Toronto high schools lag behind in latest academic ranking
Posted February 28, 2016 1:39 pm.
Last Updated February 28, 2016 2:22 pm.
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Report cards are out for Toronto’s high schools and the results are below average.
The Fraser Institute ranked 676 public, Catholic, and independent schools using data from the annual province-wide tests of literacy and math skills.
Topping the list again is St. Michael’s Choir school in Toronto with a 9.7 rating out of 10. It is one of only two Toronto schools ranked in the top-10 – Ursula Franklin Academy being the other.
The rest of the top-10 is comprised of schools from London, Ont., Mississauga, Gloucester, Thornhill, Kanata, Hawkesbury, Oakville, Markham and Unionville.
Only three Toronto schools were ranked in the top-20 and 26 in the top-100.
Out of 108 Toronto schools in the report, only 12 managed to improve their rating from the previous year.
The average rating for Toronto schools is 5.5 while the average provincial rating is 6.0.
The conservative think tank also found that in 88 per cent of the schools, female students are outperforming male students – and the gap is widening.
To see how your neighborhood schools did in the latest report, click here.
