Two elementary colleges within the Area of Waterloo are a number of the greatest in Ontario, in line with a brand new report from the Fraser Institute analysis group.
The report, launched on Thursday, provides elementary colleges a rating out of 10 primarily based on the common outcomes of their Grade 3 and Grade 6 provincial testing for studying, writing and math. The college rankings are supposed to assist analyze and evaluate the tutorial efficiency of every college.
The Worldwide Faculty of Cambridge and New Dundee Public Faculty each obtained a ten this final college 12 months. There have been 20 different colleges in Ontario that additionally scored 10.
“There’s all sorts of reasons why you would want to send your child to a school, not the least of which being if they’re very close to the home,” Peter Cowley, a senior researcher on the Fraser Institute, mentioned. “But really, I think the place to start would be to say: ‘Let’s look at how this individual school is doing.’”
Two of the highest rating colleges in Waterloo Area are personal establishments. The Worldwide Faculty of Cambridge and the Ontario Muslim Academy in Cambridge, which received a rating of 9.3.
Just one Catholic college is within the prime 10, St. Agnes Catholic Elementary Faculty in Waterloo with a rating of 8.1.
On the opposite finish of the rankings, the establishments with the bottom scores within the area are a mixture of Catholic and public colleges.
The Fraser Institute notes the rankings shouldn’t be the one data mother and father or guardians use when selecting a faculty, as they solely replicate educational efficiency and never different packages supplied at a faculty.
Though there are a variety of things that may affect check scores, mentioned Cowley, decrease ranked colleges can use the report card to see if there’s a greater ranked college regionally that they might be taught from.
“That is likely to be one thing the one college by no means even considered. So if you happen to can go and discover your folks down the highway, perhaps you may give you one thing that may actually be helpful,” Cowley suggested.
Elementary colleges that don’t provide Grade 6 weren’t included within the rankings, as have been some single-track French immersion colleges and personal colleges, since they aren’t required to do Grade 3 testing.
High 10 colleges in Waterloo Area
Worldwide Faculty of Cambridge: Cambridge – 10
New Dundee Public Faculty: New Dundee – 10
Abraham Erb Public Faculty: Waterloo – 9.3
Ontario Muslim Academy: Cambridge – 9.3
Laurelwood Public Faculty: Waterloo – 9.1
Vista Hills Public Faculty: Waterloo – 9.1
N. A. MacEachern Public Faculty: Waterloo – 8.8
Millen Woods Public Faculty: Waterloo – 8.6
St. Agnes Catholic Elementary Faculty: Waterloo – 8.1
Williamsburg Public Faculty: Kitchener – 8.1
Backside 10 colleges in Waterloo Area
St. Peter Catholic Elementary Faculty: Cambridge – 1.5
Cedarbrae Public Faculty: Waterloo – 1.8
Rockway Public Faculty: Kitchener – 2.6
St. Bernadette Catholic Elementary Faculty: Kitchener – 2.7
Hillside Public Faculty (A. R. Kaufman): Kitchener – 3.1
Trillium Public Faculty: Kitchener – 3.2
Prueter Public Faculty: Kitchener – 3.5
Manchester Public Faculty: Cambridge – 3.8
Queen Elizabeth Public Faculty: Kitchener – 3.8
St. John’s Catholic Elementary Faculty: Kitchener – 3.8
