Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School (locally known as JVCSS, Jean Vanier CSS, Jean Vanier, or shorten as Vanier) is a Roman Catholic high school located in the neighbourhood of Eglinton East at Midland Ave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada operated by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. It is named after Jean Vanier, the man who founded L'Arche in 1964. The school can sometimes referred to the Maverick Ranch, a type of unbranded horse.
Prior to the founding of Jean Vanier C.S.S., the facility was opened in 1965 by Scarborough Board of Education (now Toronto District School Board) as Tabor Park Vocational School until 1986 when Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies established in that location.
The school houses 1017 students as of the 2012-2013 year and it's ranked 331 out of 725 schools in the Fraser Institute report card.
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