Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School
Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School | |
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2 St. Andrew's Boulevard , , Canada | |
Coordinates | 43°42′08″N 79°33′00″W / 43.702087°N 79.549924°WCoordinates: 43°42′08″N 79°33′00″W / 43.702087°N 79.549924°W |
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School type | Catholic High school |
Motto | Crescamus in Christum (Let us Grow in Christ) |
Founded | 1978 |
Closed | 2017 |
School board | Toronto Catholic District School Board |
Superintendent | Loretta Notten Area 1 |
Area trustee | Joseph Martino Ward 1 |
School number | 525 / 703184 |
Principal | Michael Rossetti |
Grades | 12 |
Enrollment | 97 (2016-17) |
Language | English |
Schedule type | Semestered |
Colour(s) | Green and Gold |
Slogan | Reason, Religion, and Kindness |
Team name | Bosco Eagles |
Parish | Transfiguration |
Specialist High Skills Major | Hospitality & Tourism Non-Profit |
Program Focus | Broad-based Technology Gifted Advanced Placement Global Education Self-Directed Learning |
Website | [1] |
Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School (also called Don Bosco, Don Bosco CSS, DBCSS, Don Bosco Toronto, or simply Bosco), was a Toronto Catholic District School Board secondary school facility in Etobicoke in the city of Toronto, Ontario, located north of the intersection of Islington Avenue and Dixon Road in the Kingsview Village neighbourhood.
The school opened in 1978 by the Salesians of Don Bosco religious orders as Central Etobicoke's first Catholic high school and moved into the former Keiller Mackay Collegiate Institute building, constructed and opened in 1971 by the Etobicoke Board of Education, in 1983. Don Bosco became fully publicly funded by the Metropolitan Separate School Board in 1987. Many years later, the board closed Don Bosco due to dwindling enrollment in 2017 and the building became the temporary home for the Toronto Argonauts practice facility, with a short-term lease of the facility from the TCDSB.[1]
In the school's later years, Don Bosco became famous for then-Mayor Rob Ford's notorious football program.
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History
The school was named after Saint John Bosco since 1978. During the 2000s up to 2013, the school was known for having former Toronto mayor Rob Ford as its school coach. In 2014, Don Bosco adopted a Self-Directed Learning program, similar to that of Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough, becoming only the second such school in the GTA and third in Ontario to do so. The school subsequently disbanded this method and returned to the regular class system.
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References
- ^ "Toronto Argonauts to move into new practice facility at former high school". National Post. The Canadian Press. 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
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