Talk:List of Toronto District School Board elementary schools

Please stop blanking this page
Wikipedia is a collaborative project. This page requires a lot of work and needs more eyes than just one person writing in their own sandbox. Blanking the page without discussion goes against the principles of a collaborative encyclopedia. Perhaps instead of blanking, you can add to the list? Mattximus (talk) 18:47, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

List of schools
Here's the list of schools as taken from the TDSB website, if this is helpful to anyone trying to flesh this out.


 * Adam Beck Junior Public School
 * Africentric Alternative School
 * Agincourt Junior Public School
 * Agnes Macphail Public School
 * Albion Heights Junior Middle School
 * Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave Junior and Senior Public School
 * Alexander Stirling Public School
 * Alexmuir Junior Public School
 * Allenby Junior Public School
 * ALPHA Alternative Junior School
 * ALPHA II Alternative School
 * Alvin Curling Public School
 * Amesbury Middle School
 * Ancaster Public School
 * Annette Street Junior and Senior Public School
 * Anson Park Public School
 * Anson S Taylor Junior Public School
 * Arbor Glen Public School
 * Armour Heights Public School
 * Avondale Elementary Alternative School
 * Avondale Public School
 * Bala Avenue Community School
 * Balmy Beach Community School
 * Banting and Best Public School
 * Baycrest Public School
 * Bayview Middle School
 * Beaches Alternative Junior School
 * Beaumonde Heights Junior Middle School
 * Bedford Park Public School
 * Bellmere Junior Public School
 * Ben Heppner Vocal Music Academy
 * Bendale Junior Public School
 * Bennington Heights Elementary School
 * Berner Trail Junior Public School
 * Bessborough Drive Elementary and Middle School
 * Beverley Heights Middle School
 * Beverley School
 * Beverly Glen Junior Public School
 * Birch Cliff Heights Public School
 * Birch Cliff Public School
 * Blacksmith Public School
 * Blake Street Junior Public School
 * Blantyre Public School
 * Blaydon Public School
 * Bliss Carman Senior Public School
 * Bloordale Middle School
 * Bloorlea Middle School
 * Blythwood Junior Public School
 * Bowmore Road Junior and Senior Public School
 * Boys Leadership Academy
 * Braeburn Junior School
 * Brian Public School
 * Briarcrest Junior School
 * Bridlewood Junior Public School
 * Brimwood Boulevard Junior Public School
 * Broadacres Junior School
 * Broadlands Public School
 * Brock Public School
 * Brookhaven Public School
 * Brookmill Boulevard Junior Public School
 * Brookside Public School
 * Brookview Middle School
 * Brown Junior Public School
 * Bruce Public School
 * Buchanan Public School
 * Burrows Hall Junior Public School
 * C D Farquharson Junior Public School
 * C R Marchant Middle School
 * Calico Public School
 * Cameron Public School
 * Carleton Village Junior and Senior Sports and Wellness Academy
 * Cassandra Public School
 * Castlebar Junior School
 * Cedar Drive Junior Public School
 * Cedarbrook Public School
 * Cedarvale Community School
 * Centennial Road Junior Public School
 * Chalkfarm Public School
 * Charles E Webster Public School
 * Charles G Fraser Junior Public School
 * Charles Gordon Senior Public School
 * Charles H Best Junior Middle School
 * Charlottetown Junior Public School
 * Chartland Junior Public School
 * Cherokee Public School
 * Chester Elementary School
 * Chester Le Junior Public School
 * Chief Dan George Public School
 * Chine Drive Public School
 * Church Street Junior Public School
 * Churchill Heights Public School
 * Churchill Public School
 * City View Alternative Senior School
 * Claireville Junior School
 * Clairlea Public School
 * Claude Watson School for the Arts
 * Cliffside Public School
 * Cliffwood Public School
 * Clinton Street Junior Public School
 * Cordella Junior Public School
 * Cornell Junior Public School
 * Corvette Junior Public School
 * Cosburn Middle School
 * Cottingham Junior Public School
 * Courcelette Public School
 * Crescent Town Elementary School
 * Cresthaven Public School
 * Crestview Public School
 * Cummer Valley Middle School
 * D A Morrison Middle School
 * da Vinci School
 * Dallington Public School
 * Danforth Gardens Public School
 * David Hornell Junior School
 * David Lewis Public School
 * Davisville Junior Public School
 * Daystrom Public School
 * Deer Park Junior and Senior Public School
 * Delta Alternative Senior School
 * Denlow Public School
 * Dennis Avenue Community School
 * Derrydown Public School
 * Dewson Street Junior Public School
 * Diefenbaker Elementary School
 * Dixon Grove Junior Middle School
 * Don Mills Middle School
 * Don Valley Middle School
 * Donview Middle Health and Wellness Academy
 * Donwood Park Public School
 * Dorset Park Public School
 * Dovercourt Public School
 * Downsview Public School
 * Downtown Alternative School
 * Downtown Vocal Music Academy of Toronto
 * Dr Marion Hilliard Senior Public School
 * Driftwood Public School
 * Dublin Heights Elementary and Middle School
 * Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior Public School
 * Dundas Junior Public School
 * Dunlace Public School
 * Earl Beatty Junior and Senior Public School
 * Earl Grey Senior Public School
 * Earl Haig Public School
 * East Alternative School of Toronto
 * Eastview Public School
 * Eatonville Junior School
