Dear MPP Stevens,
Did you know there is $122.2-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of St. Catharines? 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 St. Catharines:
| ÉÉP L’Héritage | $ 2,274,325 |
| Applewood PS | $ 660,399 |
| Burleigh Hill PS | $ 1,205,598 |
| Carleton PS | $ 3,426,126 |
| Connaught PS | $ 2,532,686 |
| Dalewood PS | $ 5,004,884 |
| DSBN Academy | $ 565,202 |
| E I McCulley PS | $ 1,494,230 |
| Eden HS | $ 4,838,635 |
| Ferndale PS | $ 2,443,313 |
| Governor Simcoe SS | $ 834,615 |
| Gracefield PS | $ 1,142,104 |
| Grapeview PS | $ 294,977 |
| Jeanne Sauve PS | $ 4,178,532 |
| Laura Secord SS | $ 3,235,745 |
| Lifetime Learning Centre | $ 23,737 |
| Lincoln Centennial PS | $ 3,513,458 |
| Lockview PS | $ 966,307 |
| Parnall PS | $ 1,942,761 |
| Pine Grove PS | $ 180,540 |
| Port Weller PS | $ 1,372,891 |
| Prince of Wales PS | $ 1,629,781 |
| Prince Philip PS | $ 3,611,429 |
| Sir Winston Churchill SS | $ 3,914,750 |
| St Catharines Collegiate SS | $ 246,514 |
| William Hamilton Merritt PS | $ 3,077,740 |
| Woodland PS | $ 1,355,114 |
| Assumption Catholic E S | $ 1,010,492 |
| Canadian Martyrs Catholic E S | $ 5,945,753 |
| Denis Morris Catholic High School | $ 17,019,472 |
| Holy Cross | $ 15,637,053 |
| Mother Teresa Catholic E S | $ 134,663 |
| Our Lady of Fatima Catholic E S (s) | $ 969,638 |
| Saint Francis Catholic S S | $ 3,194,891 |
| St Alfred Catholic E S | $ 4,637,424 |
| St Ann Catholic E S (s) | $ 218,718 |
| St Christopher Catholic E S | $ 587,769 |
| St Denis Catholic E S | $ 3,825,672 |
| St James Catholic E S | $ 3,234,323 |
| St Nicholas Catholic E S | $ 3,398,640 |
| St Theresa Catholic E S | $ 2,315,753 |
| ÉÉC ImmaculéeConception | $ 3,011,870 |
| ÉÉC SainteMargueriteBourgeoys St.Catharines | $ 1,107,999 |
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.