Photo: R Orville Lyttle · CC BY-SA 2.0Prescott’s 3 schools with results spread wide in Ontario, 1 in the top two fifths and 1 in the bottom two
Best placed: Wellington Elementary Public School. Taken together, Prescott and its 3 km edge hold 3 elementary schools and 1 secondary school for 1,115 students.
How Prescott’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 B−: 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 | 2 | 75% | 76% |
| Grade 3 writing | 2 | 68% | 65% |
| Grade 3 math | 2 | 75% | 65% |
| Grade 6 reading | 2 | 88% | 88% |
| Grade 6 writing | 2 | 87% | 86% |
| Grade 6 math | 2 | 47% | 51% |
| Grade 9 math | 1 | 35% | 55% |
| Literacy test (OSSLT), first try | 1 | 81% | 85% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is Grade 9 math: 35% here, against 55% in Ontario. 2 measures above the provincial middle, 3 below, out of 8. At 3 schools more of the measures rose than fell over three years; at 0, more fell.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Wellington Elementary Public SchoolElementary · Grades JK–6 | G3 reading 81% · G3 writing 69% · G3 math 81% · G6 reading 89% · G6 writing 93% · G6 math 54% | Second fifth |
| St. Mark Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 69% · G3 writing 67% · G3 math 69% · G6 reading 87% · G6 writing 80% · G6 math 40% | Middle fifth |
| South Grenville District High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | G9 math 35% · OSSLT 81% | 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 4 schools in and around Prescott are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Prescott
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Ontario.
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.
Who runs Prescott’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Grouped by system: English public 3 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
The 2 boards that run schools here
The boards and their schools here.
Of 2 boards, the largest here is Upper Canada DSB, with 3.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Canada DSBSouth Grenville District, Wellington Elementary, South Grenville Intermediate | English public | 3 | 765 |
| CDSB of Eastern OntarioSt. Mark | English Catholic | 1 | 350 |
Boards as Ontario’s list names them (its short forms: DSB, CDSB, CS).
How children get a place in Prescott
The neighbourhood school
Boards set boundaries for each school; living inside one guarantees a place there, and moving across one usually means a request.
Catholic schools
Ontario’s Catholic boards are publicly funded. Their elementary schools generally ask that a parent or the child be Catholic; their high schools are open to all students.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 4 schools in and around Prescott
High schools within reach of Prescott
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Families have one high school within 15 km: South Grenville District High School, 0.9 km off.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Grenville District High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Upper Canada DSB | English public | Bottom fifth | 370 | 0.9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parkhill | 6,864 | 6 | 900 | 0 | 1.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Montague | 4,414 | 10 | 2,525 | 1 | 7 km |
| Geraldton | 4,398 | 11 | 575 | 4 | 0.7 km |
| Highlands East | 4,372 | 2 | 50 | 0 | 21 km |
| Deep River | 4,353 | 4 | 1,015 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Prescott | 4,342 | 4 | 1,115 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Bancroft | 4,331 | 5 | 1,205 | 0 | 3.8 km |
| Eganville | 4,326 | 5 | 865 | 0 | 10 km |
| Bartonville | 4,311 | 35 | 16,605 | 4 | 1.1 km |
| Bruleville | 4,310 | 44 | 19,670 | 2 | 2.1 km |
| … | |||||
| Lambeth | 2,609 | 3 | 1,205 | 1 | 4.3 km |
Of the 261 others, 211 count more schools. 162 of 262 have a school teaching in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Prescott
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prescott | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0.9 km |
| Augusta 6.5 km | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6.6 km |
| Cardinal 14 km | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10 km |
| Brockville 19 km | 15 | 3 | 8 | 0.3 km |
The neighbour with most schools is Brockville (15).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The year. As the province lists them in 2024-25.
- Boards and systems. A public school belongs to a board of one language; in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan a board is also public or Catholic. An independent school runs itself.
- Bands, not ranks. Fifths are worked out among every Ontario school with a result on that measure, then averaged per school.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
- Which schools count. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside Prescott or within 3 km of it are here.
- The kinds of school. Kindergarten to Grade 8 is elementary, Grade 9 to 12 secondary, though the split varies by province and board.
Questions about schools in Prescott
How do I get a place at a school in Prescott?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
Which boards run the schools in Prescott?
By number of schools: Upper Canada DSB (3) and CDSB of Eastern Ontario (1).
How many schools are there in Prescott?
Every one of them, 4, is inside the town.
Is there a French-language school in Prescott?
There is none in or near Prescott (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
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).