St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School is a high school located in the west part of Oakville, Ontario, Canada. St. Thomas Aquinas is a member of the Halton Catholic District School Board. There are over 1100 students attending the school in grades 9 through 12. The school offers an International Baccalaureate program as well as academic programs for university-bound students, applied programs...
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Holy Name of Mary Catholic Secondary School is an all-girls regional high school in Brampton, Ontario, Canada founded by the Felician Sisters. Originally located in Mississauga, it relocated to Brampton in 2008. The address of the school is 115 Glenvale Blvd, Brampton, Ontario L6S 3J7. Holy Name of Mary Catholic Secondary School is the only single-sex school in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic...
The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), more commonly known as the International Baccalaureate (IB), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB Diploma Programme and the IB Career-related Programme for students aged 15 to 19, the IB Middle Years Programme for students aged 11 to 16, and the IB Primary...
State schools (also known outside the UK as public schools) generally refer to primary or secondary schools mandated for or offered to all children without charge, funded in whole or in part by taxation. The term may also refer to public institutions of post-secondary education. The term "public school" has different meanings in different parts of the world. In North America, a public school is a...
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, donations, and in some cases the investment yield of an endowment. It is governed by a board of directors that is elected by an independent...
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Catholic schools are maintained parochial schools or education ministries of the Catholic Church. , the Church operates the world's largest non-governmental school system. Catholic schools participate in the evangelizing mission of the Church, integrating religious education as the core subject within their curriculum. School boards that administer Catholic schools in the Greater Toronto Area include...
Private schools, also known as independent schools, non-governmental, or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public (government) funding; at some private schools students may be able to get a...
A high school (also secondary school, senior school, secondary college) is a school that provides children and youth with part or all of their secondary education. It may come after primary school or middle school and be followed by higher education or vocational...
A primary school or elementary school is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the ages of about five to eleven, coming before secondary school and after preschool. It is the first stage of compulsory education in most parts of the world, and is normally available without charge, but may be offered in a fee-paying independent school. The term grade school is...