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MPP Natyshak: $169.6-M of Disrepair in Essex Schools

March 25, 2022

Dear MPP Natyshak,

Did you know there is $169.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Essex?

In 2018 MPP Natyshak signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

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. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, 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 Essex:

EEC Monseigneur Augustin Caron  $                                              1,875,732
EEC Pavillon des Jeunes  $                                              2,149,639
EEC SaintAmbroise  $                                              2,094,036
EEC SainteUrsule  $                                              1,511,160
Amherstburg Public School  $                                              6,928,597
Anderdon Central Public School  $                                              4,285,332
Belle River District High School  $                                           14,273,023
Belle River Public School  $                                              2,387,178
Colchester North Public School  $                                              3,862,484
Essex District High School  $                                              3,973,639
Essex Public School  $                                                 138,411
General Amherst District High School  $                                           20,314,652
Gosfield North Central Public School  $                                              3,816,983
Harrow Public School  $                                              4,329,603
Jack Miner Public School  $                                              6,912,587
Kingsville District High School  $                                           19,443,200
Kingsville Public School  $                                              7,497,397
LaSalle Public School  $                                              2,484,457
Malden Central Public School  $                                              1,807,334
Prince Andrew Public School  $                                              3,752,025
Sandwich Secondary School  $                                           10,290,001
Sandwich West Public School  $                                              6,108,105
Western Secondary School  $                                              7,412,564
Holy Cross Elementary School  $                                                 333,677
Holy Name Essex  $                                                   21,294
Sacred Heart Sep S  $                                              4,156,796
St Anne’s HS  $                                                   65,910
St Anthony  $                                                   50,308
St John de Brebeuf Sep S  $                                                 242,645
St John the Baptist Sep S  $                                              4,810,023
St Joseph Sep S  $                                              5,648,482
St Thomas of Villanova SS  $                                           11,452,803
St William Sep S  $                                              3,620,645
Stella Maris Sep S  $                                              1,456,593

School conditions matter. 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. 

MPP Glover: $52-M of Disrepair in Spadina-Fort York Schools

March 24, 2022

Dear MPP Glover,

Did you know there is $52-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Spadina-Fort York?

In 2018 MPP Glover signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

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. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, 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 Spadina-Fort York:

St Mary CS  $                        5,001,321
St Michael (Leased from City of Toronto)  $                        1,405,892
ALPHA Alt Jr School  $                        2,947,186
Charles G Fraser Jr PS  $                        8,234,956
Contact Alt School  $                        2,729,134
Downtown Alt School  $                           976,736
Givins/Shaw Jr PS  $                        5,909,091
Island PS/Natural Science School  $                        2,002,140
Market Lane Jr & Sr PS  $                        1,394,876
Ogden Jr PS  $                        3,541,203
Ryerson CS  $                     17,513,814
The Waterfront School  $                           325,498

School conditions matter. 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. 

MPP Andrew: $137.6-M of Disrepair in Toronto-St. Paul’s Schools

March 24, 2022

Dear MPP Andrew,

In 2018 MPP Andrew signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

Did you know there is $137.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s?

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. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, 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 Toronto-St. Paul’s:

D’Arcy McGee CS  $                       4,709,860
Holy Rosary CS  $                       2,848,465
St Alphonsus CS  $                       2,469,779
St BrunoSt. Raymond  $                       1,860,175
St Thomas Aquinas CS  $                       4,142,861
Brown Jr PS  $                       3,626,839
Cedarvale CS  $                       3,496,152
Cottingham Jr PS  $                       2,030,588
Davisville Jr PS  $                       9,656,651
Deer Park Jr & Sr PS  $                    11,774,599
Eglinton Jr PS  $                          235,405
Forest Hill Jr & Sr PS  $                    15,913,752
Hillcrest CS  $                       4,287,581
Humewood CS  $                       4,174,046
J R Wilcox CS  $                       5,185,465
North Toronto CI  $                          277,830
Northern SS  $                    38,992,135
Oriole Park Jr PS  $                       4,531,226
Vaughan Road Academy  $                    17,414,976

School conditions matter. 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. 

MPP Burch: $$152.9-M of Disrepair in Niagara Centre Schools

March 23, 2022

Dear MPP Burch,

Did you know there is $152.9-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Niagara Centre?

