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MPP Oosterhoff: $75.4-million of Disrepair in Niagara West Schools

Dear MPP Oosterhoff,

Did you know there is $75.4-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Niagara West? 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 $15.9-billion repair backlog that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Niagara West Riding:

A K Wigg PS  $                  3,719,322
Beamsville District SS  $                  9,145,939
Caistor Central PS  $                  2,438,765
Central PS  $                  2,044,619
College Street PS  $                  2,969,089
E L Crossley SS  $                  7,386,470
Gainsborough PS  $                  1,778,535
Glynn A Green PS  $                  5,100,093
Grand Avenue PS  $                     167,629
Grimsby SS  $               12,938,474
Jacob Beam PS  $                     623,718
Lakeview PS  $                  1,018,134
Nelles PS  $                       89,610
Park PS  $                       38,644
Pelham Centre PS  $                  1,797,287
Senator Gibson PS  $                       46,350
Smith PS  $                     535,806
South Lincoln HS  $                  4,559,688
William E Brown PS  $                  2,278,359
Winger PS  $                  1,625,711
Blessed Trinity Catholic SS  $                     621,605
St Alexander Catholic E S  $                  3,006,055
St Ann Catholic E S (f)  $                     889,846
St Edward Catholic E S  $                  3,629,054
St Elizabeth Catholic E S  $                  1,003,688
St John Catholic E S  $                  2,623,738
St. Joseph Catholic E S (g)  $                       77,250
St. Mark Catholic E S  $                     247,200
ÉSC JeanVanier  $                       71,720
St. Mathew  $                       10,200
Ecole Elementaire Michaelle Jean  $                  2,963,336

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.