Thames Valley District School Board TVDSB | |
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Location | |
Canada | |
Coordinates | 42°59′47″N81°12′24″W / 42.9965°N 81.2067°W |
District information | |
Motto | We build each student's tomorrow, every day. |
Schools | 184, 30 secondary, 154 elementary |
Budget | CA $1.1 billion [1] |
Students and staff | |
Students | 80k [2] |
Other information | |
Chair of the Board | Beth Mai |
Vice-chair of the Board | Dave Cripps |
Director of Education | Mark Fisher |
Elected trustees | 15: 6 representing London; 2 each for Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford; 1 Indigenous representative; 3 non-voting student trustees (Jana Anan, Savrup Kaur Saran, and Sir Frederick Nicholas) [3] ). |
Website | www |
The Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB; known as English-language Public District School Board No. 11 prior to 1999 [4] ) is a public school board in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was created on January 1, 1998, by the amalgamation of the Elgin County Board of Education, The Board of Education for the City of London, Middlesex County Board of Education, and Oxford County Board of Education.
The TVDSB serves an area over 7,000 square kilometres which includes urban, suburban and rural communities. It spans three counties and includes the cities of London, St. Thomas, and Woodstock, plus the towns of Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, and Strathroy-Caradoc, as well as several smaller towns and villages.
In 2006, the Board administered 184 schools (154 elementary and 30 secondary schools). They also provide alternative education programs for approximately 40,000 students through adult day school, continuing education, general interest, night school and summer school courses. Four future elementary schools in southwest London, northwest London, Woodstock, and Belmont are currently under construction or are in planning stages. [5] [6] Extensions and renovations to Eagle Heights, Aldborough, and River Heights public schools are currently underway. [7] [8]
The Thames Valley District School Board was the setting of R v. Jarvis, 2019 SCC 10 [9] a precedent-setting case of voyeurism in Canada. [10] In 2021, the Thames Valley District School Board was named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit related to the sexually inappropriate behaviour of one of its teachers, Ryan Jarvis. [11] Jarvis filmed at least 27 teenage students with a spy camera while he was an English teacher at H.B. Beal Secondary School. He used a camera concealed in a pen to film his female students' breasts. Jarvis became the first person in Canada to serve jail time for a voyeurism conviction. Jarvis' teaching license was revoked following his conviction. [12]
In 2021, Lawrence Thompson, a custodian at a TVDSB elementary school, was found guilty of four counts of kidnapping and sexual assault of a four-year-old girl. [13] During the investigation in 2018, the school board indicated it would fully cooperate with police and local law enforcement authorities. However, the TVDSB declined to provide a list of schools that the janitor previously worked at. [14]
The following is a list of the schools administered by the TVDSB and their towns/city:
Ingersoll is a town in Oxford County on the Thames River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The nearest cities are Woodstock to the east and London to the west.
Tillsonburg is a town in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada with a population of 18,615 located about 50 kilometres southeast of London, on Highway 3 at the junction of Highway 19.
Oxford County is a regional municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. Highway 401 runs east–west through the centre of the county, creating an urban industrial corridor with more than half the county's population, spanning 25 km between the Toyota auto assembly plant in Woodstock and the CAMI General Motors auto assembly plant in Ingersoll. The local economy is otherwise dominated by agriculture, especially the dairy industry.
Strathroy-Caradoc is a municipality located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of London.
The Lakehead District School Board oversees all secular English-language public schools in the Thunder Bay CMA and the townships of Gorham and Ware in Ontario, Canada. It administers education at 22 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and an adult education centre.
The Greater Essex County District School Board was created on January 1, 1998, with the amalgamation of the Windsor Board of Education and the Essex County Board of Education. The school board services families in both Windsor, Ontario and Essex County, Ontario in Canada.
The London District Catholic School Board (LDCSB), known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 38 prior to 1999) is a separate school board offering Catholic education in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It serves students from the cities of London, St. Thomas and Woodstock, as well as the counties of Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford.
Saunders Secondary School is located at 941 Viscount Road in the Westmount suburb of London, Ontario, Canada. It is named after William Saunders. William Saunders was a Canadian pioneer and an authority on agriculture and horticulture. Grades offered are 9–12. Saunders' school colours are red and gold and its mascot is a sabre-tooth tiger. Saunders Secondary School is the largest high school in the Thames Valley District School Board with close to 2000 students and 120 teachers. As of 2008, Saunders is also the site of new credit summer school for the TVDSB.
The Grand Erie District School Board is a school board that has legal jurisdiction over Norfolk County, Haldimand County, and Brant County in the province of Ontario, Canada. The main headquarters are in Brantford.
Parkside Collegiate Institute (PCI), with a population of over 1,000 students, is the largest of four secondary schools in St. Thomas, Ontario. It is part of the Thames Valley District School Board. Parkside was built to replace one of the original schools in St. Thomas, the former St. Thomas Collegiate Institute.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School or Laurier is a high school located at 450 Millbank Drive in the south east end of London, Ontario, Canada. The school is in the Thames Valley District School Board. The school has 1,114 students and 80 teachers and is named after Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. The school colours are green and blue. It is one of two French immersion high schools in the area.
King's Highway 19, commonly referred to as Highway 19, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, connecting Highway 3 in Tillsonburg with Highway 401 southeast of Ingersoll. The highway began as the Plank and Gravel Road, a toll road formed by the Ingersoll and Port Burwell Road Company. It was first assigned in 1930. Several extensions in the early 1930s took the route north to Highway 86 at Tralee. However, a significant amount of Highway 19 was decommissioned and turned over to local and county governments in 1997 and 1998.
South-West Oxford is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within Oxford County. The township had a population of 7,664 in the 2016 Canadian census. A predominantly rural municipality, South-West Oxford was formed in 1975 through the amalgamation of Dereham and West Oxford townships and the village of Beachville.
Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute is a public high school in Ingersoll, Ontario. As the only high school in Ingersoll, it also serves the village of Thamesford, and the rural areas surrounding both communities It is in the Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB). It is located in the north end of the town on Alma street. Historian and educator J.C. Herbert was a long-term principal of the school, where he has an award named after him.
Medway High School is a high school in Arva in Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, approximately one kilometre north of London, Ontario, Canada city limits.
Huron Heights is a neighbourhood in the City of London, Ontario, Canada. Located in the northeast part of the city, development began around 1960 and continued to the late 1960s in four distinct phases, and included three public elementary schools, and provided students to one Catholic elementary in the area and one public secondary school just northwest of the development. A large commercial plaza with anchor grocery and department stores was developed at the west edge, and a neighbourhood plaza was developed in the central part. A city arena was built and later supplemented with a public swimming pool.
Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School is a Catholic secondary school in Strathroy, Ontario, administered by the London District Catholic School Board.
East Elgin Secondary School is a composite secondary school located in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada. It serves pupils from Aylmer and its surrounding areas. The school is part of the Thames Valley District School Board, formerly known as the Elgin County Board of Education.