TOPS is a significantly accelerated and enriched program, by the completion of grade 10, TOPS students have completed three years of mathematics in two with enrichment. In Grade 11, TOPS students take the AP equivalent TOPS Calculus course. More than 2/3’s of them opt for the more difficult of the two calculus options. Either way, these courses are full first …
Again, we are strictly limited to no more than 58-60 students per TOPS year. Historically VERY few students leave the program and if they do so most will because their family has moved out of the area. The small number of openings in Grade 10 are a direct result that when in the program so many young people have a …
Our school is overenrolled and although we would like to serve more students into the program we are restricted to no more than 58-60 new TOPS students each year.
Students must apply through the central TDSB application portal. A centralized random selection process (lottery) will be used if there are more applicants than spots. 50% of the spots this year will go to students of Valley Park Middle School, and 20% of spots will go to historically and currently underserved communities, namely students self-identifying as Indigenous, Black, Latino, Latina …
