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MPP Kanapathi: $63.5-Million of Disrepair in Markham-Thornhill Schools

October 13, 2020

Dear MPP Kanapathi

Did you know there is $63.5-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Markham-Thornhill? 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 Markham-Thornhill Riding:

Sir Richard W. Scott CES  $                                                   71,994
St. Benedict CES  $                                              2,378,792
St. Francis Xavier CES  $                                              4,616,267
St. Robert CHS  $                                              8,955,988
St. Vincent de Paul CES  $                                              2,533,654
Aldergrove PS  $                                                 837,200
Armadale PS  $                                                 679,631
Bayview Fairways PS  $                                              1,563,588
Bayview Glen PS  $                                              2,228,704
Bill Crothers SS  $                                                 578,400
Boxwood PS  $                                                 449,526
Cedarwood PS  $                                                 173,000
Coppard Glen PS  $                                              1,879,898
Ellen Fairclough PS  $                                                 199,600
German Mills PS  $                                              2,029,066
Highgate PS  $                                              2,585,540
Johnsview Village PS  $                                                 684,956
Markham Gateway PS  $                                                 128,600
Middlefield CI  $                                              4,993,360
Milliken Mills PS  $                                              3,140,483
Parkland PS  $                                              2,309,100
Randall PS  $                                              1,814,916
Thornlea SS  $                                              4,316,572
Unionville HS  $                                              7,692,672
Wilclay PS  $                                              1,495,320
Willowbrook PS  $                                              1,107,362

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.