St. Nicholas Catholic School, Toronto

UPDATE DEC 2022: Rankings for the City of Toronto (except Etobicoke (public & Catholic) and the West End/High Park area (public only)) have been discontinued. Please also continue to see school rankings for the following:
Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham, Brampton, Milton, Georgetown, and Hamilton

The St. Nicholas school ranking represents an opinion of ours based on hundreds of hours of research with the end-goal of determining where the “best” schools in the Toronto area are FOR young families.

Every other Ontario real estate website uses the “Fraser Institute rankings”, but these rankings can pose many problems for young families. Our rankings are far more integrated with the consistency and the “teacher support” a school receives – both HUGE factors – as well as EQAO Performance.

SusiHomes classifies schools (for their clients) into the following four groups:
Premium Recommendations
Alternate Recommendations
Tertiary Recommendations
Not Recommended

With the SUSI Rankings we help our clients find the best school/home combination possible!

St. Nicholas EQAO Performance & Consistency (2020)

The EQAO performance for St. Nicholas is recorded each year at SusiHomes and turned into the figures like the example you see to the left. These become the EQAO calculations used to determine our final annual rankings. A “consistency number” is then assigned to St. Nicholas based on how dependable the school has been over the last seven years, and then all numbers are mixed with Teacher Support (below) before producing a final ranking. See a more detailed explanation of how we determine our rankings here.

St. Nicholas Teacher Support (2020)

Median Income ($$) – 65K
Single Parents – 26.3%
University Degree – 29.3%
High School or Less – 37.6%
ESL – 13.4%
Recent Immigrants – 5.8%

The Teacher Support receives at St. Nicholas is critical to determining its final ranking. Exactly what we mean by this is laid out here, but in a nutshell, if a school rises above their demographical expectations, they then can be considered a more worthy school, than others, for the attention of young family purchasers.

St. Nicholas Demographics (2020)

Our exclusive School-District-Specific DEMOGRAPHICS are available to ALL HomeBuyers at SusiHomes, and they include Income Levels, Religions, Single Parents, Languages Spoken, and much more. These are demographics ONLY within the school district itself!!
For an example, see an overview of the ethnic and religious diversity for St. Nicholas in the graphic to the left.

The St. Nicholas ranking at SusiHomes is heavily influenced by these demographics we have (the Fraser Rankings are not). See the Potency Rankings on this page for a detailed explanation of this invaluable process.

What is the SCHOOL RANKING for St. Nicholas in 2020?

The St. Nicholas school ranking from SusiHomes is the most reliable ranking in the region, in our opinion, and all rankings are available to our clients. When considering the best schools in Toronto, these rankings heavily influence our recommendations.

HOWEVER, not all well-ranked schools are recommended to our clients, and there are certainly MISTAKES that young families make when searching for homes in good school districts that should be avoided.

We help our clients eliminate these mistakes with our school classifications: Premium Recommendations, Alternate Recommendations, Tertiary Recommendations, and Not Recommended – St. Nicholas falls into one of these categories. As a preview, you can see the Top 5 Catholic elementary schools in the Toronto area here.

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