 * Edgewood Public School
 * Eglinton Junior Public School
 * Elia Middle School
 * Elizabeth Simcoe Junior Public School
 * Elkhorn Public School
 * Ellesmere-Statton Public School
 * Elmbank Junior Middle Academy
 * Elmlea Junior School
 * Emily Carr Public School
 * Equinox Holistic Alternative School
 * Ernest Public School
 * Essex Junior and Senior Public School
 * F H Miller Junior Public School
 * Fairbank Memorial Community School
 * Fairbank Public School
 * Fairglen Junior Public School
 * Fairmount Public School
 * Faywood Arts-Based Curriculum School
 * Fenside Public School
 * Fern Avenue Junior and Senior Public School
 * Finch Public School
 * Firgrove Public School
 * Fisherville Senior Public School
 * Fleming Public School
 * Flemington Public School
 * Forest Hill Junior and Senior Public School
 * Forest Manor Public School
 * Frankland Community School
 * Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy
 * Galloway Road Public School
 * Garden Avenue Junior Public School
 * Gateway Public School
 * General Brock Public School
 * General Crerar Public School
 * General Mercer Junior Public School
 * George Anderson Public School
 * George B Little Public School
 * George P Mackie Junior Public School
 * George Peck Public School
 * George R Gauld Junior School
 * George Syme Community School
 * George Webster Elementary School
 * Givins/Shaw Junior Public School
 * Glamorgan Junior Public School
 * Gledhill Junior Public School
 * Glen Ames Senior Public School
 * Glen Park Public School
 * Glen Ravine Junior Public School
 * Glenview Senior Public School
 * Golf Road Junior Public School
 * Gordon A Brown Middle School
 * Gosford Public School
 * Gracedale Public School
 * Gracefield Public School
 * Greenholme Junior Middle School
 * Greenland Public School
 * Grenoble Public School
 * Grey Owl Junior Public School
 * Guildwood Junior Public School
 * Gulfstream Public School
 * H A Halbert Junior Public School
 * H J Alexander Community School
 * Harrison Public School
 * Harwood Public School
 * Hawthorne II Bilingual Alternative Junior School
 * Heather Heights Junior Public School
 * Henry Hudson Senior Public School
 * Henry Kelsey Senior Public School
 * Heritage Park Public School
 * High Park Alternative Junior School
 * Highcastle Public School
 * Highfield Junior School
 * Highland Creek Public School
 * Highland Heights Junior Public School
 * Highland Middle School
 * Highview Public School
 * Hillcrest Community School
 * Hillmount Public School
 * Hilltop Middle School
 * Hodgson Middle School
 * Hollycrest Middle School
 * Hollywood Public School
 * Horizon Alternative Senior School
 * Howard Junior Public School
 * Humber Summit Middle School
 * Humber Valley Village Junior Middle School
 * Humbercrest Public School
 * Humberwood Downs Junior Middle Academy
 * Humewood Community School
 * Hunter's Glen Junior Public School
 * Huron Street Junior Public School
 * Indian Road Crescent Junior Public School
 * Inglewood Heights Junior Public School
 * Ionview Public School
 * Iroquois Junior Public School
 * Island Public/Natural Science School
 * Islington Junior Middle School
 * J B Tyrrell Senior Public School
 * J G Workman Public School
 * J R Wilcox Community School
 * Jack Miner Senior Public School
 * Jackman Avenue Junior Public School
 * James S Bell Junior Middle Sports and Wellness Academy
 * Jean Augustine Girls' Leadership Academy
 * Jean Lumb Public School
 * Jesse Ketchum Junior and Senior Public School
 * John A Leslie Public School
 * John Buchan Senior Public School
 * John D Parker Junior School
 * John English Junior Middle School
 * John Fisher Junior Public School
 * John G Althouse Middle School
 * John G Diefenbaker Public School
 * John McCrae Public School
 * John Ross Robertson Junior Public School
 * John Wanless Junior Public School
 * Joseph Brant Public School
 * Joseph Howe Senior Public School
 * Joyce Public School
 * Kapapamahchakwew - Wandering Spirit School
 * Karen Kain School of the Arts
 * Keele Street Public School
 * Keelesdale Junior Public School
 * Kennedy Public School
 * Kensington Community School
 * Kew Beach Junior Public School
 * Kimberley Junior Public School
 * King Edward Junior and Senior Public School
 * King George Junior Public School
 * Kingslake Public School
 * Kingsview Village Junior School
 * Knob Hill Public School
 * Lamberton Public School
 * Lambton Park Community School
 * Lambton-Kingsway Junior Middle School
 * Lanor Junior Middle School
 * Lawrence Heights Middle School
 * Ledbury Park Elementary and Middle School
 * Lescon Public School
 * Leslieville Junior Public School
 * Lester B Pearson Elementary School
 * Lillian Public School
 * Lord Dufferin Junior and Senior Public School
 * Lord Lansdowne Junior Public School
 * Lord Roberts Junior Public School
 * Lucy Maud Montgomery Public School
 * Lucy McCormick Senior School
 * Lynngate Junior Public School
 * Lynnwood Heights Junior Public School
 * Macklin Public School
 * Malvern Junior Public School
 * Manhattan Park Junior Public School
 * Maple Leaf Public School
 * Market Lane Junior and Senior Public School
 * Mary Shadd Public School
 * Maryvale Public School
 * Mason Road Junior Public School
 * Maurice Cody Junior Public School
 * McKee Public School
 * McMurrich Junior Public School
 * Meadowvale Public School
 * Melody Village Junior School
