The Fraser Institute<\/a> ranked 747 public, Catholic and independent high schools across Ontario based on seven indicators derived from provincial test results. <\/p>\nThis year four schools were awarded a perfect score and all of them were located in the GTA\u2014Thornhill\u2019s St. Robert Catholic High School, Richmond Hill\u2019s St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School, Markham\u2019s St. Augustine Catholic High School and Toronto\u2019s St. Michael\u2019s Choir School.<\/p>\n
Some of the lowest ranked schools in Toronto included North York\u2019s Westview Centennial Secondary School (733rd), George S Henry Academy (724th) and Emery Collegiate Institute (709th). Emery Collegiate Institute, it should be noted, did see its score improve from it\u2019s five-year average while the other two schools saw year-over-year declines. <\/p>\n
The Fraser Institute says the rankings are intended to provide parents with information \u201cthey can\u2019t easily get anywhere else, about how schools perform over time and how they compare to other schools in Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the group says the data proves that \u201cschools can improve student performance regardless of which communities and students they serve.\u201d<\/p>\n
To that end, the Fraser Institute highlighted two GTA schools which it said are among the fastest improving secondary institutions in the province. <\/p>\n
Central Technical School in Toronto recorded a score of 4.2 in this year\u2019s rankings, up from 0.2 in 2018 when it was among the lowest ranked schools in Ontario. <\/p>\n
The Fraser Institute says that school was able to see those improvements despite the fact that 29.7 per cent of its students have special needs and require additional support. <\/p>\n
Abbey Park High School in Oakville, meanwhile, saw its score rise from 8.1 to 9.3, placing it eighth among all Ontario schools. <\/p>\n
The Fraser Institute says it was able to do this with a high percentage of students\u201413.9 per cent\u2014who are English language learners.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter where a school is ranked, or what challenges its students may face. The evidence is clear\u2014all types of schools, located all over the province with different types of students, are all capable of improvement,\u201d Paige MacPherson, a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, said in a press release. <\/p>\n
The Fraser Institute rankings are based on indicators derived from the Ontario-wide tests of literacy and mathematics skills that are administered by the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO). <\/p>\n
The authors of the report say the rankings \u201calerts parents to those nearby schools that appear to have more effective academic programs\u201d while also helping them \u201cdetermine whether schools of interest are improving over time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe act of publicly rating and ranking schools attracts attention and this can provide motivation. Schools that perform well or show consistent improvement are applauded. Poorly performing schools generate concern, as do those whose performance is deteriorating,\u201d the report states. \u201cThis inevitable attention provides an incentive for all those connected with a school to focus on student results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here is a look at the top 10 and bottom 10 ranked schools in Ontario, according to the Fraser Institute.<\/p>\n
Top 10 ranked schools (including ties)<\/p>\n
1 – St. Robert Catholic High School (Thornhill)<\/p>\n
1 – St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School (Richmond Hill)<\/p>\n
1 – St. Michael\u2019s Choir School (Toronto) <\/p>\n
1 – St. Augustine Catholic High School (Markham)<\/p>\n
5- Ursula Franklin Academy (Toronto)<\/p>\n
6- Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School (Markham)<\/p>\n
7 – Olive Grove High School (Mississauga)<\/p>\n
8 -Iroquois Ridge High School (Oakville)<\/p>\n
8 – Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts (Toronto)<\/p>\n
8 – Abbey Park High School (Oakville)<\/p>\n
8 – Ga\u00e9tan-Gervais Secondary School (Oakville)<\/p>\n
Bottom 10 ranked schools<\/p>\n
735 \u2013 Westview Freedom Academy (Windsor)<\/p>\n
734 – Iroquois Falls Public School (Iroquois Falls)<\/p>\n
733 \u2013 Westview Centennial Secondary School (Toronto)<\/p>\n
732 \u2013 Ridgetown District High School (Ridgetown)<\/p>\n
731 \u2013 Hanmer (Hanmer)<\/p>\n
730 – Espanola High School (Espanola)<\/p>\n
729 \u2013 Trenton High School (Trenton)<\/p>\n
728 \u2013 Queen Elizabeth High School (Sioux Lookout)<\/p>\n
727 \u2013 St. Lawrence Secondary School (Cornwall)<\/p>\n
726 \u2013 Bernie Curtis Secondary School (Hamilton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report has ranked hundreds of Ontario\u2019s secondary schools and four institutions in the GTA have topped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-310695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}