Education Facts

Schools and School Boards

The following are the most recent facts and figures available for Ontario's publicly funded education system.

  • Administration: Ontario's schools are administered by district school boards and school authorities.
  • School boards are divided as follows:
    • 31 English Public
    • 29 English Catholic
    • 4 French Public
    • 8 French Catholic
  • There are 11 school authorities, consisting of 4 geographically isolated boards, 6 hospital-based school authorities and the Provincial Schools Authority.
  • As of 2010-2011, there were 4,004 elementary and 909 secondary schools in Ontario*.

Education Funding

  • For 2010-11, the government's total investment excluding capital was $20.3 billion.
  • For 2010-11, the government's total capital investment was $0.9 billion.
  • For 2011-12, the government's total investment excluding capital was projected to be $21 billion.
  • For 2011-12, the government's total capital investment was projected to be $1.4 billion.

Teachers, Administrators and Early Childhood Educators**

  • In 2010-2011, there were 114,441.07 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers, consisting of 70,760.03 elementary and 43,681.04 secondary teachers.
  • In 2010-2011, there were 7,411.44 FTE administrators (principals and vice-principals), consisting of 5,315.39 elementary and 2,096.05 secondary administrators.
  • In 2010-2011, there were 1,435.00 FTE early childhood educators.

Enrolment

  • As of 2010-11* the number of students in Ontario was: 2,051,865.

The following illustrates enrolment by grade and language, as of 2010-11*:

Elementary
Grade English Language French Language Total
Junior Kindergarten 113,791 8,107 121,898
Kindergarten 119,529 7,929 127,458
Grade 1 125,114 7,647 132,761
Grade 2 124,935 7,233 132,168
Grade 3 123,866 6,917 130,783
Grade 4 129,171 6,750 135,921
Grade 5 128,021 6,500 134,521
Grade 6 132,059 6,555 138,614
Grade 7 135,543 6,109 141,652
Grade 8 138,549 6,195 144,744
Total 1,270,578 69,942 1,340,520


Secondary
Grade English Language French Language Total
Grade 9*** 151,294 5,973 157,267
Grade 10 157,899 5,996 163,895
Grade 11 161,198 5,854 167,052
Grade 12 216,047 7,084 223,131
Total 686,438 24,907 711,345

Source: As reported by schools in Ontario School Information System (OnSIS), 2010-2011* (Final).
Data includes public and Roman Catholic schools and school authorities.
Data excludes private schools and publicly funded hospital and provincial schools and care, treatment and correctional facilities.

For data on prior years, see our Quick Facts publications:

* Data is not strictly comparable to years prior to 2006-07 due to a change in data collection methods in 2006-07.
** Data excludes personnel on leave and long-term occasional personnel.
*** Data includes students designated as “Pre-Grade 9”.