Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Shuniah’s teenagers travel 15 km to the nearest high school
In or within 3 km of the town: 3 elementary schools, and no high school. 2 of the 3 with results sit in the top fifth in Ontario.
What stands out about Shuniah’s schools
The strongest results
Top of the area: Claude E Garton Public School (elementary), its results in the top fifth in Ontario. Results ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
High schools within reach of Shuniah
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Within 15 km of the town there is no secondary school at all.
How Shuniah’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 A+: 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 | 93% | 76% |
| Grade 3 writing | 3 | 88% | 65% |
| Grade 3 math | 3 | 80% | 65% |
| Grade 6 reading | 2 | 99% | 88% |
| Grade 6 writing | 2 | 93% | 86% |
| Grade 6 math | 2 | 81% | 51% |
The widest gap is on Grade 6 math, where the area’s schools reach 81% against 51% in Ontario. Above the middle on 6, below on 0: that is the 6 measures. At 2 schools more of the measures rose than fell over three years; at 1, more fell.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Claude E Garton Public SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 96% · G3 writing 88% · G3 math 94% · G6 reading 98% · G6 writing 98% · G6 math 80% | Top fifth |
| McKenzie Public SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 92% · G3 writing 92% · G3 math 75% · G6 reading not reported · G6 writing not reported · G6 math not reported | Top fifth |
| St Paul Catholic Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades JK–6 | G3 reading 93% · G3 writing 73% · G3 math 80% · G6 reading 100% · G6 writing 88% · G6 math 81% | Second 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 Shuniah are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Shuniah
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Ontario.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Ontario.
Not one teaches in French.
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 Shuniah’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
System by system: English public 2 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
2 boards, school by school
The boards and their schools here.
The biggest of the 2 is Lakehead DSB: 2 schools.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakehead DSBClaude E Garton, McKenzie | English public | 2 | 550 |
| Thunder Bay CDSBSt Paul Catholic | English Catholic | 1 | 140 |
Boards as Ontario’s list names them (its short forms: DSB, CDSB, CS).
How children get a place in Shuniah
The neighbourhood school
A home address sets the designated school in each board’s attendance area. Registration is with the board; a school outside the area admits only where there is space.
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 Shuniah
Towns its size in Ontario
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling | 5,489 | 1 | 690 | 0 | 16 km |
| … | |||||
| Horton | 3,550 | 8 | 1,905 | 0 | 7.9 km |
| Edwards - Carlsbad Springs | 3,536 | 32 | 12,475 | 12 | 12 km |
| Hampton Heights | 3,498 | 41 | 19,085 | 4 | 0.4 km |
| Fairfield | 3,497 | 31 | 16,650 | 2 | 1.4 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 |
| … | |||||
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards | 2,505 | 2 | 215 | 0 | 20 km |
More schools are within reach in 157 of the 190 other towns. A school in French is nearby in 114 towns of 191.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Each result is placed in a fifth of Ontario’s schools on the same measure; a school’s band averages its fifths. EQAO doesn’t report small groups, so no school is ranked to the place.
- Boards and systems. Every public school has a board: English or French, and in this province public or Catholic too. Independent schools have none.
- The year. The open list of 2024-25.
- The kinds of school. Schools are grouped by what they teach: elementary, secondary, every grade, and the alternative, adult and online programs.
- Which schools count. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside Shuniah or within 3 km of it are here.
Questions about schools in Shuniah
Is there a French-language school in Shuniah?
Not in or within 3 km of Shuniah; the French-language board can name the nearest.
How many schools are there in Shuniah?
Inside the town there are 1; another 2 sit within 3 km.
Which boards run the schools in Shuniah?
Lakehead DSB (2) and Thunder Bay CDSB (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
How do I get a place at a school in Shuniah?
The board’s school locator gives the designated school; registration is with the board or the school.
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).