In 2018 MPP Burch signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

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. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, 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 Niagara Centre:

ÉÉP Champlain  $                          2,465,435
ÉÉP Nouvel Horizon  $                          1,344,883
ÉSP Confédération  $                       13,048,711
DeWitt Carter PS  $                          5,745,693
Eastdale SS  $                       14,034,692
Edith Cavell PS  $                             523,294
Fitch Street PS  $                          1,664,555
Glendale PS  $                          1,175,693
Gordon PS  $                             758,458
McKay PS  $                          4,143,085
Oakridge PS  $                          2,307,272
Oakwood PS  $                          2,551,334
Ontario PS  $                             443,364
Plymouth PS  $                          1,171,399
Port Colborne HS  $                       19,814,629
Prince of Wales PS  $                             583,495
Princess Elizabeth PS  $                          1,622,667
Quaker Road PS  $                               61,800
Richmond Street PS  $                          2,005,151
Ross PS  $                          1,232,845
Steele Street PS  $                          2,771,248
Thorold SS  $                             453,509
Welland Centennial SS  $                          2,665,207
Westdale PS  $                          2,175,381
Westmount PS  $                          1,082,612
Alexander Kuska K.S.G. Catholic E S  $                          1,977,600
Holy Name Catholic E S  $                          5,250,331
Lakeshore Catholic High School  $                       17,027,361
Monsignor Clancy Catholic E S  $                          8,551,935
Notre Dame College School  $                          3,964,618
St Andrew Catholic E S  $                          1,258,526
St Anthony Catholic E S  $                          3,319,080
St Augustine Catholic E S  $                          2,097,195
St Charles Catholic E S  $                          2,055,880
St Kevin Catholic E S  $                          5,718,795
St Mary Catholic E S (w)  $                          5,020,189
St Patrick Catholic E S (p)  $                             615,163
St Peter Catholic E S  $                          1,033,763
St. John Bosco Catholic E S  $                          2,825,189
St. Therese Catholic E S  $                          3,351,022
ÉÉC du SacréCœur  Welland  $                          1,056,974
ÉÉC SaintFrançoisd’Assise  $                               48,566
ÉÉC SaintJoseph  $                          1,915,153

School conditions matter. 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. 

MPP Harden: $224.5-M of Disrepair in Ottawa-Centre Schools

March 22, 2022

Dear MPP Harden,

Did you know there is $224.5-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Ottawa-Centre?

In 2018 MPP Harden signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

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. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, 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 Ottawa-Centre:

Corpus Christi CES  $                         2,703,785
Immaculata 912  $                       15,513,322
Notre Dame 912  $                       10,439,870
St Anthony CES  $                         4,021,882
St Augustine CES  $                         2,301,803
St Elizabeth CES  $                         3,110,332
St George CES  $                         7,373,043
St Nicholas Adult HS West  $                         2,959,886
St Pius X 912  $                         6,437,129
ÉÉC SaintFrançoisd’Assise  $                         1,640,193
Cambridge Street PS  $                         4,931,714
Carleton Heights PS  $                         3,658,935
Centennial PS  $                         8,495,918
Churchill AS  $                         1,185,304
Connaught PS  $                         1,293,478
D. Roy Kennedy  $                         6,558,310
Devonshire PS  $                         3,958,350
Elgin Street PS  $                         3,979,275
Elmdale PS  $                         4,651,321
First Avenue PS  $                         7,252,121
Fisher Park PS  $                       16,130,801
Glashan PS  $                         7,521,106
Glebe CI  $                       23,972,801
Hilson Avenue PS  $                            976,935
Hopewell Avenue PS  $                         6,383,464
Lady Evelyn AS  $                         4,685,453
Lisgar CI  $                         8,816,312
Mutchmor ES  $                         2,396,123
Richard Pfaff Secondary Alternate  $                         8,527,409
The Adult HS  $                       25,293,232
Urban Aboriginal Alternate Program  $                       13,814,154
W. E. Gowling PS  $                         3,671,388

School conditions matter. 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. 

MPP Tibollo: $60.7-M of Disrepair in Vaughan-Woodbridge Schools

March 22, 2022

Dear MPP Tibollo,

Did you know there is $60.7-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Vaughan-Woodbridge?

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 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 $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Vaughan-Woodbridge:

ÉÉP La Fontaine  $                        1,909,397
Father Bressani CHS  $                      11,050,001
Holy Cross CHS  $                      11,434,277
Immaculate Conception CES  $                        3,655,988
Our Lady of Fatima CES  $                        1,501,902
San Marco CES  $                        1,810,623
St. Agnes of Assisi CES  $                              93,187
St. Andrew CES  $                           400,224
St. Angela Merici CES  $                           195,094
St. Catherine of Siena CES  $                        1,600,610
St. Clare Catholic CES  $                        1,279,827
St. Clement CES  $                           185,040
St. Emily CES  $                              93,998
St. Francis of Assisi CES  $                        2,533,153
St. Gabriel the Archangel CES  $                        1,285,452
St. Gregory the Great CES  $                        2,798,087
St. Jean de Brebeuf CHS  $                           222,269
St. John Bosco CES  $                        2,901,473
St. Margaret Mary CES  $                        4,140,264
St. Padre Pio CES  $                              49,920
St. Peter CES  $                        1,558,302
St. Stephen CES  $                           103,428
St. Veronica CES  $                              92,000
Blue Willow PS  $                        1,060,200
Elder’s Mills PS  $                           423,649
Emily Carr SS  $                           774,595
Fossil Hill PS  $                           106,571
Lorna Jackson PS  $                           248,964
Pine Grove PS  $                        1,255,738
Vellore Woods PS  $                           852,673
Woodbridge College (Sec)  $                        4,652,400
Woodbridge PS  $                           453,600

School conditions matter. 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. 

