Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, Toronto

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”Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School and Regional Arts Centre, originally known as Bishop Francis Marrocco Catholic Secondary School and St. Joseph's Intermediate and Commercial School is a Catholic secondary school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.HistoryThe schools were named after the Toronto Auxiliary Bishop who worked with Archbishop Pocock in the Archdiocese of Toronto's great efforts in the 1960s to extend the availability of catholic secondary education and the American monk Thomas Merton. One of the oldest catholic secondary schools in Toronto, Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton began as two schools. In 1880, the Sisters of St. Joseph established St. Joseph's Intermediate and Commercial School in the Cabbagetown area as an all-girls commercial school. Following the extension of funding for Catholic secondary schools by the province after 1984, St. Joseph Commercial was renamed to Thomas Merton Catholic High School as a co-educational school. The present day school, known as Bishop Francis Marrocco was officially established by the Metropolitan Separate School Board (later rechristened as the Toronto Catholic District School Board) on September 2, 1986 using the facilities of Richard W. Scott Catholic Elementary School in the St. Clair/Dufferin area.The Marrocco and Merton schools were consolidated in September 1988 in the former West Park Secondary School on 1515 Bloor Street West in the Bloor/Dundas area, which was closed due to low enrollment and the property was ceded over to the MSSB as the new site of the school. The original school consisted of Michael Monk as the first principal, 250 Marrocco students, 500 Merton students and 350 new grade 9 Marrocco/Merton students totaling to 1100 students. Lire plus

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