North York Board of Education

The North York Board of Education (NYBE, commonly known as School District 13), officially the Board of Education for the City of North York is the former public school board for the former city of North York in Ontario, Canada.

The TDSB Education Centre, located at 5050 Yonge Street, is the headquarters of the Toronto District School Board; it formerly housed NYBE offices
Board of Education for the City of North York
District 13
Location
5050 Yonge Street, North York, Ontario, M2N 5N8, Canada
Canada
Chair of the boardGerri Gershon
Director of educationMarguerite Jackson
District IDNYBE
Elected trustees14

In 1998, the provincial Government of Ontario passed legislation which amalgamated North York into the City of Toronto. As part of the amalgamation process, the NYBE ceased to exist. Today, administration of schools in North York is handled by the Toronto District School Board. The NYBE building was located at 5050 Yonge Street,[1] in the same complex as Mel Lastman Square, the former North York City Hall. This building now houses the Toronto District School Board offices.

Schools

North York operated various elementary, junior high, and secondary schools along with its alternative programs.[2]

Elementary schools
Name Address Opened Notes Image
Africentric Alternative School 1430 Sheppard Avenue West
North York, ON, M3M 2W9		 2009
  • Housed in the Sheppard Avenue Public School building. Post-amalgamation school
  • Alternative school.
Amesbury Middle School 201 Gracefield Avenue
North York, ON, M6L 1L7		 1959
  • Formerly Queensborough Junior High School
Ancaster Public School 44 Ancaster Road
North York, ON, M3K 1S6		 1957
Don Valley Junior High School
Burnett Public School 21 Eddiefield Avenue
North York, ON, M2N 3M5
  • Used as St. Edward Catholic School from 1985 to 2014.
  • Occupied by The Prestige School in April 2014.
Calico Public School 35 Calico Drive
North York, ON, M3L 1V5
  • Formerly attached by St. Blaise Catholic School (1976-1994)
C.B. Parsons Junior High School 2999 Dufferin Street
North York, ON, M6B 3T4
Cummer Public School 500 Cummer Avenue
North York, ON, M2M 2G5
Greenland Public School 15 Greenland Road
North York, ON, M3C 1N1
Hollywood Public School 360 Hollywood Avenue
North York, ON, M2N3L4
Lillian Public School 1059 Lillian Street
North York, ON, M2M 3G1		 1949
McNicoll Public School 155 McNicoll Avenue
North York, ON, M2H 2C1		 1966
Melody Public School 24 Strathburn Boulevard
North York, ON, M9M 2K3
  • Closed in 1986
  • Served as the South Campus for St. Basil-the-Great College School from 1987 to 1999.
  • Leased to the Taric Islamic School until 2006.
  • Portion sold to the TCDSB in 2009.
Pleasant View Junior High School 175 Brian Drive
North York, ON, M2J 3Y8		 1971
Sheppard Public School 1430 Sheppard Avenue West
North York, ON, M3M 2W9		 1958
Woodbine Junior High School 2900 Don Mills Road
North York, ON, M2J 3B6
Yvonne Public School 36 Yvonne Avenue
North York, ON, M3L 1C9
  • Sold to the TCDSB.
  • Demolished
  • Site now occupied by St. Andre Catholic School
Zion Heights Junior High School 5900 Leslie Street
North York, ON, M2H1J9		 1967

Secondary schools

[3]

French-language schools

Previously the district operated two French-language schools in addition to English-language schools. As of May 1980 the district operated two of the seven public French-language schools in Metropolitan Toronto, with the other five being operated by the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Toronto Catholic District School Board). The North York school board required that a potential student must know French before being admitted to a French-speaking school.[4] The Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto (CEFCUT) assumed control of French-language education in the Toronto area on 1 December 1988.[5]

In 1977 the school board voted to build a school out of surplus portable buildings on the site of the Ecole Etienne Brule, spending $120,000 to construct the school. The residents in the area where it was being constructed were against the proposal because 172 children from the area were bussed 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) away to another school, and the new school in their community would not serve them. At nighttime, when workers tried to move the portables onto the site, some residents tried to obstruct their efforts.[4]

References
  1. Home page. (Archive) North York Board of Education. Retrieved on November 12, 2010. "5050 Yonge Street, North York, Ontario Canada, M2N 5N8, 416-395-4661"
  2. "North York School Directory." (Archive) North York Board of Education. July 3, 1997. Retrieved on November 12, 2010.
  3. "Secondary School Directory." (Archive) North York Board of Education. July 3, 1997. Retrieved on November 12, 2010.
  4. "Toronto has 7 public schools for French-speaking children." The Canadian Press (CP) at Montreal Gazette. Wednesday May 21, 1980. p. 66. Retrieved from Google News (66 of 141) on July 24, 2013.
  5. Behiels, Michael D. La francophonie canadienne: renouveau constitutionnel et gouvernance scolaire (Issue 12 of Collection Amérique française, ISSN 1480-4735). University of Ottawa Press, 2005. ISBN 2760306003, 9782760306004. p. 133. "Le Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto (CEFCUT), le 1er décembre 1988, s'établit dans un climat beaucoup moins acrimonieux qu'à Ottawa-Carleton. Jusqu'en 1987, les conseils scolaires de Toronto, North York et Scarborough ainsi que leurs CCLF gèrent les classes et les écoles de langue française qui accueillent près de 1700 élèves."

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