 * Military Trail Public School
 * Mill Valley Junior School
 * Milliken Public School
 * Millwood Junior School
 * Milne Valley Middle School
 * Montrose Junior Public School
 * Morrish Public School
 * Morse Street Junior Public School
 * Mountview Alternative Junior School
 * Muirhead Public School
 * Nelson Mandela Park Public School
 * Niagara Street Junior Public School
 * Norman Cook Junior Public School
 * Norman Ingram Public School
 * Norseman Junior Middle School
 * North Agincourt Junior Public School
 * North Bendale Junior Public School
 * North Bridlewood Junior Public School
 * North Kipling Junior Middle School
 * North Preparatory Junior Public School
 * Northlea Elementary and Middle School
 * Norway Junior Public School
 * O'Connor Public School
 * Oakdale Park Middle School
 * Oakridge Junior Public School
 * Ogden Junior Public School
 * Orde Street Public School
 * Oriole Park Junior Public School
 * Ossington/Old Orchard Junior Public School
 * Owen Public School
 * Palmerston Avenue Junior Public School
 * Pape Avenue Junior Public School
 * Park Lane Public School
 * Park Lawn Junior Middle School
 * Parkdale Junior and Senior Public School
 * Parkfield Junior School
 * Parkside Elementary School
 * Pauline Johnson Junior Public School
 * Pauline Junior Public School
 * Pelmo Park Public School
 * Percy Williams Junior Public School
 * Perth Avenue Junior Public School
 * Pierre Laporte Middle School
 * Pineway Public School
 * Pleasant Public School
 * Pleasant View Middle School
 * Poplar Road Junior Public School
 * Port Royal Public School
 * Portage Trail Community School
 * Presteign Heights Elementary School
 * Princess Margaret Junior School
 * Queen Alexandra Middle School
 * Queen Victoria Public School
 * Quest Alternative Senior School
 * R H McGregor Elementary School
 * R J Lang Elementary and Middle School
 * Ranchdale Public School
 * Rawlinson Community School
 * Regal Road Junior Public School
 * Regent Heights Public School
 * Rene Gordon Health and Wellness Academy
 * Rippleton Public School
 * Rivercrest Junior School
 * Robert Service Senior Public School
 * Rockcliffe Middle School
 * Rockford Public School
 * Roden Public School
 * Rolph Road Elementary School
 * Rose Avenue Junior Public School
 * Rosedale Junior Public School
 * Roselands Junior Public School
 * Rosethorn Junior School
 * Rouge Valley Public School
 * Roywood Public School
 * Runnymede Junior and Senior Public School
 * Ryerson Community School
 * Samuel Hearne Middle School
 * Scarborough Village Public School
 * Second Street Junior Middle School
 * Secord Elementary School
 * Selwyn Elementary School
 * Seneca Hill Public School
 * Seneca School
 * Seventh Street Junior School
 * Shaughnessy Public School
 * Sheppard Public School
 * Shirley Street Junior Public School
 * Shoreham Public Sports and Wellness Academy
 * Silver Springs Public School
 * Silverthorn Community School
 * Sir Adam Beck Junior School
 * Sir Alexander Mackenzie Senior Public School
 * Sir Ernest MacMillan Senior Public School
 * Sir Samuel B Steele Junior Public School
 * Sloane Public School
 * Smithfield Middle School
 * Spectrum Alternative Senior School
 * Sprucecourt Public School
 * St Andrew's Middle School
 * St Andrews Public School
 * St George's Junior School
 * St Margaret's Public School
 * Stanley Public School
 * Steelesview Public School
 * Stilecroft Public School
 * Summit Heights Public School
 * Sunny View Junior and Senior Public School
 * Sunnylea Junior School
 * Swansea Junior and Senior Public School
 * Tam O'Shanter Junior Public School
 * Taylor Creek Public School
 * Tecumseh Senior Public School
 * Terraview-Willowfield Public School
 * Terry Fox Public School
 * The Elms Junior Middle School
 * The Grove Community School
 * The Waterfront School
 * Thomas L Wells Public School
 * Thorncliffe Park Public School
 * Three Valleys Public School
 * Timberbank Junior Public School
 * Tom Longboat Junior Public School
 * Topcliff Public School
 * Tredway Woodsworth Public School
 * Tumpane Public School
 * Twentieth Street Junior School
 * Valley Park Middle School
 * Valleyfield Junior School
 * Victoria Park Elementary School
 * Victoria Village Public School
 * Vradenburg Junior Public School
 * Walter Perry Junior Public School
 * Warren Park Junior Public School
 * Wedgewood Junior School
 * Wellesworth Junior School
 * West Glen Junior School
 * West Hill Public School
 * West Humber Junior Middle School
 * West Preparatory Junior Public School
 * West Rouge Junior Public School
 * Westmount Junior School
 * Weston Memorial Junior Public School
 * Westway Junior School
 * Westwood Middle School
 * Wexford Public School
 * White Haven Public School
 * Whitney Junior Public School
 * Wilkinson Junior Public School
 * William Burgess Elementary School
 * William G Davis Junior Public School
 * William G Miller Public School
 * William J McCordic School
 * Williamson Road Junior Public School
 * Willow Park Junior Public School
 * Willowdale Middle School
 * Wilmington Elementary School
 * Winchester Junior and Senior Public School
 * Windfields Middle School
 * Winona Drive Senior Public School
 * Withrow Avenue Junior Public School
 * Woburn Junior Public School
 * Woodbine Middle School
 * Yorkview Public School
 * Yorkwoods Public School
 * Zion Heights Middle School
 * Étienne Brûlé Junior School

