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

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.