Toronto Catholic District School Board formerly Metropolitan Separate School Board (MSSB) |
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80 Sheppard Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, M2N 6E8, Canada Canada |
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Motto | "Transforming the world through witness, faith, innovation and action." |
Established | April 2, 1953 (MSSB) January 1, 1998 (separation of French schools) |
Closed | December 31, 1997 (MSSB) |
Superintendents | 8 (areas) 1 (Student Success and Adult Learning Centres) |
Schools | 167 elementary schools 29 secondary schools 3 combined schools 2 alternative schools |
Budget | CA$1.2B million (2014–2015) |
District ID | B67059 |
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Chair of the Board | Angela Kennedy |
Director of Education | Angela Gauthier |
Elected trustees | 12 |
Student trustees | Karina Dubrovskaya and Alison Gacad (2015–2016) |
Website | www |
The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB, known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 40 prior to 1999) is an English-language public-separate school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada, headquartered in North York. It is one of the two English boards of education in the City of Toronto, serving the former municipalities of Scarborough, North York, York, East York, Old Toronto and Etobicoke. With 85,864 students, the TCDSB is one of the largest school boards in Canada, and is the largest publicly funded Catholic school board in the world. Until 1998, it was known as the Metropolitan Separate School Board (MSSB) as an anglophone and francophone separate school district.
Prior to 1998, the Metropolitan Separate School Board was the governing body of all publicly funded Roman Catholic schools in Toronto. In 1998, the board was reorganised, resulting in the separation of English and French language schools, the latter of which are now part of the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud. The resulting board was named the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
The Toronto Catholic District School Board mission statement relies on as "an inclusive learning community uniting home, parish and school and rooted in the love of Christ" that "educates students to grow in grace and knowledge and to lead lives of faith, hope and charity." The vision encourages learning communities of the Board to "transform the world through witness, faith, innovation and action."