Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute was built in 1961 and accepted its first students in September 1962 with a 225,191 sq. ft. building consisting of five stairwells, a circular cafeteria that looked onto Midland Avenue, a two floor library with two seminar rooms, wide guidance area, larger atrium, and a larger auditorium with more than 928 seats. Other features included 33 academic classrooms, four drafting rooms, two home economics rooms, one large lecture hall, four performing art rooms for music/dance/drama, two visual art rooms, five science labs, three gymnasia with the larger one that can be partitioned into two smaller gyms, swimming pool, and several tech programs consisting of hairstyling room, large multi-car automobile repair hangar/repair and carpentry/construction shops with four garage doors that most schools did not have. It also has the large athletic field as well the track and football/soccer fields with an attached hill.

Declining enrollment forced the school to close in June 2000, with the building leased to Bond Education Group. In September 2010, Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies occupies most of the building with the exception of the western wing occupied by Caring & Safe Schools (program for suspended/expelled students), the tech wing by South East Year Round Alternative Centre alternative school, most of the south wing in the ground floor by Not Your Average Day Care and the swimming pool leased by Olympian School of Swimming.

• Architect - Craig, Madill, Abram and Ingleson  <-- More buildings by this architect.
• Architect - Craig, Madill, Abram and Ingleson  <-- More buildings by this architect.