According to an issue of Journal RAIC (July 1927), General Mercer Schools is used as an example of the modern Toronto Public School plan that deals with beaing in congested districts. It has 3-storeys with a basement, with twenty-nine classrooms and combination kindergarten and assemby hall. The basement provides for playrooms and toilets. The kindergarten room is a storey and a half high, without a basement under, and at the rear plats are arranged to allow full vision of the platform when the room is used for assemby. A system of rolling shutters between the kindergarten and the corridor permits of an overflow assemby, the corridor floor level being higher than the floor of the room. The small rooms at the side of the platform are used as coat rooms and retiring rooms. The arrangement of the plan is governed by the necessity of erecting the building in sections, the first unit being twelve rooms which must accomodate administration offices. This feature does not allow of the proper location of administartion rooms. 

• Architect - C.E. Cyril Dyson  <-- More buildings by this architect.