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Thunder Bay has 38 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 5 secondary schools, 2 private schools, a university, two colleges, a medical school, and an adult education facility. The school boards offer education programmes for people with special needs or who are in trouble with the law, as well as night school. The city also has several other private for-profit colleges and tutoring programmes.
The main school boards serving the Thunder Bay area are the Lakehead District School Board, the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board, the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales and Conseil scolaire du Grand Nord.
The Lakehead District School Board is the largest, with 22 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and a centre for adult studies. The Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board is the second largest with 16 elementary schools, 3 middle schools and 2 high schools. CSDC Aurores boréales operates one elementary and one high school in Thunder Bay, and an additional six schools throughout the Thunder Bay District. Conseil scolaire du Grand Nord operates one public French-language elementary school in Thunder Bay, and additional schools throughout Northern Ontario.
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Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous municipality in Northern Ontario. Its population is 108,843 according to the 2021 Canadian census. Located on Lake Superior, the census metropolitan area of Thunder Bay has a population of 123,258 and consists of the city of Thunder Bay, the municipalities of Oliver Paipoonge and Neebing, the townships of Shuniah, Conmee, O'Connor, and Gillies, and the Fort William First Nation.
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École secondaire catholique de la Vérendrye (ESCDLV) is a French Catholic high school located in Port Arthur, Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is part of the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales, a French Catholic school board serving Northwestern Ontario. The school opened in 2004 on the site of the former Prospect Avenue Public School. The construction of the French language high school faced opposition from Thunder Bay's Anglophone majority. The school is named after Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, a French explorer. La Vérendrye has a high graduation rate, and its enrolment has increased annually since it opened, and the building will be expanded in the near future. There is a total of 37 employees at La Vérendrye as of January 2009.
The 2006 Thunder Bay municipal election was held on 13 November 2006 in Thunder Bay, Ontario to elect a mayor, 12 city councillors, trustees for the Lakehead District School Board, the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board, the Conseil scolaire de district du Grand Nord de l'Ontario, and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales. This election coincided with the 2006 Ontario municipal elections being held across Ontario.
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