Note
Property mix is the catchment story
When a school boundary's median asking price is far above or below its city's, the explanation is almost always which dwelling types sit inside it — not how the school is regarded, where it is located or what its test scores say.
Toronto's most expensive elementary-school catchment on October 13 is Denlow Public School's, at a median asking price of $5.2M — roughly 6.5 times the city-wide median of $799K. Its cheapest qualifying catchment is Brookview Middle School's, at $385K. The gap is 13.6×. But the gap is almost entirely explained by what is for sale inside each boundary, not what is taught inside each school.
Brookview's 34 active listings break down to 19 condo apartments, 7 detached houses, 5 townhouses and 3 semi-detached homes. More than half the inventory is condo apartment, and the condo median inside that boundary is $310K — roughly what the boundary's overall median reflects. Denlow's 31 listings are overwhelmingly detached, at prices that start above $1.7M. The boundary median follows the dominant dwelling type in each case.
The same pattern is visible at scale. Jarvis Collegiate Institute's catchment — Toronto's largest by active inventory with 1,443 homes for sale — is 88% condo apartment. Its median asking price is $675K, below the city median, even though it spans some of Toronto's most expensive streets. The 52 detached homes inside the same boundary carry a median of $5.2M, but they are outnumbered 24 to 1 by condos, so they barely move the boundary figure.
Why it matters for buyers
A catchment median that looks low is usually a boundary full of condos, not a boundary full of underpriced detached homes. A catchment median that looks high is usually a boundary with very little multi-residential inventory. Comparing two catchment medians without knowing the mix behind each is comparing apples to apartment buildings. Every DistrictIQ school profile breaks its catchment inventory by type for exactly this reason — the type table, not the headline median, is where the comparable information sits.
Type breakdowns were read from each school's profile page on DistrictIQ, which resolves its inventory from the same hourly-cached catchment-listing sweep behind every school profile and the catchment league tables. Medians are published only for dwelling types with five or more active listings inside the boundary. The city-wide median and type shares were read from the /market/toronto page, which resolves from the same listing feed. All figures are asking (list) prices from active for-sale MLS® listings, never sold prices.
- Geography
- Toronto (with reference to the wider Ontario pattern)
Every figure quoted above was read from a public DistrictIQ page on the date beside it, and each page states its own as-of date. Open the page to see what it reads today.
- Brookview Middle School: 34 homes, 19 condo, median $385K; condo median $310Kas of
- Denlow Public School: 31 homes, median $5.2M, overwhelmingly detachedas of
- Jarvis Collegiate Institute: 1,443 homes, 1,270 condo (88%), median $675K; detached median $5.2Mas of
- Toronto city-wide: 9,356 homes, median $799K, 54% condo apartmentas of
A Note is one finding, written once. Nothing on this page resolves from current inventory: every figure was read from the DistrictIQ page named beside it, on the date given there, and the wording was fixed on October 13, 2026. Inventory moves and these figures do not, so the live number is always the one on the linked page. Where the two disagree, trust the linked page.
Market figures are derived by DistrictIQ from active TRREB / PropTx MLS® listings and reflect list-price activity (not sold prices) as of the date shown. They are provided for general information only, are not an appraisal, financial or investment advice, and must not be relied upon for any transaction. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.