– bradv  🍁  20:36, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I think this should just be the content of the article for the indefinite future. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:41, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That's an idea. Just use this, and if later someone wants to add addresses or other relevant info it can be turned into a table then. At least this one is complete. – bradv  🍁  20:59, 17 July 2019 (UTC)


 * I agree the list-table should be made to be comprehensive. Without seeing the list here, I tried adding all the Scarborough ones.  Probably better to work from the school boards' listing, alphabetical (as here in "Find-your-school"), which includes addresses and grades covered.  So maybe delete the Scarborough ones, and copy-paste in the rest from pages of the Find-your-school webpage. --[[User:Doncram|Doncram] (talk) 21:11, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * This is the list from the "Find your school" page, and here's the javascript I used to pull it: undefined – bradv  🍁  21:18, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks for that, that code seems valuable though I would not be running anything like that. (Or, where/how could I run it, would i need to install software and run it from my PC somehow?)  Perhaps that could be modified to create rows with a bit more.  Depending on discussion about columns/content to be included in the table (next section), perhaps capturing the street address and the neighborhood and the grade level range should also be done.  We're not in a rush here, maybe we should compose a few alternative mini-tables showing one or two rows, to help decide what should be included.  I also would like to defer a lot to the list-article creator in this. --Doncram (talk) 21:30, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

