Students
As of 2008, 1408 students are in attendance at Woburn. Of these, 683 (49%) are female and 725 (51%) are male. 908 (64%) have a primary language other than English, and 17% have been living in Canada for five or fewer years. Over 70 different languages and many cultures are represented at Woburn.
The school has been the home for Scarborough's gifted programme for exceptional students since 1978.
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“Separatism of any kind promotes marginalization of those unwilling to grapple with the whole body of knowledge and creative works available to others. This is true of black students who do not want to read works by white writers, of female students of any race who do not want to read books by men, and of white students who only want to read works by white writers.”
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