The Fraser Institute’s annual Report Card on Ontario Elementary Schools was released this morning, ranking Centretown’s schools among the lowest in the province.
Elgin Street Public School earned 6.2 out of 10 possible points, while St. Anthony Elementary School earned 4.6 and Centennial Public School was second lowest in Ottawa, with 1.9.
The report graded a total 2,742 English, French, Catholic, private and public schools across the province, though it did not include Centretown’s Cambridge Street Public School.
It looked at areas like special needs, average parental income and English as a second language at the school. It also included scores for reading, writing and math based on standardized testing results of from the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO).
Out of the total 2,742 schools graded, Elgin Street Public School ranked 1,285, St. Anthony Elementary School ranked 2,146, followed by Centennial Public School at 2,686.
“These detailed results provide parents with the information they need to ask the principal at their children’s school important questions about a school’s performance,” said Peter Cowley, the Fraser Institute’s director of school performance studies.
“The report card is the only easily accessible, objective tool that helps parents assess the performance of their child’s school,” he said.
The Fraser Institute is a Canadian research think tank, founded in 1974. They say their elementary school report card “assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.
The Report Card on Ontario Elementary Schools 2010 is available at www.compareschoolrankings.org or can be downloaded for free at www.fraserinstitute.org.