columns for table
Assuming that Articles for deletion/List of Toronto District School Board elementary schools is closed "Keep", then what info should be presented in the table? Offhand I don't think Math scores or other temporary stuff should be included. It should have columns for location (and should include address and coordinates) and for year established and grade level range and approximate size/enrollment. That last could be supported by a footnote for each row, depending on where the info is from. Add a description/notes column to speak to anything special, like a school being a registered historic site or having a famous architect or whatever. --Doncram (talk) 21:06, 17 July 2019 (UTC)


 * I notice there is List of public elementary schools in New York City, which has useful column "Named for", which is clearly good to have because it is fairly well populated. Are there other good examples to crib from? --Doncram (talk) 21:26, 17 July 2019 (UTC)


 * List of secondary schools in the Toronto District School Board, developed a lot by User:Mattximus who started this one too, has useful column for photos. I would name the column "Image" and put it further to the left, with Description/Notes to be kept to the right.


 * Following in part the standard format used in historic sites lists that I happen to work on, e.g. National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Alabama (the first county list-article alphabetically in U.S. NRHP list-article system), I would include:
 * an unlabelled numbering column first (so we and the reader can verify the list has 451 members)
 * name (usually unlinked, but "bluelink" if it has an article)
 * image
 * date founded (a year) (or maybe this should be covered, selectively, only in "Notes")
 * size/enrollment
 * grade levels covered
 * location (street address and coordinates), which is not useful for sorting upon
 * neighbourhood (sortable)
 * macro-level neighborhoods per List of neighborhoods in Toronto (is this comprehensive?):
 * Downtown Core (Central), or
 * East End, or
 * North End, or
 * West End, or
 * East York, or
 * Etobicoke, or
 * North York, or
 * Scarborough, or
 * York
 * or more detailed, as in List of city-designated neighbourhoods in Toronto
 * named for" (although maybe this info, which is not applicable for every row, could be included in "Notes" column)
 * "Notes" or "Description" (to handle anything special
 * "Notes" might also cover any available external link to a website about the given school, if it is a good website
 * Maybe a few draft mini-tables should be created with a few rows each, to help decide what looks like will work for Toronto. --Doncram (talk) 21:48, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Given that there are 400 of these schools I think this table as proposed will be impossible. I would stick with just 4 columns: the name, neighbourood (just the official 6 easily found on the official website: Toronto, East York, York, North York, Scarborough, and Etobicoke), grades and size. Once this is complete then we can talk about adding another column for addresses or pictures. Mattximus (talk) 22:33, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That would be fine. But if you like the format of draft table below, then there can be columns for images and addresses and notes from the getgo.  It might be a tad easier to create the table including the name, the address info, and grades, from the Look-it-up website, than it would be to add address stuff later.  And yes the first version would be mostly blank, would lack coordinates and would have empty image and notes columns.  However the blanks enlist other editors to fill them....who knows maybe one of us would be happy to scour Commons for photos, say. :) --Doncram (talk) 23:15, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

a draft table
Trying with just a few entries. "Notes" column to include date founded, "named for" if applicable.

Note that Agincourt Junior Public School had an article (see this last best version, but was redirected based on AFD in 2015. It was first redirected to Toronto District School Board (which does not mention it) and then to Agincourt, Toronto where it is mentioned, but there is no room / it would not be appropriate to add any additional facts about the school.  Neither good.  Better to redirect (like how Adam Beck Junior Public School is now a redirect) to a table row that can hold some info.  Which might spawn off a separate article again sometime, if it gets too big.  I am able to restore photo, sourced content from the former article. --Doncram (talk) 23:09, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Africentric Alternative School is a redlink, so I list it unlinked, here. I can't find a photo for it at commons.

The TDSB manages 451 elementary schools.

See school locations in linked map, to the right here.

