Photo: Boxcarphilly · CC BY 3.0Fewer Catholic schools around Grey Highlands: 0 of 5, against 34% in Ontario
On the tests, 0 of 4 schools land above the middle in Ontario, 2 under it. The 3 km around Grey Highlands counts 4 elementary schools and 1 secondary school, 2,120 students between them.
What stands out about Grey Highlands’s schools
Results on the rise
More of the results rose than fell over three years at 4 schools of the 4 with results, Beavercrest Community School, Osprey Central School and Grey Highlands Secondary School among them. Results ↓
Every figure here sets the area’s schools beside the rest of its province.
Who runs Grey Highlands’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
They belong to one system, every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How Grey Highlands’s schools do on Ontario’s tests
EQAO’s Grade 3, 6 and 9 assessments and the literacy test, 2024-25: each school against every school in Ontario.
Its School Grade is C: it compares these results with the other towns of the province.
The area’s schools by fifth of the province
Each school’s band is the average of its measures’ fifths. The mark shows an even fifth of the area’s schools.
| Measure | Schools | Middle here | Ontario |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 reading | 3 | 62% | 76% |
| Grade 3 writing | 3 | 56% | 65% |
| Grade 3 math | 3 | 61% | 65% |
| Grade 6 reading | 3 | 87% | 88% |
| Grade 6 writing | 3 | 80% | 86% |
| Grade 6 math | 3 | 40% | 51% |
| Grade 9 math | 1 | 43% | 55% |
| Literacy test (OSSLT), first try | 1 | 76% | 85% |
On Grade 9 math the area trails, 43% against 55% in Ontario. 0 measures above the provincial middle, 7 below, out of 8.
Every school’s results (4)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Beavercrest Community SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 81% · G3 writing 56% · G3 math 66% · G6 reading 89% · G6 writing 89% · G6 math 32% | Middle fifth |
| Osprey Central SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 62% · G3 writing 69% · G3 math 61% · G6 reading 87% · G6 writing 79% · G6 math 61% | Middle fifth |
| Grey Highlands Secondary SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | G9 math 43% · OSSLT 76% | Fourth fifth |
| Macphail Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 36% · G3 writing 27% · G3 math 17% · G6 reading 71% · G6 writing 80% · G6 math 40% | Bottom fifth |
Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information Finder 2024–25 (EQAO results; N/R where groups are too small). Open Government Licence – Ontario.
Where the 5 schools in and around Grey Highlands are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Grey Highlands
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in Ontario marked.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Ontario.
For schooling in French, families look further afield.
Section 23 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives French-speaking parents the right to French-language schooling for their children, through the French-language boards.
How children get a place in Grey Highlands
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives settles it: the board’s map ties every address to one school, and a seat anywhere else waits on spare room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 5 schools in and around Grey Highlands
High schools within reach of Grey Highlands
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Within 15 km there is one high school, Grey Highlands Secondary School (6.7 km).
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Highlands Secondary SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Bluewater DSB | English public | Fourth fifth | 725 | 6.7 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Ontario
Places of about the same size and their schools in or within 3 km, largest first.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central London | 19,363 | 56 | 23,955 | 5 | 0.3 km |
| … | |||||
| Uptown | 12,244 | 37 | 18,985 | 1 | 1.4 km |
| Etobicoke West Mall | 12,218 | 38 | 16,950 | 1 | 0.4 km |
| Humber Summit | 12,194 | 65 | 29,435 | 0 | 1.7 km |
| Rideau Lakes | 12,148 | 14 | 3,335 | 0 | 10 km |
| Grey Highlands | 12,148 | 5 | 2,120 | 0 | 6.8 km |
| Milliken | 12,138 | 54 | 26,405 | 1 | 1.3 km |
| Chapman Mills | 12,075 | 42 | 24,420 | 12 | 1.1 km |
| Georgian Bluffs | 12,061 | 13 | 6,200 | 2 | 6.4 km |
| Valley Creek | 11,986 | 22 | 14,710 | 0 | 2 km |
| … | |||||
| Wainfleet | 7,329 | 12 | 3,240 | 2 | 12 km |
More schools are within reach in 359 of the 382 other towns. Schooling in French is on hand in 285 of the 383.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Grey Highlands
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Highlands | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 km |
| Dundalk 18 km | 7 | 0 | 1 | 12 km |
Dundalk has the most schools nearby, 7.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Boards and systems. Each board covers a territory in one language and one system, public or Catholic; boards of different systems overlap.
- The year. As the province lists them in 2024-25.
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Fifths are worked out among every Ontario school with a result on that measure, then averaged per school.
- The kinds of school. Elementary schools run from kindergarten to Grade 6 or 8, secondary ones to Grade 12; some cover every grade, and alternative, adult and online schools are listed apart.
- Which schools count. Counted: Grey Highlands’s own schools and any within 3 km of its edge.
Questions about schools in Grey Highlands
How do I get a place at a school in Grey Highlands?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
How many schools are there in Grey Highlands?
Every one of them, 5, is inside the town.
Is there a French-language school in Grey Highlands?
None within 3 km of Grey Highlands. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
Sources: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information Finder 2024–25 and school contact list (Open Government Licence – Ontario) · map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).