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MPP Karahalios: $93-M of Disrepair in Cambridge Schools

Dear MPP Karahalios,

Did you know there is $93-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Cambridge?

We know that you did not sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge during the 2018 election. However, as we head into another provincial election in June 2022, we trust that safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings will be a priority for all parties.

We are sharing 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 $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Cambridge Riding:

Glen Morris Central PS  $                                           1,526,720
St GeorgeGerman PS  $                                           1,948,960
Christ The King  $                                           1,622,806
Holy Spirit Catholic Elementary School  $                                              258,609
Monsignor Doyle Catholic SS  $                                           6,567,779
St Augustine Catholic S  $                                           2,587,556
St Francis Sep S, Cambridge  $                                           2,939,918
St Gregory Sep S  $                                           3,439,427
St Joseph Sep S  $                                           1,703,114
St Margaret S  $                                           1,828,410
St Michael Sep S  $                                           2,937,852
St Peter Sep S  $                                           3,559,718
St Vincent de Paul  $                                              928,151
St. Teresa of Calcutta, Cambridge  $                                           1,239,315
St. Vincent de Paul holding school  $                                           4,214,330
Avenue Road PS  $                                           1,332,335
Blair Road PS  $                                              741,043
Central PS  $                                           1,711,462
Chalmers Street PS  $                                           1,467,182
Clemens Mill PS  $                                              924,600
Coronation PS  $                                           1,568,374
Elgin Street PS  $                                              802,900
Galt CI  $                                           7,655,061
Glenview Park SS  $                                           8,390,026
Highland PS  $                                           1,348,823
Manchester PS  $                                           2,631,464
Parkway PS  $                                              520,740
Preston HS  $                                           7,905,549
Preston PS  $                                              901,640
Saginaw PS  $                                              374,040
Southwood SS  $                                           7,053,891
St. Andrew’s PS  $                                           1,088,566
Stewart Avenue PS  $                                           2,946,116
Tait Street PS  $                                           2,352,650
William G. Davis PS  $                                           2,690,649
ÉÉC SaintNoëlChabanel  Cambridge  $                                           1,318,561

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health. They impact student learning, attendance, and health, and must be a higher priority for our next provincial government than they have been with the current Ford government.

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. 

6-year old’s head injury from broken door shows need for school repairs

According to this CTV News report by Naomi Parness, a Grade 2 student received a concussion when she was pinned under a broken bathroom stall door at a Toronto school ranked by the province as in need of “critical” repairs.

Ontario’s Auditor-General says there is $1.7-billion of urgent and critical repairs in Ontario’s schools. However, Premier Wynne’s government has only allocated $500-million for Ontario school repairs this year, leaving $1.2-billion of critical and urgent repairs left undone in buildings where children spend 6 hours each day.

Premier Wynne: You and your government must act now to do the right thing – increase funding to Fix Our Schools.