Dear Education Minister Thompson,
Did you know there is $113.8-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Huron-Bruce? We commend you for signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election, and making the personal commitment to ensure all Ontario’s schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working.
We wanted to share the following details of disrepair each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $15.9-billion repair backlog that plagues Ontario’s schools.
Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Huron-Bruce Riding:
| Brookside Public School | $3,893,646 |
| Central Huron Secondary School | $15,131,082 |
| Clinton Public School | $718,933 |
| Exeter Elementary School | $1,789,462 |
| FE Madill Secondary School | $10,360,340 |
| Goderich District Collegiate Institute | $7,639,913 |
| Goderich Public School | $1,647,917 |
| Hullett Central Public School | $2,677,729 |
| North Woods Elementary School | $1,063,781 |
| Seaforth Public School | $3,709,306 |
| South Huron District High School | $9,909,928 |
| Chesley District Community School (Elem) | $6,026,540 |
| Elgin Market PS | $348,312 |
| G C Huston P S | $4,303,698 |
| Hillcrest Central S | $1,051,362 |
| Huron Heights PS | $197,760 |
| Kincardine DSS | $4,155,259 |
| Kincardine TownshipTiverton PS | $2,151,363 |
| Lucknow Central PS | $426,990 |
| MildmayCarrick Central S | $2,018,849 |
| Northport E S | $1,665,985 |
| Paisley Central School | $1,959,798 |
| Port ElginSaugeen Central S | $4,187,997 |
| Ripley Huron Community School | $551,517 |
| Saugeen DSS | $16,534,268 |
| St. David Catholic School | $618,178 |
| Ecole ImmaculeeConception | $994,431 |
| Mary Immaculate Community S | $273,160 |
| Sacred Heart HS | $1,529,975 |
| Sacred Heart S | $827,874 |
| Sacred Heart Sep S | $385,642 |
| St Anthony’s Sep S | $858,546 |
| St Joseph’s S | $684,721 |
| St. Teresa of Calcutta | $642,096 |
| Precious Blood Sep S | $236,204 |
| Sacred Heart Sep S | $399,953 |
| St Anne’s Catholic S | $458,925 |
| St Boniface Sep S | $634,597 |
| St James Sep S | $361,082 |
| St Marys Sep S | $759,893 |
School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health.
We ask that you and your government please prioritize schools as critical infrastructure and take the steps necessary to ensure that the $15.9-billion of disrepair in all of Ontario’s publicly funded schools is eliminated and that schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. We look forward to hearing back from you with details on your plan to Fix Ontario’s Schools, especially given that you signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the election.
PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors.