St. Thomas of Villanova College is a middle school and high school in King City, Ontario, Canada. It was established at Mary Lake by lay educators Paul Paradiso and Grant Purdy in 1999 at Mary Lake Augustinian Monastery as a Catholic school together with the Order of Saint Augustine's friars of Toronto. The school campus is within the beautiful grounds of this Augustinian monastic foundation in King City. The school boasts new facilities, including a full-service Library and Resource Centre, multiple computer labs, science labs, and an expansive Athletic Centre that includes an Olympic sized court, in addition to three others, a weight room, indoor running track, and a massive great hall. Outdoor fields include two soccer fields and one football field and running track. The school also uses the 'House system', with houses such as St. Augustine, St. Nicholas, St. Rita, and St. Monica.
It has a curriculum for students in grades five to twelve.
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