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
  • School authorities consist of geographically isolated boards and hospital school boards.
    • There are 11 School Authorities.
    • As of 2009-2010, there were 4,020 elementary and 911 secondary schools in Ontario*.

Education Funding

  • For 2009-10, the government's total investment excluding capital in education was $19.5 billion.
  • For 2009-10, the government's total capital investment in education was $1.1 billion.
  • For 2010-11, the government's total investment excluding capital was projected to be $20.3 billion.
  • For 2010-11, the government's total capital investment was projected to be $1.2 billion.

Teachers and Administrators**

  • In 2009-2010, there were 114,386.57 (FTE – Full-Time Equivalent) teachers, consisting of 70,453.05 elementary and 43,933.52 secondary teachers.
  • In 2009-2010, there were 7,417.53 administrators (principals and vice-principals) (FTE –Full-Time Equivalent), consisting of 5,323.16 elementary and 2,094.37 secondary administrators.

Enrolment

As of 2009-10* the number of students in Ontario was: 2,061,390.

The following illustrates enrolment by grade and language, as of 2009-10*:

Elementary
Grade English Language French Language Total
Junior Kindergarten 111,346 7,523 118,869
Kindergarten 118,541 7,553 126,094
Grade 1 123,769 7,320 131,089
Grade 2 122,716 6,921 129,637
Grade 3 127,702 6,761 134,463
Grade 4 126,501 6,514 133,015
Grade 5 130,870 6,605 137,475
Grade 6 134,449 6,356 140,805
Grade 7 136,807 6,208 143,015
Grade 8 142,587 6,254 148,841
Total 1,275,288 68,015 1,343,303


Secondary
Grade English Language French Language Total
Pre-Grade 9 532   532
Grade 9 156,952 6,083 163,035
Grade 10 158,432 5,900 164,332
Grade 11 160,918 6,022 166,940
Grade 12 216,292 6,956 223,248
Total 693,126 24,961 718,087

Source: As reported by schools in Ontario School Information System (OnSIS), 2009-2010*.
Data includes public and Roman Catholic schools and school authorities.
Data excludes private schools and publicly funded hospital and provincial schools, 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.

** Excludes long-term occasional teachers and teachers and administrators on leave.