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This is a list of elementary schools in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). The TDSB is Canada's largest school board and was created in 1998 by the merger of the Board of Education for the City of York, the East York Board of Education, the North York Board of Education, the Scarborough Board of Education, the Etobicoke Board of Education and the Toronto Board of Education.
Education was important in the settlement of non-Indigenous families in the former Township of Scarborough. After the 1799 settlement of David and Mary Thomson (remembered in a Secondary School just west of their homestead), a schoolhouse was built near David and brother Andrew's farms; Eventually, Thomas Muir, father of Alexander Muir settled in the area to teach early generations of the ...
The school opened originally as a small elementary school called Fairhaven Public School that opened in 1954. SEE school began in 1971 as one of two alternative schools in the Etobicoke School Board. When the government of Mike Harris merged the Toronto area school boards and sharply cut budgets in 1998, the school was threatened with closure. [2]
When Scarborough became a part of Toronto in 1998, the Scarborough Board of Education became part of the new, but one of the largest boards on the continent, the Toronto District School Board. Changes in the new funding structure caused the creation of a short-list of 138 schools in Toronto proposed to be closed.
Education in Toronto is primarily provided publicly and is overseen by Ontario's Ministry of Education. The city is home to a number of elementary , secondary , and post-secondary institutions. In addition to those institutions, the city is also home to several specialty and supplementary schools , which provide schooling for specific crafts or ...
R. H. King Academy, formerly known as Scarborough High School, Scarborough Collegiate Institute and R.H. King Collegiate Institute is a secondary school and a de facto alternative school located in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, part of the Toronto District School Board. The school was established in 1922, then became a collegiate in 1930 ...
The school is also equipped with an in-school, 2-bay automotive workshop. In 2013, two students from the automotive classes won the Toronto Automotive Technology Competition. Agincourt is also home to their Award-winning FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1246 Skunkworks which competes at Ontario District FRC Events. The Robotics Program at ...
The Junior School is located on Dundas Street West in The Kingsway area of Etobicoke and the Senior School is located on Lake Shore Boulevard West in west Toronto, Ontario, Canada. References [ edit ]