you could get away with anything while learning what worked and what didn’t. It would have been great to have that way back in high school.

I just wish there were more of them in Canada but on an already over-crowded dial, that's not likely to happen again in the GTA.