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MPP Hunter: $230.4-M of Disrepair in Scarborough-Guildwood Schools

January 14, 2021

Dear MPP Hunter

Did you know there is $230.4-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Scarborough-Guildwood? We wanted to share the following details of disrepair in 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 $16.3-billion repair backlog (as of November 2019) that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Scarborough-Guildwood Riding:

St Barbara C S  $                    2,600,823
St Edmund Campion CS  $                    1,922,971
St John Paul II CSS  $                    5,882,836
St Martin De Porres CS  $                    2,537,515
St Richard CS  $                    2,661,894
St Rose of Lima CS  $                    4,855,881
St Thomas More CS  $                    1,673,465
St Ursula CS  $                    1,649,385
Bellmere Jr PS  $                    6,091,109
Bendale Jr PS  $                    3,464,321
Cedar Drive Jr PS  $                    8,049,962
Cedarbrae CI  $                  17,737,551
Cedarbrook PS  $                    6,954,838
Churchill Heights PS  $                    4,957,260
Cornell Jr PS  $                    4,164,064
Eastview PS  $                    5,293,083
Elizabeth Simcoe Jr PS  $                    5,321,503
Galloway Road PS  $                    3,438,431
George B Little PS  $                    5,877,240
George P Mackie Jr PS  $                    2,290,274
Golf Road Jr PS  $                    3,881,604
Guildwood Jr PS  $                    3,471,864
Heather Heights Jr PS  $                    3,848,032
Henry Hudson Sr PS  $                    6,472,918
Highcastle PS  $                    3,709,746
Jack Miner Sr PS  $                    4,330,902
Maplewood HS  $                  11,241,612
Military Trail PS  $                    3,266,346
North Bendale Jr PS  $                    3,306,426
Poplar Road Jr PS  $                    4,397,785
Scarborough Village PS  $                    2,009,005
Sir Wilfrid Laurier CI  $                  17,618,392
St Margaret’s PS  $                    4,104,470
Tecumseh Sr PS  $                    5,169,233
Tredway Woodsworth PS  $                    5,996,500
West Hill CI  $                  19,475,008
West Hill PS  $                       737,138
Willow Park Jr PS  $                    5,061,935
Woburn CI  $                  19,207,903
Woburn Jr PS  $                    5,705,594

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 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.

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. 

How the new $1.1-billion in provincial funding for school repairs breaks down

June 28, 2016

On June 27, 2016, Education Minister Mitzie Hunter announced an investment of $1.1-billion to repair schools across the province.  Here is a detailed breakdown of how this investment will flow to school boards.

  • An increase of $500-million to school boards to use for school repairs this summer; $460-million of the $500-million total will be allocated via School Condition Improvement (SCI) funding and $40-million via School Renewal Allocation (SRA) funding.* When added to the existing funding commitment of $500-million in SCI funding and $320-million in SRA funding, the total funding for school repairs this 2015/16 year will total $1.3-billion.
  • An increase of $575-million to school boards to use for school repairs in 2016/17; $535-million of which will be allocated via SCI funding and $40-million via SRA funding. When added to the existing $500-million in SCI funding and $320-million in SRA funding, the total funding for school boards to use for school repairs next year in 2016/17 will be the $1.4-billion annual funding that Ontario’s Auditor-General said is needed to keep Ontario’s publicly funded schools in a state of good repair.

Fix Our Schools is pleased that this new level of annual funding for school repairs follows the Auditor General’s 2015 recommendation of $1.4-billion per year, an amount that represents the industry standard of investing 2.5% of a buildings replacement value in annual maintenance in order to keep that asset in a state of good repair. School buildings are public assets that the government has an obligation to keep well-maintained.

Fix Our Schools is also pleased that this money is being allocated to school boards based on their renewal needs and that the provincial government has committed to publicly posting detailed information regarding the condition and renewal needs of each of Ontario’s 4,900 public schools.

However, a $15-billion repair backlog has been allowed to accumulate in Ontario’s publicly funded schools over the past 20 years that is not going away anytime soon. Therefore, Fix Our Schools remains committed to working with all MPPs and School Boards to ensure that:

  • The new level of investment of $1.4-billion/year starts to decrease the $15-billion repair backlog that currently exists in Ontario’s publicly funded schools.
  • The issue of disrepair in Ontario’s schools is a major election issue in the next provincial election in 2018; and continues to be an important focus of our provincial government.

* Click here for more details on School Condition Improvement (SCI) funding and School Renewal Allocation (SRA) funding.