University of Toronto Schools

The University of Toronto Schools is an independent secondary school in Toronto.

History

UTS was jointly founded by the province of Ontario and the University of Toronto in 1910 as a laboratory school of the Faculty of Education. As originally conceived, UTS was to be a collection of several schools, at least one of which was to be for females. Due to a shortage of funds, only one school—a boys' school—was initially built.

In 1973, realizing that the rest of the school's original vision would never materialize, a decision was made to admit girls into the school. This represented a key turning point in the school's history. Then, in April of 1993, the NDP Government of Ontario announced the withdrawal of public funding from the school, prompting the mobilization of all its constituencies to make up the loss.

UTS boasts an impressive record of student achievement, both in academics and in extracurricular activities. With a university admission rate above 99%, UTS students are regularly admitted to top Canadian universities such as the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, Queen's University, the University of Waterloo, and McGill University, not to mention top American universities such as Harvard, Stanford and Yale. UTS is the two-time winner of the Reach for the Top National Trivia Championship, winner of the Ontario Student Classics Conference for 9 years running, and has produced international-caliber debaters and young scientists. In addition, UTS students organise the Southern Ontario Model United Nations Assembly, a United Nations simulation for high school students. UTS counts among its alumni 2 Nobel Prize winners (John C. Polanyi in 1986 for Chemistry, A. Michael Spence in 2001 for Economics), 19 Rhodes Scholars, and such notables as journalist and author David Frum, politician John Tory, french horn player Jamie Summerville, journalist Jeffrey Simpson, impressario Dora Mavor Moore, publisher David Galloway and many other Canadian notables.

UTS remained a part of the Faculty of Education and its successor the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) until the beginning of 2004, when a controversial agreement signed with the University established the school as an independent ancillary body within the University commonwealth.

University of Toronto Schools

University of Toronto Schools

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