Teachers in Toronto public schools call in sick on Fridays significantly more often than other days of the week, data shows.

Rates of Toronto students reporting they are helped by private tutors have grown by 60% over the last five years, Toronto school board data shows. 8% of students in grades 7 and 8 reported a private tutor in 2011, as opposed to 5% in 2006. Tutoring rates for high school students rose from 7% to 11% in the same period.

In 93 out of 115 Toronto high schools, students said they felt safer in the community than in the outdoor spaces of their own schools

Cyberbullying has been everywhere in the news for the most wrenching of reasons. But Toronto teens say they’re still more likely to get teased, taunted or gossiped about in real life than bullied online.

This exclusive dissection of survey responses from tens of thousands of Toronto students began nine months ago, when Global News requested school-by-school results from the student census in July of last year, using access-to-information laws. That data was eventually delivered, as a set of 318 .pdf files, in February of this year. They shed unique insights into students' fears of violence, experience of bullying, private tuition (up, a lot) and part-time employment (down, a lot). <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/student-census/"></a><b>Read the series</b>

The number of applicants to Ontario teacher's colleges has dropped in half since 2007, hitting its lowest point in sixteen years. The reason - woefully bad job prospects for teaching graduates.

Low math scores have been a chronic problem in the province's elementary and high schools for years, but Education Minister Ramona Jennex said Tuesday her department is taking steps towards changing that. Check your local school's scores with our interactive map.

The income level of a school’s community correlates with the school’s scoring in Ontario’s standardized tests – meaning richer communities will produce better scores – according to data obtained by <em>Global News</em>.