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At St. Paul Catholic School, our mission is to ensure that all of our students are valued equally and that their unique strengths and needs are recognized and met.

We meet the diverse needs of our students through:

• Breakfast club.

• Nutrition Program, served at 10:00 AM daily.

• Safe Arrival program.

• Ongoing peace education strategies.

• Clearly articulated behaviour code.

• Access to special education programs.

• Access to enrichment/gifted programs.

• Access to technology.

• Access to instrumental music program (steel drum band).

• Access to computer literacy programs - 21st Century Learning.

• Access to French as a Second Language - beginning in Grade 1.

• English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction.

• Yearly overnight excursions for our Grade 8 class.

• Field trips and experiential learning opportunities from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8.

• Enriched and varied extracurricular activities.

• Competitive sports teams and intramural opportunities.

• Head start program or pre-school literacy program for pre-Junior Kindergarten students started in January 1996. This is a pioneer program and will utilize the services of a retired teacher and our family resource drop-in centre.

St. Paul Catholic School has been in operation on its present site on Sackville Street, behind St. Paul’s Basilica near the burial site of the hundreds of Irish refugees from the Great Hunger in 1847, since 1959. Similar to St. Paul's Basilica, St. Paul Catholic School has a glorious history.

The school began in 1842 when two classes, separated by a screen, were opened in St. Paul's Basilica. In 1853, a wooden building was erected on the site of the present St. Paul's Basilica. In its earliest days, St. Paul Catholic School was administered by the De La Salle Brothers and the Sisters of St. Joseph. In 1881, a new school was built on Queen Street, adjacent to St. Paul’s Basilica.

St. Paul's Basilica, established in 1822, is the mother church and oldest Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Toronto. After the Diocese was created in 1841, Bishop Michael Power used St. Paul’s Basilica as his unofficial cathedral until the completion of St. Michael’s Cathedral in 1848.

St. Paul Catholic School is synonymous with the concept of Catholic education. In existence for 170 years, our mandate is to live Christ's message through the activities of everyone involved in our community.

Our patron, Saint Paul, urges us to carry out our responsibilities with the same zeal and determination that he displayed after his conversion experience on the road to Damascus. The feast of St. Paul is celebrated on January 25, the date of St. Paul’s conversion. On his way to Damascus to arrest a group of Christians, St. Paul was knocked to the ground, struck blind by a heavenly light, and given the message that in persecuting Christians, he was persecuting Christ. The experience had such a profound spiritual effect on him that he became a Christian. He was baptized, changed his name to Paul to reflect his new persona, and began travelling and preaching to the Gentiles. St. Paul wrote a number of letters to various communities he established or who sought his advice. St. Paul died a martyr in Rome.