Toronto District School Board | |
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5050 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, M2N 5N8 Canada |
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District information | |
Established | January 1, 1998 (through merger of 7 boards) |
Superintendents | 20 (areas) 2 (Alternative and Adult programs) |
Schools | 451 elementary schools 105 secondary schools 5 adult education schools |
Budget | ~CA$3 billion (2016-2017) |
District ID | B66052 |
Other information | |
Chair of the Board | Robin Pilkey |
Director of Education | John Malloy (Acting) |
Elected trustees | 22 |
Student trustees | 2 |
Website | www |
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB; known as English-language Public District School Board No. 12 prior to 1999) is the English-language public-secular school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The minority public-secular francophone (Conseil scolaire Viamonde), public-separate anglophone (Toronto Catholic District School Board), and public-separate francophone (Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud) communities of Toronto also have their own publicly funded school boards and schools that operate in the same area, but which are independent of the TDSB. Its headquarters are in North York. The TDSB is Canada's largest school board and the fourth largest school board in North America.
The TDSB was created in 1998 following 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.
The Metropolitan Toronto School Board, a "super-ordinate umbrella board" created in 1953 to coordinate activities and to apportion tax revenues equitably across the school boards within Metro Toronto, was dissolved at this time, with its functions merged into the new board. The Metropolitan Toronto School Board's head office was located at the former York Mills Public School site on Campbell Crescent (built 1956 and demolished 2004).