Simcoe County District School Board

Simcoe County District School Board (SCDSB)
Location
	1170 Highway 26 West; Midhurst, Ontario; L9X 1N6; Simcoe County, Ontario; Canada
Coordinates	44.44642°N 79.74853°W
District information
Motto	Your Future... Our Priority
Chair of the board	Jodi Lloyd
Director of education	Steve Blake[1]
Schools	116 (14 Secondary, 87 Elementary, 9 Alternative Secondary, 6 Learning Centres)
Budget	CA$508.7 million (2011-12)
Students and staff
Students	50,000 (approx.)
Staff	6,000+
Other information
Elected trustees	David O'Brien (Barrie, Wards 1-3) ; Donna Armstrong (Innisfil & Bradford West Gwillimbury) ; Peter Beacock (Oro-Medonte & Springwater (Chairperson)) ; Lisa-Marie Wilson (Barrie Wards 7-10) ; Tanya Snell (Collingwood and Wasaga Beach) ; Rob North (Adjala-Tosorontio Clearview, Essa & CFB Borden) ; Sarah Beitz (New Tecumseth) ; Jodi Lloyd (Orillia, Ramara) ; Vacant (Midland, Tay, Severn) ; Beth Mouratidis (Barrie Wards 4-6); P.J Sandy (First Nation Communities)
Website	Official website

Simcoe County District School Board (SCDSB, known as English-language Public District School Board No. 17 prior to 1999[2]) is an Ontario, Canada, English speaking public school board, serving Simcoe County. The schools and learning centres are branched throughout 4,800 square kilometres in Simcoe County.[3] This Central Ontario setting is bordered by the Holland Marsh in the south, the Trent-Severn Waterway in the east, Grey County in the west and Muskoka in the north.[3]

Staff and students

The SCDSB currently has over 50,000 students in 87 elementary schools, 14 secondary schools, 9 alternative secondary schools and 6 adult learning centres.[4] The SCDSB also employs over 6,000 employees.[3]

Budget

The SCDSB is funded by the Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario. Funding for the year ending August 2012 totals some $508,762,274. This is broken down by 18 major funding lines including Pupil Foundation Grant (252.5 M), School Foundation Grant (34.4 M), Special Education Grant (66.7 M), Language Grant (6.5 M), FNMI Grant (1.2 M), Learning Opportunities Grant (4.0 M), Safe School Supplement (0.9 M), Program Enhancement Grant (1.0 M), Continuing Education Grant (2.6 M), Cost Adjustment/ Teacher Qualifications (38.8 M), Student Transportation Grant (18.8 M), Declining Enrolment Adjustment (2.6 M), School Board Administration and Governance (13.1 M), School Operations Allocation (44.7 M), School Renewal Allocation (6.7), Interest Expense (11.8 M), Non-Permanently Financed Capital Debt (2.0 M). These amounts are further broken down by the Ministry of Education, many with restrictions on their use, and others that are locally managed. Funding for the 2012-13 school year is projected to be approximately 2.4 million dollars less than 2011-12, due to the province's focus on containing costs in order to address a 16 billion dollar deficit. Unlike all other levels of government, school boards are not allowed to maintain any long term operational deficits.

High school rankings

Secondary school Fraser Institute provincial rankings as of 2019,[5] and enrollments as of 2020 are as follows:.

SCDSB secondary schools
Name	Location	Enrollment	1-year ranking of 739	5-year ranking of 630
Banting Memorial High School	Alliston	1370[6]	440	265
Barrie North Collegiate Institute	Barrie	1091[7]	391	335
Bear Creek Secondary School	Barrie	1533[8]	420	354
Bradford District High School	Bradford	1098[9]	149	228
Collingwood Collegiate Institute	Collingwood	1392[10]	180	303
Eastview Secondary School	Barrie	1356[11]	440	352
Elmvale District High School	Springwater	388[12]	406	457
Georgian Bay District Secondary School	Midland	751[13]	620	NA
Innisdale Secondary School	Barrie	1608[14]	440	352
Nantyr Shores Secondary School	Innisfil	1171[15]	530	427
Nottawasaga Pines Secondary School	Angus	760	542	442
Orillia Secondary School	Orillia	1079[16]	261	N/A
Stayner Collegiate Institute	Clearview	383[17]	687	564
Twin Lakes Secondary School	Orillia	761[18]	642	531

Former secondary schools

Barrie Central Collegiate Institute, founded in 1843, closed in 2016.[19]

King Edward Public School controversy

The Ministry of Education has released a report that upholds the King Edward Public School accommodations review process.[20] The accommodations review resulted in the Simcoe County District School Board’s decision to close the aging Barrie school by September 2008. King Edward was designated as “prohibitive to repair” by the Ministry of Education after province-wide inspections in 2003.

In response to a request by individuals in the King Edward community, the Ministry of Education appointed Dave Cooke, an independent facilitator, to review the three-year process that led to the Board’s closure decision. The facilitator met with the King Edward Accommodations Review Task Force members, other community members, trustees, and staff during the summer.

A Ministry of Education press release noted that the facilitator “determined that the board did follow its board-approved accommodation review policy as well as the intent of the McGuinty government’s Good Places to Learn initiative.” In addition, the release states that the facilitator “made recommendations for the board to improve its accommodation review process, but also determined that the outcome of the review of King Edward would not have changed under a different process.”

SCDSB Associate Director Lou Brandes agreed that it is time to proceed with next steps. “David Cooke's review has validated our Accommodation Task Force Review process as well as the integrity and the inclusiveness of the work of the committee members,” he says. “Transition teams made up of principals, staff and parents from King Edward, Allandale Heights Public School and Assikinack Public School communities will be continuing to work with their communities over the next two years in preparation of the transfer of students to their new locations in September 2008.”

The decision to close the school was made on April 26, 2006, nearly three years after the Ministry of Education conducted province-wide school inspections and deemed the school to be “prohibitive to repair”.

The “prohibitive to repair” designation is made when the cost of renewing the school building surpasses 65% of the cost of the replacement value of the existing building.

As a result of receiving this designation, the Simcoe County District School Board followed the procedures set out in Board Policy 2313, School Closure and Consolidation. The King Edward Accommodations Review Task Force Committee was formed in November 2003 to begin the accommodations review process and make recommendations for Board consideration.

Schools

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