Report cards are out. Not for students, but for schools.
The Fraser Institute has released its rankings of Ontario’s elementary schools, and only two in Waterloo Region crack the top 100.
The region’s highest performing school is Waterloo’s Laurelwood Public school, with a score of 9.7 out of a possible 10.
It is tied for 25th best school in Ontario.
The results are based on standardized testing done in Grades 3 and 6 reading, writing, and math.
Director Peter Cowley tells 570 News, the Waterloo Catholic District School Board scored an average 6.1, while the Waterloo Region District School Board’s average score was 5.6.
The provincial average is 6 out of 10.
Cowley says the disappointing news is that overall, Ontario elementary schools haven’t made much significant improvement over five years.
However, he says the encouraging news is that the most recent round of testing shows schools can make improvements, regardless of family income or percentage of ESL students.
Our Lady of Lourdes in Waterloo was the only other school in the region in the top 100.
Guelph’s Edward Johnson School received a score of 10, jumping up from a 40th place ranking five years ago.
On the other end of the spectrum, Cambridge’s Christ the King elementary school had the lowest ranking of local schools.
It scored 2.8, falling from a 4.9 rating in 2007.
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Why do people get so upset when a stufy like this comes out? THe Fraser institute uses the best information they have……grade 3 and grade 6 results. It’s not bias….it’s based on results. So if your school is better than others….or lower than others….deal with it. We all can have kids at the top schools.
When talking about improvement are they comparing results of the students who wrote EQAO in Grade 3 with the same cohort writing in Grade 6? How can you compare Grade 3s one year to Grade 3s the next…there are so many variables from one cohort to the next.
Agree 100% with Chickenhead about the bias from this “institute”. Why doesn’t the media add a note about the source (and ideology) of source of these “studies”? Tell the readers who funds the Fraser Institute (if they even make that information public).
The Fraser Institute is an EXTREME right wing neo-conservative “think tank.” They are about as unbiased as Fox News. They have a lot of nerve putting out “report cards” on anything–the current disaster called the Ontario Education System is a direct result of their idiotic dogma, implemented word-for-word by Mike Harris and his uneducated buffoon of an education minister John Snobolen.
Want to know why Johnny can’t read and yet never fails anything? Ask the Fraser Institute. Our education system was gutted and destroyed according to the Fraser Institute’s designs.