Version that can be created easily just from Look-it-up webpage:

Discussion of a draft table
Any comments? And what is "JK" in "JK-08", by the way? --Doncram (talk) 23:19, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , this looks like an insane amount of work. Let's just do the list for now, and any bluelinks can be added as appropriate. JK is junior kindergarten (followed by SK, then Grade 1, etc.) – bradv  🍁  23:28, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed, that's a bit insane. I think the simple list with just those four columns (name, district (what you call neighbourhood), grades, and population) should be the best start. Images are nice, but I doubt we will have more than just a handful on commons. If we do then I would conceed to have the image column as well. Mattximus (talk) 23:39, 17 July 2019 (UTC)


 * (EC) Bradv, do you mean, or would it be okay, for the first version to be with blanks like "Version that can be created easily just from Look-it-up webpage" above? I would be totally fine with that being created. Could you do that, or anything close to that? (Even if you just made a simple list, not a table, with name, street address, neighborhood, grades. "Table-izing" could be done easily enough by copy-pasting in the row divider characters necessary, I would be happy to do that part if you could make the list with those four pieces of info.) That would be a good start. (Mattximus, this seems to be in agreement with you?) Of course it will take a long time for photos to be added, of course a complete table with blanks is what is needed first, IMO. --Doncram (talk) 23:44, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * About collecting photos, there needs to be a blank column to place them (otherwise how, where, could they be collected?) I happen to edit mostly on the system of list-articles about U.S. NRHP-listed places, which is a giant photo-collection system.  Per its tracking page as of today, it has collected 77,884 photos (mostly new ones from interested editors, and some historical ones), so 83.3% of its rows within its list-articles have a photo.  "If we build it, they will come." :) --Doncram (talk) 23:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * If we can procedurally generate the above table (minus the address given WP:NOTWHITE) fantastic. Pictures slowly being filled in over time doesn't strike me as any sort of problem. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:58, 17 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Collecting coordinates would take a moderate amount of time too. They can be looked up one by one using Google maps, using street address given and visually confirming there is a school there. Street addresses are needed for that, and are not ephemeral like opening hours of museums or other stuff that wp:NOTPAPER/wp:NOTDIRECTORY is about (it states "Contact information such as phone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses is not encyclopedic.") Street addresses and coordinates are both included in many/most lists of buildings AFAIK but street addresses are omitted in some, e.g. List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Ontario. But only after coordinates were collected (by use of street addresses that used to be there, presumably, or at least are available in the linked individual National Historic Site articles, which do retain street addresses. It could be a future decision whether to drop street addresses later, for schools that have individual articles holding the addresses, or for all.
 * About table produced below with three data items, thanks, User:Bradv! Could the same be done but adding the street address, please?
 * Despite my suggestion of one format and set of columns/content, I would be very happy to see/consider/accept a different version, if anyone would care to compose one. Ordering of columns, which elements are included, color scheme, almost anything is open. Maybe I am over-the-top in liking to collect location info and photos? But those seem useful, fundamental to me in lists about buildings or places. Anyhow, I am aware that all list-articles that I create tend to look the same. :(
 * Using "District" rather than "Neighbourhood" for name of one column here would be fine by me, it doesn't matter. How is "Toronto" a neighborhood/district of Toronto, anyhow? --Doncram (talk) 00:29, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , the "neighbourhoods" are the former municipalities of the amalgamated city, and are still used by Canada Post. "District" could be fine too, but TDSB probably doesn't allocate them that way so the term would be ambiguous. I'm with on not including street addresses to make it less of a directory. –  bradv  🍁  01:10, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Table
– bradv  🍁  00:13, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I have BOLDly put it into the article. If Doncram or someone else wants to add another column or two for photos and notes I say great. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 00:19, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Notes for notes column
Hey, I added a Notes column to the mainspace list, in order to begin to collect useful info, but that was deleted. Or maybe my edit didn't save, i am not sure. Just to record for later:
 * For Agnes Macphail Public School, it is named for Agnes Macphail, first woman elected to House of Commons of Canada (no source needed, methinks)
 * For Alexander Muir schools, from the Alexander Muir article, support for two "named for" mentions (although the reference links are dead, the references are still valid):
 * Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave Junior and Senior Public School, 108 Gladstone Ave., Toronto
 * Alexmuir Junior Public School, 95 Alexmuir Blvd., Scarborough


 * Hmm that is a list with addresses, helpful for readers to know where you are talking about....