MPP Fee: $46.6-M of Disrepair in Kitchener South-Hespeler Schools

March 22, 2022

Dear MPP Fee,

There is $46.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in the riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler.

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 wanted to share the following details of disrepair each school in this 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 Kitchener South-Hespeler:

Blessed Sacrament  $                   3,568,027
Monsignor Haller Sep S  $                   2,115,082
Our Lady of Fatima Sep S  $                   1,605,250
Our Lady of Grace Sep S  $                   2,569,780
St Aloysius Sep S  $                   3,443,506
St Elizabeth Sep S  $                   1,894,253
St Timothy Sep S  $                   1,864,746
St. Kateri Tekakwitha Sep S  $                   2,308,755
St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School  $                   1,316,985
Alpine PS  $                      368,772
Brigadoon PS  $                   1,118,018
Centennial PS (C)  $                   1,318,464
Country Hills PS  $                   1,037,516
Doon PS  $                    2,081,495
Glencairn PS  $                    1,021,427
Hespeler PS  $                       410,980
Hillcrest PS  $                       973,643
Howard Robertson PS  $                    2,291,336
Jacob Hespeler SS  $                    1,828,910
Laurentian PS  $                    3,472,084
Pioneer Park PS  $                       327,522
Rockway PS  $                    1,407,229
Silverheights PS  $                    1,424,328
Trillium PS  $                    1,204,277
W.T. Townshend PS  $                         49,960
Wilson Avenue PS  $                    1,751,050
Woodland Park PS  $                       961,092
ÉÉC CardinalLéger  $                    1,194,135
ÉSC PèreRenédeGalinée  $                    1,704,450

School conditions matter. 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. 

Make Schools a Priority in the Provincial Election

March 22, 2022

A provincial election is fast approaching in Ontario, and parties are gearing up. In the coming weeks, we will see a lot of announcements and media coverage, with each party trying to convince us that they are best positioned to govern our province for the coming four years.

As citizens with the power to vote, we must also gear up for the upcoming provincial election. We need to give serious thought to the issues that really matter to us and ensure that those issues are discussed during the election campaign; and that they are included in party platforms as priorities.

Fix Our Schools wants to see a provincial government committed to publicly funded schools and education. Specifically, we are seeking a provincial government that will commit to:

  1. Developing and implementing a provincial standard of good repair for school buildings, portables, and schoolyards that includes not only addressing the $16.8-billion repair backlog but also issues such as: indoor air quality and ventilation; classroom temperatures; water quality; accessibility; environmental efficiency and durability; cleanliness; and asbestos.
  2. Collecting data on all aspects of school infrastructure and comparing that data regularly to the standards in place to ensure these provincial standards are actually being met/exceeded.
  3. Providing adequate, stable provincial funding to ensure that the $16.8-billion repair backlog is eliminated in the coming 5-10 years; and to ensure that the provincial standards are met/exceeded for indoor air quality and ventilation; classroom temperatures; water quality; accessibility; environmental efficiency and durability; cleanliness; and asbestos.

At Fix Our Schools, we believe that:

  • School conditions matter. Taking care of the capital assets we call public schools makes good financial sense, and has also been shown to improve the health, learning, attendance and performance of the learners and workers who spend their days at school. 
  • You can influence the issues that get discussed and prioritized during the upcoming election campaign and that become priorities for the next provincial government.

Here are some actions you can take and questions/messages you can send in the coming months to make it easy for you to have an impact!

