Map of the Week: Home schooling in Toronto

Link to the map.

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This week, we look at home-schooled pupils in Toronto. The Toronto District School Board knows of almost exactly 500. The data was obtained from them through an access-to-information request. The map shows home-schooled pupils as a percentage of the population aged 5-18, by postal area.

The map shows a strong concentration of home-schoolers in the downtown core, with a pocket along the Danforth west of Coxwell.

Here are the top five postal areas:

M4Y	Church/Wellesley
M5E	St. Lawrence
M5V	West downtown, Niagara
M4J	East Riverdale/mid-East York
M5G	Yonge/College/University/Queen

Map(s) of the Week: University admission: U of T

BERNARD WEIL/TORONTO STAR

Map: St. George campus admissions

Map: Scarborough campus admissions

Map: Mississauga campus admissions

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This week, we wind up the series on neighbourhood patterns in university admission by looking at the University of Toronto.

First, the St. George campus. I'm not sure what I was expecting from this map, but it wasn't this very strong cluster covering the area from Willowdale west to the 404. Rates are also high on the east Danforth and in Don Mills, in the area of the campus itself, and in two west-end postal codes along Bloor St. There is a rough tendency for darker areas to cluster along subway lines.

The Scarborough campus shows a clearer regional pattern, in this case in the area of the actual campus, which draws first from the east-central areas of Scarborough, then from western Scarborough and Markham.

The Mississauga campus draws sharply from its immediate area in west-central Mississauga.

Records were obtained under access-to-information laws.

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Map of the Week will return in the first week of August.

Map(s) of the Week: University admission: York

CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR

Map: University admissions, York's Keele campus

Map: University admissions, Glendon College

Our series on neighbourhood patterns in university admission continues this week with York.

First, the Keele campus. The first thing I notice here is the overwhelming proportion of students from Vaughan, with secondary pockets in Markham and northwest Toronto. Rates are very low in the Yonge St. corridor and the inverted T shape of the former city of Toronto generally.

Glendon College's map shows neighbourhood patterns very different from York's much larger main campus on Keele. M4P in North Toronto heads the list, followed by M4G (Leaside) and M2H (Hillcrest Village).

Records were obtained under access-to-information laws.

Map of the Week: University admission: Ryerson

TORY ZIMMERMAN/TORONTO STAR

Map: University admissions: Ryerson

This map begins a three-week series on admission to (update: three of the city's four universities)*, looking at registrations from last September. We will go on to look at York and U of T by campuses.

The first thing I notice is that rates are consistently higher in Vaughan and Markham than in the city itself. In the 416 area code, Ryerson attendance rates are low in the city's northwest generally, and also in the neighbourhoods along Yonge St. stretching north from Bloor to the 401.

* A reader points out that OCAD is a university, something I wasn't aware of.

Map of the Week: High school dropouts

LUCAS OLENIUK/TORONTO STAR

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This week’s map looks at high school dropout rates among students enrolled in Toronto’s public system.

Three areas of the city have dropout rates over 10% among 17-year-olds enrolled in public high schools:

Mid-south Scarborough;

Downtown and the lakeshore neighbourhoods to the east;

and a large area of the city's northwest centred more or less on the 400/401 intersection.

Click on an area for full details. Information was obtained from the TDSB under access-to-information legislation.