Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Strong’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Ontario, 3 of the 3 with results
Its elementary schools are small, 210 students on average, against 365 in Ontario. Counting a 3 km margin, Strong has 2 elementary schools and 1 secondary school, for 990 students.
How Strong’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 | 40% | 76% |
| Grade 3 writing | 2 | 25% | 65% |
| Grade 3 math | 2 | 31% | 65% |
| Grade 6 reading | 2 | 85% | 88% |
| Grade 6 writing | 2 | 63% | 86% |
| Grade 6 math | 2 | 20% | 51% |
| Grade 9 math | 1 | 30% | 55% |
| Literacy test (OSSLT), first try | 1 | 64% | 85% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is Grade 3 writing: 25% here, against 65% in Ontario. Of 8 measures, 0 sit above the province’s middle and 8 below. The three-year changes lean upward at 0 schools and downward at 1.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Sundridge Centennial Public SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 46% · G3 writing 32% · G3 math 33% · G6 reading 85% · G6 writing 62% · G6 math 19% | Bottom fifth |
| South River Public SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 33% · G3 writing 17% · G3 math 28% · G6 reading 84% · G6 writing 63% · G6 math 21% | Bottom fifth |
| Almaguin Highlands Secondary SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | G9 math 30% · OSSLT 64% | Bottom fifth |
Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information Finder 2024–25 (EQAO results; N/R where groups are too small). Open Government Licence – Ontario.
The 3 schools in and around Strong
Where the 3 schools in and around Strong 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 Strong
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Ontario.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Ontario.
All teach in the province’s majority language; none 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 Strong’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
A single system: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Strong
The neighbourhood school
Children go to the board’s designated school for their address, unless another school agrees to take them.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
High schools within reach of Strong
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Families have one high school within 15 km: Almaguin Highlands Secondary School, 12 km off.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almaguin Highlands Secondary SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Near North DSB | English public | Bottom fifth | 570 | 12 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Schools in the towns around Strong
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 km |
| Sundridge 5.5 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7.8 km |
| South River 13 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Burk's Falls 13 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 km |
| Armour 15 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 km |
| Magnetawan 19 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 km |
It outnumbers its 5 neighbours on schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- 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. As the province lists them in 2024-25.
- The kinds of school. Grades shown are the published range, from junior kindergarten (JK) upward.
- Which schools count. Schools inside Strong and those within 3 km of its outline: a family nearby would weigh them all.
Questions about schools in Strong
Is there a French-language school in Strong?
Not near Strong: within 3 km there is none, and the French-language board points to the closest.
How many schools are there in Strong?
0 in the town, 3 just beyond it, within 3 km.
How do I get a place at a school in Strong?
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).