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Halton District School Board | |
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Location | |
J.W. Singleton Education Centre Canada2050 Guelph Line Burlington, Ontario New Street Education Centre 3250 New Street Burlington, Ontario | |
Coordinates | 43°20′35″N79°46′37″W / 43.3430°N 79.7770°W |
District information | |
Superintendent | Jacqueline Newton Scott Podrebarac Colette Ruddock Tina Salmini |
Chair of the board | Margo Shuttleworth |
Director of education | Curtis Ennis |
Schools | 102; 84 elementary, 18 secondary |
Budget | CA$664 [1] million |
Other information | |
Elected trustees | Kelly Amos Amy Collard Donna Danielli Tracey Ehl Harrison Heather Gerrits Jeanne Gray Andrea Grebenc Tanya Rocha Joanna Oliver Margo Shuttleworth Leah Reynolds [2] |
Website | www |
The Halton District School Board [3] serves public school students throughout Halton Region, including the municipalities of Burlington, [4] Halton Hills, [5] Milton [6] and Oakville. [7] Its administration area is to the southwest of the city of Toronto. In 2006-2007, it served almost 50,000 students, excluding those in adult, alternative, and Community Education programs.
Education in the former Halton County was previously governed by a framework of boards for various high school districts and public school districts associated with them. [8] In 1967, as a result of initiatives undertaken by then Minister of Education Bill Davis, work was begun to amalgamate all boards on a county-wide level throughout the Province, and such a move was recommended to the Halton County Council that year for its approval. [9] The move was opposed by the southern boards of education in Burlington and Oakville, [10] but that was overruled upon passage of mandatory legislation by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1968. [11]
The Board was constituted as the Halton County Board of Education, which was established on January 1, 1969. [12] When the County was replaced by the Regional Municipality of Halton, the Board became the Halton Board of Education. [13]
As part of the province-wide restructuring of Ontario's school boards as a consequence of the passage of the Fewer School Boards Act, 1997, [14] the English-language Public District School Board No. 20 was created to take over the Region's schools. [15] It was merged with the former Board at the beginning of 1998, and was renamed as the "Halton District School Board" in 1999. [16]
The Board operates 76 elementary schools, and 17 secondary schools, which are organized into the following areas:
Secondary school enrolment and Fraser Institute provincial rankings are as follows:
Name | Area | Enrolment | 1-year ranking of 747 | 5-year ranking of 623 |
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Abbey Park High School | East | 954 | 2 | 9 |
Garth Webb Secondary School | East | 1092 | 33 | 42 |
Iroquois Ridge High School | East | 1358 | 25 | 12 |
Oakville Trafalgar High School | East | 1245 | 11 | 9 |
T. A. Blakelock High School | East | 1125 | 59 | 70 |
White Oaks Secondary School | East | 1865 | 43 | 36 |
Acton District High School | North | 453 | 338 | 279 |
Craig Kielburger Secondary School | North | 1499 | 175 | 148 |
Georgetown District High School | North | 1654 | 175 | 120 |
Milton District High School | North | 921 | 115 | 120 |
Aldershot High School | West | 436 | 156 | 148 |
Burlington Central High School | West | 593 | 445 | 279 |
Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School | West | 1425 | 115 | – |
Lester B. Pearson High School | West | 416 | 68 | 87 |
M.M. Robinson High School | West | 740 | 462 | 416 |
Nelson High School | West | 996 | 47 | 42 |
Robert Bateman High School | West | 797 | 413 | 262 |
As required by the Ontario Ministry of Education, [18] the following student trustees have been named to serve on the Board:
The Halton District School Board's Board of Trustees annually elect its chair and a vice-chair at its Annual Organization Meetings (AOM). The current chair of the Halton District School is Margo Shuttleworth and the current vice-chair is Tracey Ehl Harrison. [25]
Term | Board of Trustee Chair | Board of Trustees Vice-Chair |
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2022 - 2023 | Margo Shuttleworth | Tracey Ehl Harrison |
2020 - 2021 2019 - 2020 2018 - 2019 2017 - 2018 | Andréa Grebenc | Tracey Ehl Harrison |
2016 - 2017 2015 - 2016 2014 - 2015 2013 - 2014 | Kelly Amos [26] |
The Board also operates the following specialized facilities:
The Pathways programme encourages all post-secondary options, from apprenticeship, to college, to university, to the workplace. [27] The Board has also introduced specialist high skills majors and other unique programs for students, including fully online high school credits. [28]
The International Baccalaureate programme is offered at:
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