Hmm. The great irony of the HWDSB right now is that the schools that are doing the best are not all in the best neighbourhoods - because the schools doing the best are usually the ones with the furthest to come in terms of test scores. Janet Lee, Stoney Creek Mountain, is an excellent school; also Hillcrest, though, since it's in the North End, the neighbourhood isn't great. (That's why it's doing well - the board and province have been pouring money and training into that school for five years, and it's working.)

The problem with the West End schools is that they do well enough on the testing to get away with not applying all the teaching strategies that the East End schools can't manage without. That will be changing, though, if it hasn't already started. There's a new provincial initiative, being launched in all schools this fall or next, to bring every school in the province up to the same standard. I suspect us East End people are going to be quite mirthful at the moans and groans from that end of the city when they realize how much work they have ahead of them. :)