Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School
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Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School is a girls only high school in Toronto, Ontario, established in 1847 by Catholic Bishop of Toronto Most Rev. Michael Power and Loretto sisters from Ireland. Since 1986, Loretto Abbey High School has been administered by the Toronto Catholic District School Board (formerly the Metropolitan Separate School Board).
Originally located on Duke Street, it moved to a Bathurst Street site and to Bond Street in 1860. In 1867 the school relocated to the former home of Attorney General Robert James on Wellington Street. In 1927, the school moved to the current home in North York, a Gothic Tudor style building on Mason Boulevard.
At one time, the Mason Boulevard building housed a private primary school in addition to the secondary school. The primary school, which was run by Loretto sisters resident in the attached convent, closed in 1985.
Loretto Abbey remains a very academic school which educates young ladies to university entrance. The school boasts a French-immersion programme and offers many Enriched / Advanced Placement courses. Loretto Abbey is known to be one of the top high schools in toronto
Notable Alumni
Jess Walton - "Jill Foster Abbott" on "The Young and the Restless"
[edit] See also
- St. Michael's College School
- De La Salle College "Oaklands"
- Upper Canada College
- Havergal College
- Bishop Strachan School
- Branksome Hall
- The Crescent School
- St. Michael's Choir School
- Toronto French School
- University of Toronto Schools
- St. Joseph's College School
- Brebeuf College School
- St. Augustine Seminary
- Jarvis Collegiate Institute
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