School Board Progress Reports


Grade 10 Literacy Test

The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) annually assesses the literacy skills of Ontario’s Grade 10 students through the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. EQAO is an arm’s-length agency of the provincial government and provides parents, teachers and the public with accurate and reliable information about student achievement.

The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test assesses reading and writing skills that students are expected to have learned in all subjects by the end of Grade 9. Students have the opportunity to rewrite the test if they fail; however, they must pass the test or enrol in and pass the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course to obtain the graduation literacy requirement.

In 2008-09, the percentage of Grade 10 students who were eligible to write the test for the first time and who fully participated in and passed the literacy test was 85 per cent for English-language students and 84 per cent for French-language students.

This chart is a snapshot of Grade 10 literacy test results by board.

Algoma DSB 81%
Algonquin and Lakeshore CDSB 92%
Avon Maitland DSB 88%
Bluewater DSB 79%
Brant Haldimand Norfolk CDSB 85%
Bruce-Grey CDSB 90%
CDSB of Eastern Ontario 90%
Céc du Centre-Est de l'Ontario 88%
Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario 88%
CSD des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest 80%
CSD du Centre Sud-Ouest 81%
CSD du Grand Nord de l'Ontario 71%
CSD du Nord-Est de l'Ontario 68%
CSDC Centre-Sud 84%
CSDC de l'Est ontarien 87%
CSDC des Aurores boréales 81%
CSDC des Grandes Rivières 79%
CSDC du Nouvel-Ontario 82%
CSDC Franco-Nord 80%
DSB of Niagara 83%
DSB Ontario North East 78%
Dufferin-Peel CDSB 88%
Durham CDSB 87%
Durham DSB 84%
Grand Erie DSB 75%
Greater Essex County DSB 83%
Halton CDSB 92%
Halton DSB 91%
Hamilton-Wentworth CDSB 86%
Hamilton-Wentworth DSB 83%
Hastings & Prince Edward DSB 76%
Huron Perth CDSB 92%
Huron-Superior CDSB 81%
Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB 81%
Keewatin-Patricia DSB 72%
Kenora CDSB 75%
Lakehead DSB 82%
Lambton Kent DSB 79%
Limestone DSB 82%
London District Catholic School Board 88%
Near North DSB 81%
Niagara CDSB 88%
Nipissing-Parry Sound CDSB 75%
Northeastern CDSB 75%
Northwest CDSB NA
Ottawa CDSB 89%
Ottawa-Carleton DSB 88%
Peel DSB 84%
Peterborough Victoria Northumberland CDSB 85%
Rainbow DSB 82%
Rainy River DSB 84%
Renfrew County CDSB 82%
Renfrew County DSB 83%
Simcoe County DSB 80%
Simcoe Muskoka CDSB 83%
St Clair CDSB 83%
Sudbury CDSB 87%
Superior North CDSB NA
Superior-Greenstone DSB 79%
Thames Valley DSB 82%
Thunder Bay CDSB 87%
Toronto CDSB 84%
Toronto DSB 82%
Trillium Lakelands DSB 85%
Upper Canada DSB 82%
Upper Grand DSB 86%
Waterloo CDSB 84%
Waterloo Region DSB 88%
Wellington CDSB 91%
Windsor-Essex CDSB 85%
York CDSB 91%
York Region DSB 90%

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