I also added coordinates info for a few, which was deleted. :(

I guess i will wait to see what shakes out about acceptable content in discussion above. However, basically if there is a photos column I will tend to contribute photos, and the list-article will tend to look better and better. And if there is location column with street addresses, allowing coordinates, I will add coordinates. And the linked map will become awesome and useful and something that makes the Wikipedia list-article better/different than the school board's lookup page. And if not, I won't. --Doncram (talk) 00:45, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , do you need help adding a column for photos and notes? This is pretty easy to do in Visual Editor yourself or I would be happy to help you. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:17, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * As for location info and date of founding/construction, I am not sure whether there is consensus yet on this page for allowing photos and notes. The idea of having more than four columns was called "insane" twice on this page. :(  I don't want to add stuff only to have it deleted.  Could these decisions be made, perhaps by polling on each separately, in the  section above? --Doncram (talk) 18:12, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , I think what was called insane was filling in all the test scores. Having two essentially optional columns seems far less insane :). Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:27, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Photos for photos column

 * Do you live in the city? I wonder how we would get images otherwise? Mattximus (talk) 14:31, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Well to start I would add photos for 30 to 40 of the schools listed on this page now, from those available online already at Wikimedia Commons ( commons.wikimedia.org ). Including in:
 * Commons category:Toronto District School Board
 * Category:Elementary schools in Toronto
 * and at main category Category:Schools in Toronto
 * and in various other subcategories. So that would be photos for about 10 percent of the schools i would post immediately.  Other editors would find more in Commons than I see immediately.
 * Then, sure, I might stop by schools to get new pictures. I don't like to disclose where I live, but I have taken pics in Ontario before (including, that reminds me, for a Roy Brown house which i think i never uploaded), and there are various sites in Ontario I would like to get to, and I might or might not take a bunch of school pics in Toronto.
 * But also over the course of the next year or so, many Wikipedia readers would notice the list-article and would contribute pics of the ones in their neighbourhoods, pics they have already or new snapshots they will get. Also various editors would show up, or could be invited, who upload historic photos from various sources, or who transfer photos over from Flickr or other websites where the photos were contributed with a compatible license.  That's how it works for other list-articles of places.  It's hard to predict, but I would guess getting about 50% coverage within a year would be likely.
 * Above, you noted reluctance to allow having a photo column. If there isn't one, there would continue to be random new contributions of photos to Commons at a slow rate, but I think this accelerated process basically wouldn't happen. --Doncram (talk) 15:47, 18 July 2019 (UTC)


 * By the way I notice that the photo in the new article for Corvette Junior Public School is not one of those in the Commons categories I would have searched immediately. It is included in Commons category "Elementary schools in Ontario and in Category:Education in Scarborough, Ontario.  And the photo is used in List of schools in the former Scarborough Board of Education, which I was not aware of, and which has some more pics.  In similar ways, more pics would be found.
 * Also, by the way, the former Scarborough list has street addresses, and a notes column, and a column about founding dates of schools, and the sky didn't crash down. :) --Doncram (talk) 16:07, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

