Education in Toronto
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Toronto's elementary and high schools are operated by the Toronto District School Board and the separate Toronto Catholic District School Board. As a large city it is also home to a number of post-secondary educational institutions such as the University of Toronto. The city of Toronto also has a public library system to keep the minds of both young and old fresh.
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[edit] K-12 schools
[edit] Public Schools
[edit] French
[edit] Religious
[edit] Private Schools
There are also several well known private, University-preparatory schools, including:
- Upper Canada College (UCC)
- College of Toronto (CofT)
- St. Michael's College School (SMCS)
- Havergal College
- Bishop Strachan School (BSS)
- De La Salle College
- Branksome Hall
- Crescent School
- Montcrest School
- Royal St. George's College (RSGC)
- St. Clement's School
- University of Toronto Schools (UTS)
- The York School (TYS)
- Greenwood College School (GCS)
- Toronto French School (TFS)
There are also specialty schools such as the Ontario Science Centre Science School.
There is also a strong alternative school movement many of which are associated with the Toronto District School Board or private organizations.
[edit] Universities and Colleges
Toronto is home to a number of educational institutions, including the largest university in Canada, the University of Toronto
[edit] Universities
- University of Toronto - The largest university in Canada, which has a student population of more than 60,000 across three campuses (one downtown (St. George), one in Scarborough, and another in Mississauga).
- York University, the second largest university in Canada, has a student population of more than 50,000 students across two campuses. It houses Glendon College, one of the only two post-secondary educational institutions in the country where all students are taught in both English and French (the other being the University of Ottawa). Osgoode Law School is a branch of York University and serves as the largest law faculty in Ontario.
- Ryerson University, which is located in downtown Toronto, has a student base of 20,000 full-time students, and 60,000 continuing education students.
[edit] Colleges
Toronto has four post-secondary community college scattered across 29 campuses:
Recently, Toronto's community colleges have begun either offering their own bachelor's degree programmes or operating joint degree programmes with neighbouring universities.
[edit] Speciality
Other schools include the
- Royal Conservatory of Music and its associated Glenn Gould School, which are internationally recognised centres for musical training.
- Ontario College of Art and Design, and the highly respected and fourth-largest art school in North America.
Toronto also has several private and independent schools, at the secondary and post-secondary levels. These include the:
- International Academy of Design and Technology
- Trebas Institute[1]
- Tyndale University College and Seminary
Toronto, like many other Canadian cities, hosts a growing number of private English as a Second Language (ESL) schools and is home to as many as 10,000 ESL students at a time. These students come primarily from Latin America, East Asia and German-speaking Europe with surprisingly few coming from nearby French Canada.
