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Technical and Commercial Boundaries

May 2024

  • presented at Planning and Priorities Committee meeting on May 15, 2024.
  • The legacy technical and commercial boundaries will be eliminated for the purposes of admission to these schools beginning with the admission process for September 2025.

On May 22, 2024, the Board of Trustees approved the elimination of the legacy technical and commercial boundaries for the following schools:

  • Central Technical School
  • Central Toronto Academy
  • Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute
  • Northern Secondary School
  • Victoria Park Collegiate Institute
  • Western Technical-Commercial School

The legacy technical and commercial boundaries are large regional boundaries that only apply to these six schools in the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø. These boundaries were created decades ago when students were streamed into separate schools to take technical or commercial programs. Nowadays, students are no longer streamed into separate schools to access these programs and the former technical and commercial schools have all been reinvented to offer a broad range of programs that include academic programming. The Ministry of Education has also made technological education compulsory in all secondary schools, effective September 2024. Consequently, these boundaries no longer serve the purpose for which they were created.

The legacy boundaries wi