Steele Avenue fared the worst regionally in Fraser Institute’s 2024 rankings for elementary colleges, whereas Codrington and Sister Catherine Donnelly acquired highest scores
Greater than half of Barrie’s elementary colleges are performing beneath provincial averages, with one college – Steele Avenue Public College – rating not removed from the underside within the Fraser Institute’s 2024 report playing cards.
Rating colleges throughout Ontario, the institute’s secondary college report card was launched earlier this month, following its elementary college report card printed earlier in 2024.
The report playing cards ranked 746 secondary colleges and three,021 elementary colleges throughout the province for the 2022-23 tutorial 12 months, based mostly on outcomes obtained by way of provincewide check outcomes.
Colleges are ranked out of 10 based mostly on these indicators, and solely 23 of the 49 colleges in Barrie ranked larger than the provincial common rating of six, in response to the report.
Out of the town’s 39 elementary colleges, solely 18 scored above the common mark, whereas the ten secondary colleges have been {split} with 5 above and 5 beneath, the report states.
Amongst elementary colleges, Codrington and Sister Catherine Donnelly got here out on prime regionally, with each attaining a 8.3 rating and rating 231st provincewide, with Hewitt’s Creek trailing shut behind with a 8.2 rating and inserting 262nd.
On the opposite finish of the rankings, Steele Avenue Public College scored a dismal 3.2 for two,788th place within the province, plummeting from its rating of 5.1 in 2022.
Andrew Hunter Elementary College didn’t fare significantly better, rating 2,707th provincially with a rating of three.6, sustaining its degree from its 2022 rating of three.4.
Right here’s how a sampling of Barrie’s elementary colleges fared within the report card:
Terry Fox Elementary College — 7.0 rating, ranked 888th
St. John Vianney Catholic College — 6.4 rating, ranked 1,three hundredth
Holly Meadows Elementary College — 5.8 rating, ranked 1,729th
Assikinack Public College — 4.8 rating, ranked 2,287th
W.C. Little Elementary College — 4.6 rating, ranked 2,365th
Past elementary colleges, half of Barrie’s 10 secondary colleges ranked beneath provincial averages.
Nouvelle-Alliance highschool got here out on prime regionally, scoring 7.2 and rating 187th provincially, holding regular with its 7.0 rating in 2022.
Barrie North, Eastview and Maple Ridge all scored 7.0 for 219th provincially.
St. Peter’s Catholic Secondary College positioned final regionally, scoring 4.6 and rating 590th provincially, with the college dropping from its steadfast rating of 5.4 year-after-year again to 2017.
Right here’s how the remainder of Barrie’s secondary colleges fared within the report card:
St. Joan of Arc — 6.4 rating, ranked 313th
Romeo Dallaire — 5.9 rating, ranked 404th
Innisdale — 5.7 rating, ranked 437th
Bear Creek — 5.4 rating, ranked 489th
St. Joseph’s — 4.8 rating, ranked 570th
The general score out of 10 is meant to reply this query: “In general, how is the school doing, academically, compared with others in the report card?”
The institute assigns every college a rating based mostly on their total tutorial efficiency.
The Fraser Institute notes the report card contains different indicators that present supplementary details about the college’s effectiveness regardless of not accounting for every college’s total score out of 10. These embrace college students in English as a second language, English language learner packages or who’ve sure recognized particular wants, in addition to indicators for college kids who haven’t written their EQAO exams.
A notice to people utilizing the latest report card as a measuring stick to every college’s success, the institute additionally states that readers ought to seek the advice of the whole desk of outcomes for every college of curiosity by contemplating a number of years of outcomes as opposed to a college’s most up-to-date rank.
The total report for 2024 will be discovered on-line by clicking right here.
— With information from Greg McGrath-Goudie and Luke Mandato
