Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Sables-Spanish Rivers’s teenagers travel 19 km to the nearest high school
In or within 3 km of the town: 3 elementary schools, and no high school. One of them teaches in French, against 10% of schools in Ontario.
What stands out about Sables-Spanish Rivers’s schools
Several boards
The area’s schools come under 3 boards, Huron-Superior CDSB, Rainbow DSB and CSDC du Nouvel-Ontario. The boards ↓
Results, where published
0 of the 2 schools with results sit in the top two fifths in Ontario: St Mary Catholic School and S Geiger Public School. Results ↓
Small elementary schools
Elementary schools here average 118 students, against 365 in Ontario. Every school ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
High schools within reach of Sables-Spanish Rivers
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Within 15 km of the town there is no secondary school at all.
Schooling in English and French around Sables-Spanish Rivers
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.
CSDC du Nouvel-Ontario runs the French-language ones: École élémentaire Sainte-Anne.
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 Sables-Spanish Rivers’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 D: 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 | 67% | 76% |
| Grade 3 writing | 2 | 46% | 65% |
| Grade 3 math | 2 | 35% | 65% |
| Grade 6 reading | 1 | 82% | 88% |
| Grade 6 writing | 1 | 73% | 86% |
| Grade 6 math | 1 | 18% | 51% |
The widest gap is on Grade 6 math, where the area’s schools reach 18% against 51% in Ontario. Across 6 measures: 0 above the middle, 6 below. At 2 schools more of the measures rose than fell over three years; at 0, more fell.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| St Mary Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 74% · G3 writing 58% · G3 math 37% · G6 reading not reported · G6 writing not reported · G6 math not reported | Fourth fifth |
| S Geiger Public SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 60% · G3 writing 33% · G3 math 33% · G6 reading 82% · G6 writing 73% · G6 math 18% | 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 3 schools in and around Sables-Spanish Rivers are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
Points from the provincial lists.
Who runs Sables-Spanish Rivers’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
By the system they belong to: English public 1, English Catholic 1 and French-language 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
3 boards, school by school
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huron-Superior CDSBSt Mary | English Catholic | 1 | 135 |
| Rainbow DSBS Geiger | English public | 1 | 100 |
| CSDC du Nouvel-OntarioSainte-Anne | French Catholic | 1 | – |
Boards as Ontario’s list names them (its short forms: DSB, CDSB, CS).
How children get a place in Sables-Spanish Rivers
The neighbourhood school
Each school serves a defined area. A place elsewhere is possible when that school has room.
French-language schools
Eligibility comes from the parents: French as a first language, or French schooling in Canada; otherwise, the board’s admissions committee decides.
Catholic schools
A Catholic elementary school usually asks for a Catholic parent or a baptized child; a Catholic high school admits all.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 3 schools in and around Sables-Spanish Rivers
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling | 5,489 | 1 | 690 | 0 | 16 km |
| … | |||||
| Shuniah | 3,458 | 3 | 690 | 0 | 15 km |
| Glenview West | 3,431 | 31 | 15,980 | 3 | 0.6 km |
| Trillium Industrial Park | 3,420 | 51 | 25,620 | 5 | 1 km |
| Riverdale East | 3,416 | 17 | 10,905 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Sables-Spanish Rivers | 3,412 | 3 | 235 | 1 | 19 km |
| Merrickville | 3,411 | 9 | 2,240 | 1 | 12 km |
| North Kawartha | 3,355 | 2 | 240 | 0 | 36 km |
| Mill Courtland Woodside Park | 3,319 | 43 | 22,315 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Greeningdon | 3,296 | 44 | 21,695 | 1 | 1.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards | 2,505 | 2 | 215 | 0 | 20 km |
In 157 of the 190 others the count is higher. A French-language school is within reach in 114 of the 191.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Sables-Spanish Rivers
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
Among the neighbours, Espanola has 5, the most.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Bands, not ranks. A school with no reported result has no band; one with several averages its fifths.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
- Boards and systems. Public and Catholic boards are both publicly funded here, in English and in French; an independent school answers to no board.
- The year. Listed for 2024-25.
- The kinds of school. The levels follow each school’s published grades: elementary below Grade 7 or 9, secondary above, all-grade when it runs the whole way.
- Which schools count. A school counts when it sits inside Sables-Spanish Rivers or less than 3 km beyond its edge.
Questions about schools in Sables-Spanish Rivers
How many schools are there in Sables-Spanish Rivers?
The town holds 2 of them; 1 more are within 3 km of its outline.
Is there a French-language school in Sables-Spanish Rivers?
Yes, there are French-language schools: École élémentaire Sainte-Anne.
Which boards run the schools in Sables-Spanish Rivers?
By number of schools: Huron-Superior CDSB (1), Rainbow DSB (1) and CSDC du Nouvel-Ontario (1).
How do I get a place at a school in Sables-Spanish Rivers?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
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).