St. Leo Catholic Elementary School, Mimico

at , Toronto , M8V Canada

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St. Leo Catholic Elementary School is an elementary school in Toronto, Canada. It is operated by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Recently the name of the school, originally St. Leo's Separate School, has been written as St. Leo Catholic School.HistoryEstablished in 1926 on Pidgeon Avenue, in the parish of St. Leo's , the school is the oldest existing Catholic School in Etobicoke; the older Highfield Catholic School on Etobicoke's border with Brampton having closed many years before St. Leo opened. For lack of funds, the original school building was a copy of the older St. Patrick's Catholic Elementary School in what is now Brampton; technically St. Patrick's was the 'mother' parish of St. Leo's although early Catholics in Mimico preferred to attend church and school in Toronto or the local Etobicoke public school . With the establishment of St. Leo elementary school, a Mimico Catholic School Board was also established for the one catholic school in Mimico. Originally St. Leo was served by the Sisters of St. Joseph who commuted, first from Toronto, later from their Etobicoke residence in Our Lady of Sorrows Parish . The school grew in the interwar years despite the creation of new 'daughter' parishes and schools in New Toronto , Humber and later, the Queensway . The school sits on land donated by parishioners of St. Leo's parish who used the school for many events until the building of a parish hall in the 1960s, and was operated by taxes raised from Mimico Catholics by the Mimico School Board until it joined the Metropolitan Catholic School Board in 1967 when the Town of Mimico ceased to exist and the Sisters of St. Joseph were replaced by lay staff.

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St. Leo Catholic Elementary School, Mimico is Toronto based place and this enity listed in Organization category. M8V.