Ideas for Action

  • Find out who all your local candidates are by visiting the following links: Green Candidates; Liberal candidates; NDP candidates; PC Candidates
  • Contact all your local candidates via email or phone call to ask questions and let them know that public schools are a priority for you
  • Keep a list of questions for candidates near your front door so anyone in your household can easily ask questions when candidates are door-to-door campaigning
  • Attend local debates and submit questions/ask questions
  • Engage with Fix Our Schools on Twitter and Facebook to amplify our messages and make schools a priority issue

Questions to Ask/Messages to Send to All Candidates

  • Public schools matter to me. I believe that safe, healthy, well-maintained schools, portables and schoolyards are essential. And yet, successive provincial governments have allowed a $16.8-billion repair backlog to accumulate in Ontario’s schools. Our provincial government is responsible for providing adequate funding for schools and disrepair in Ontario’s schools has increased every single year, so I ask you:
  1. What will you do to ensure that every publicly-funded school, portable and schoolyard is safe, healthy, well-maintained and provides an environment conducive to learning and working?
  2. How will you ensure that a standard of good repair for Ontario’s public school infrastructure is developed and implemented? What do you think ought to be included in those standards and what data ought to be collected to ensure these standards are met?
  3. Current provincial funding has meant that disrepair has grown year over year in Ontario’s publicly funded schools and, therefore, has clearly been inadequate for over two decades. The Fix Our Schools campaign believes that an absolute minimum additional yearly investment in school infrastructure of $1.6-B/year is needed – ON TOP of current provincial funding. If elected, would you support this additional annual investment in school infrastructure?

You have the power to make a difference in the coming election. We often hear from people who are nervous about speaking with candidates about their concerns because they are not an “expert” in the subject. We want to assure you that you do not have to be an expert in a topic to bring it up as a concern or priority of yours!

Your local MPP candidates are looking for your vote so you have a lot of power in the coming weeks leading up to the provincial election. And your elected MPP works for you so they should actually be the ones that are nervous about providing you with all the answers you are seeking!

You really do have power to make change!  So in the weeks leading up to the provincial election, take the opportunity to use this power wisely!

MPP Gill: $30.9-M of Disrepair in Milton Schools

March 21, 2022

Dear MPP Gill,

Did you know there is $30.9-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Milton?

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 expect that safe, healthy, well-maintained school buildings will be a priority for all parties.

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 $16.8-billion repair backlog (as of June 2021) that plagues Ontario’s schools.

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Milton:

Bishop P.F. Reding CSS  $                    5,443,856.00
Guardian Angels CES  $                       351,196.00
Holy Rosary (M) CES  $                       571,598.00
Our Lady of Fatima CES  $                       115,260.00
St. Anthony of Padua CES  $                          41,820.00
St. Peter CES  $                       449,948.00
Brookville PS  $                    2,281,667.00
Bruce Trail PS  $                       349,062.00
Chris Hadfield PS  $                       396,588.00
E W Foster PS  $                    1,178,581.00
Hawthorne Village P.S.  $                       400,566.00
J M Denyes PS  $                    2,976,558.00
Kilbride PS  $                    2,329,680.00
Milton DHS  $                    6,966,857.00
P.L. Robertson PS  $                       172,028.00
Robert Baldwin PS  $                    2,027,024.00
Sam Sherratt PS  $                    1,759,484.00
W I Dick PS  $                    2,162,612.00
ÉÉC SaintNicolas  $                       830,879.00

School conditions matter. 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. 

MPP Lindo: $104.7-M of Disrepair in Kitchener Centre Schools

March 21, 2022

Dear MPP Lindo,

Did you know there is $104.7-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Kitchener Centre?

In 2018 MPP Lindo signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge to create a Standard of Good Repair for Ontario schools

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. However, as you know, the Ford government has not done any work towards fulfilling this commitment.

To that end, 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 Kitchener Centre:

Canadian Martyrs Sep S  $                        2,894,362
Saint John Paul II  $                             84,760
St Anne, Kitchener  $                        4,390,316
St Bernadette Sep S  $                        2,784,761
St Daniel Sep S  $                        2,899,734
St John Sep S  $                           393,943
St Paul Sep S  $                        3,705,460
St Teresa, Kitchener  $                        3,513,003
A R Kaufman PS  $                        1,200,287
Cameron Heights CI  $                     14,426,009
Courtland Avenue PS  $                        2,776,832
Crestview PS  $                        2,526,898
Eastwood CI  $                        3,919,574
Forest Heights CI  $                        7,328,102
Forest Hill PS  $                        2,117,486
Franklin PS  $                        2,246,590
Grand River CI  $                     10,402,018
J.F. Carmichael PS  $                        1,799,039
King Edward PS  $                        4,086,025
KitchenerWaterloo C & VS  $                        3,809,137
Lackner Woods PS  $                             10,000
Mackenzie King PS  $                        1,682,377
Margaret Avenue PS  $                        3,747,662
Prueter PS  $                        2,256,150
Queen Elizabeth PS  $                        1,039,648
Queensmount PS  $                        2,726,646
Rosemount  $                        1,803,989
Sheppard PS  $                        1,932,329
Smithson PS  $                        2,508,744
Southridge PS  $                        2,618,148
Stanley Park PS  $                        3,086,594
Suddaby PS  $                        2,205,351
Sunnyside PS  $                        1,788,392

School conditions matter. 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.