new Corvette Junior Public School article
I am surprised to notice new article for Corvette Junior Public School. That looks not notable to me; I think the term should be redirected to its row in this list-article's table. And its photo should be put into a photo column, and some of the info now in the article should be mentioned in a notes column. If we decide here to allow photos and notes to be included. I myself have never opened a deletion process about a school article, I think, but numerous other editors seem to specialize in that, and this article will indeed get noticed and nominated for deletion by SPEEDY DELETE or PROD or AFD process. If it goes to AFD, then based on what has happened for hundreds or thousands of AFDs on elementary schools so far, the decision for this one will be automatic ...it will be to redirect, with or without preservation of any of that info. --Doncram (talk) 15:47, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Most Junior schools are not notable (see WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES as evidence) and I see no reason to think this one is an exception. I have redirected it to this page. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:16, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I wonder if this is up for debate WP:NOTPAPER suggests there is no harm in having it. Mattximus (talk) 17:21, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , I had not noticed who made the article when I redirected it, just saw Dom's notice here. To answer your question on the revert, yes we probably should redirect all the current schools which have articles to here. I had not planned to do so as they're older but feel we shouldn't be adding more. NOTPAPER doesn't mean we don't care about notability and elementary schools just aren't notable. Are you willing to undo your revert? If not I'm OK filing an AfD (but would prefer given how these discussions go as noted in SCHOOLOUTCOMES that we avoid doing so as not to spend community time on the topic). Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:24, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * See also WP:WPSCHOOLS/AG, which is the Wikiproject Schools essay on what types of schools do/don't merit their own article. DMacks (talk) 17:45, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Mattximus, I like what you've done for school coverage in Wikipedia, and I think your instinct about NOTPAPER and allowing articles is decent and good and would be reasonable in a normal world. But it happens that Wikipedia has been long dragged down by new articles about schools and discussions about deleting them, in literally many thousands of AFDs. There was a grand compromise for many years, that high school articles would be allowed automatically, and that lower-level school articles would not be allowed, and that worked well in many ways (including towards overcoming bias against articles outside U.S., U.K., Canada, and in not being mean to so many new editors who like to start by writing about their schools). In 2017, whether high schools would get an automatic pass was debated in a big way again (discussion linked in wp:SCHOOLOUTCOMES), and the outcome seems to have increased the threshold for high school articles, but consensus about primary schools was unchanged (that basically they are not to be accepted, unless there exists extra coverage like would exist for a school listed on a historic register so wp:GNG can be proven to be met). I personally happen to think Wikipedia is stupid for shooting itself in the foot, by turning off new editors, and I would allow any high school to be covered, like we do allow for coverage of all populated places (Wikipedia is a "gazetteer" about those) but my view is not the consensus.
 * Here, process-wise, it is fine for you to object to deletion/redirection of the new article. And it should be taken to AFD for objective-type discussion by uninvolved editors. Barkeep49 and I have our predictions about how that will turn out, but I think it would be educational in a good way, to inform our discussion about what this list-article should cover. If separate articles are allowed, it is not so important to allow pics and notes and location info here.  We are not on the same page yet about those decisions.
 * About the other elementary school articles, unfortunately I think those should be AFD'd, one by one, also, sooner rather than later, because they all will be AFDd eventually. Maybe some of them can be saved by existence of substantial coverage in reliable sources, but it would be useful to establish what (probably small) percentage of separate articles will be allowed. --Doncram (talk) 17:57, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Very well, you can revert. I think I'm done with education articles on wikipedia, there is just too much hassle and argument and arbitrariness. 20:42, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

trying again (comment or else)
Yay, the AFD was closed "Keep". Hey, the discussion of what columns to include in a table was incomplete. There were at least two comments about insanity, for what I consider pretty basic stuff in a table about places. Several editors did comment that they think it is fine to have a column for photos and/or a column for notes. I don't want to add stuff and have it be deleted. So, trying again, could we discuss, or not discuss, and if the latter I will proceed pretty much as planned previously. Hopefully previous objections no longer apply. Maybe some previous objection was due to wanting to get a complete list, which I think has been done.

1- Number -- this is not really data, it is just providing means for a reader/editor to confirm how many schools are listed. This is routine in many lists of places (including all the U.S. National Register of Historic Places lists).

2- Name -- in the list-article now, this is for name of each school, with wikilink if there exists an article for it or a redirect to some other article where it is covered. What was done in the list-article dropped wikilinks for a few elementary schools that have articles. I propose to restore those links, and to try to wikilink any others having articles. Or does someone object

3- Image -- everyone seems okay for photos to be included where available, knock on wood

4- Location -- there was some objection before, which I don't understand, unless it was belief that this is difficult to provide, and the other stuff should be done first, which has been done. Location is basic, is provided publicly by the school district, seems like something any reader would want to know. Location includes street address and coordinates, so that readers can look up what schools are in a given area by consulting the linked map (by GeoGroup template.

5- Neighbourhood -- in the list-article now. This might be used in future to indicate more specific official neighborhoods in Toronto, but is used now just to indicate the former school district (before amalgamation), and I would just leave it that way for now.

6- Enrollment/size. If there is a source giving number of students as of a given recent year or more specific date, to include with footnote to that source.

7- Grades -- in the list-article now, e.g. K-6. The list-article should cover all the schools having any grades in K-6 range, so some have some higher grades too.

8- Notes -- enables some more discussion where there is notable stuff to discuss, as an alternative to having a separate article created for the school. Can mention historic registry listing, for example. Or if there is too much to discuss, then the article should be created, and this is then a summary. May include an external link to any individual school's website, if there is one.

I would like to proceed again, will pause first for any discussion, objections, suggestions. --Doncram (talk) 00:07, 29 July 2019 (UTC)