Photo: Rick Harris from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Trent Lakes’s teenagers travel 23 km to the nearest high school
The town’s own schools, within 3 km, are 2 elementary schools. 1 of its 2 schools with results sit in the top two fifths in Ontario.
High schools within reach of Trent Lakes
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
No secondary school is within 15 km of the town.
How Trent Lakes’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 | 2 | 64% | 76% |
| Grade 3 writing | 2 | 46% | 65% |
| Grade 3 math | 2 | 49% | 65% |
| Grade 6 reading | 2 | 77% | 88% |
| Grade 6 writing | 2 | 84% | 86% |
| Grade 6 math | 2 | 29% | 51% |
The widest gap is on Grade 6 math, where the area’s schools reach 29% against 51% in Ontario. The area is ahead on 0 of 6 measures and behind on 5. At 1 schools more of the measures rose than fell over three years; at 1, more fell.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Bobcaygeon Public SchoolElementary · Grades JK–8 | G3 reading 84% · G3 writing 62% · G3 math 73% · G6 reading 98% · G6 writing 98% · G6 math 52% | Second fifth |
| Buckhorn Public SchoolElementary · Grades JK–6 | G3 reading 43% · G3 writing 29% · G3 math 24% · G6 reading 56% · G6 writing 69% · G6 math 6% | 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 2 schools in and around Trent Lakes 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 Trent Lakes
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.
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 Trent Lakes’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
They all share one system, every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
The 2 boards that run schools here
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
The biggest of the 2 is Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB: 1 schools.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kawartha Pine Ridge DSBBuckhorn | English public | 1 | 175 |
| Trillium Lakelands DSBBobcaygeon | English public | 1 | 470 |
Boards as Ontario’s list names them (its short forms: DSB, CDSB, CS).
How children get a place in Trent Lakes
The neighbourhood school
Each school serves a defined area. A place elsewhere is possible when that school has room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Trent Lakes
Towns its size in Ontario
Towns of a similar population, with their schools in or within 3 km; described, not ranked.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississauga Valleys | 11,799 | 58 | 26,050 | 1 | 1.3 km |
| … | |||||
| N-Section (bramalea) | 7,513 | 58 | 29,315 | 2 | 0.9 km |
| Blake-Jones | 7,494 | 82 | 34,365 | 6 | 0.5 km |
| Colborne | 7,447 | 17 | 8,170 | 0 | 2.9 km |
| Teston | 7,437 | 24 | 12,005 | 2 | 1.1 km |
| Trent Lakes | 7,357 | 2 | 645 | 0 | 23 km |
| Wainfleet | 7,329 | 12 | 3,240 | 2 | 12 km |
| Vanier South | 7,259 | 32 | 13,065 | 12 | 1 km |
| Brown's Corners | 7,228 | 55 | 27,080 | 1 | 0.5 km |
| Concord | 7,225 | 34 | 17,575 | 0 | 1.1 km |
| … | |||||
| Montague | 4,414 | 10 | 2,525 | 1 | 7 km |
Set against 339 others, 327 have more schools in reach. Schooling in French is on hand in 238 of the 340.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Trent Lakes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trent Lakes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23 km |
| Curve Lake First Nation 35 14 km | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 km |
It has more schools than any of its 1 neighbours.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside Trent Lakes or within 3 km of it are here.
- 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.
- Bands, not ranks. Ontario’s results are whole percentages with small groups left out, so the page gives fifths, not ranks.
- What isn’t here. Ontario’s private schools aren’t in the open list; no province publishes inspection grades.
- The year. The province’s 2024-25 list.
- Boards and systems. Public and Catholic boards are both publicly funded here, in English and in French; an independent school answers to no board.
Questions about schools in Trent Lakes
Is there a French-language school in Trent Lakes?
None within 3 km of Trent Lakes. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
How many schools are there in Trent Lakes?
The town holds 1 of them; 1 more are within 3 km of its outline.
How do I get a place at a school in Trent Lakes?
The board’s school locator gives the designated school; registration is with the board or the school.
Which boards run the schools in Trent Lakes?
By number of schools: Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB (1) and Trillium Lakelands DSB (1).
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).