Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of Vaughan to the west and the town of Markham to the east.
According to the 2001 Census, the population of Thornhill-Vaughan was 56,361 and the population of Thornhill-Markham was 47,333.
Thornhill's growth since the 1960s and 1970s has been largely connected to its location bordering what is now the City of Toronto. Large housing developments, particularly beginning in the 1980s with such projects as the Tannenbaum family's Spring Farm area near Bathurst and Clark.
Secondary schools
- Stephen Lewis Secondary School, established in 2006
- Thornhill Secondary School, established in 1955
- Thornlea Secondary School, established in 1969
- Vaughan Secondary School, established in 1989
- Westmount Collegiate Institute, established in 1996
Elementary schools
- Bakersfield Public School, established in 2003
- Baythorn Public School
- Bayview Glen Public School
- Bayview Fairways Public School
- Brownridge Public School
- Carrville Mills Public School, established in 2007
- Charlton Public School
- Doncrest Public School
- E.J. Sand Public School
- German Mills Public School
- Glen Shields Public School
- Henderson Avenue Public School
- Herbert H. Carnegie Public School
- Johnsview Village Public School
- Julliard Public School
- Louis Honoré Fréchette Public School, established in 1991
- Roberta Bondar Public School, established in 2008
- Rosedale Heights Public School
- Stornoway Cresent Public School
- Thornhill Public School
- Thornhill Woods Public School, established in 2005
- Ventura Park Public School, established in 1999
- Westminster Public School, established in 1983
- Willowbrook Public School
- Woodland Public School
- Yorkhill Elementary School
- St. Elizabeth Catholic High School.Bishop Scalabrini Catholic Elementary School
- St. Elizabeth Catholic High School, established in 1987
- St. Joseph the Worker
- St. Robert Catholic High School
- St. Anthony Catholic Elementary School
- St. Michael Catholic Academy
- St. Luke Catholic Elementary School
Private schools
Jewish Schools
- Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
- Eitz Chaim Day School
- TanenbaumCHAT
- Leo Baeck Day School
- Netivot HaTorah Day School
- Cheder Chabad
- Or Haemet Sephardic School
- Ohr Menachem Sunday School
Islamic Schools
- As-Sadiq Islamic School
Other Schools
- Greenhill Village Academy (formerly Pushkin Private School)
- Toronto Waldorf School
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