Eglinton East

Eglinton East, historically known as Knob Hill, is a residential and commercial neighbourhood in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Stansbury Crescent, Citadel Drive, and West Highland Creek to the north, Midland Avenue to the west, the CNR rail line, Brimley Road, and Eglinton Avenue to the south, and Bellamy Road North to the east.Eglinton East is a working-class neighbourhood with a high percentage of immigration to the area. Sri Lanka has produced the most immigration to the area over the past decade and correspondingly the most spoken (non English) language is Tamil. There is a large number of East Indian, Filipino and Jamaican people living in this neighbourhood. While there is an equal number of Chinese the other figures are above average.The residents of this neighbourhood primarily live in high rise buildings with only 22% of people owning their place of residence.SchoolsTabor Park Vocational School is a former technical school built in 1964 and established on September 7, 1965 by the Scarborough Board of Education to meet the needs of the large baby boom generation in the newly and rapidly developing area of the city. It was closed in 1986 when Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies started and the property was later transferred to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now Toronto Catholic District School Board)(opened in 1954 as a JK-8 school; became JK-6) in 2011 and Pringdale Gardens Junior Public School (opened in 1963 as a JK-8 school; became JK-6