Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education AVRCE

Berwick, Nova Scotia · Public · English

2026-2027 calendar Board website ↗

Student success

How Annapolis Valley students are doing: the province's Grade 10 examinations, and the regional centre's own 2025-26 report against its System Improvement Plan targets

Read Report to the Community 2026 ↗

English 10 examination, at or above expectation

Nova Scotia Examination in English 10, share of students at or above the examination expectation, from the province's PLANS results; 93% of students in the course wrote it in 2023-24

Mathematics 10 examination, at or above expectation

Nova Scotia Examination in Mathematics 10, measurement, algebra and number, relations and functions and financial mathematics; 97% of students in the course wrote it in 2023-24

Reading, meeting grade expectations

Share of students meeting reading expectations on their report card, Term 3 of 2025-26; the chart shows all three terms

Writing and English language arts

Grade 1 to 6 writing and grade 7 and 8 English language arts, share meeting expectations, Term 3 of 2025-26; the regional target is 65% for writing

Math

Grade 1 to 8 students meeting math expectations, Term 3 of 2025-26 (target 80%), and the high school math measures for 2025-26

High school and well-being

Grade 9 to 12 achievement and the student survey and attendance measures for 2025-26, against the System Improvement Plan targets

Click any figure to open its chart with every year.

What the report says

The figures as charts, every year labelled, and the report's findings, in one PDF. Show Hide

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Figures and findings read from Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education's 2026 Annual Report to the Community (PDF, avrce.ca) , published 2026-09.

The report's own pages

The results pages as the district published them. Open a page to read it at full size.

P to 8 literacy - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — P to 8 literacy

P to 8 math - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — P to 8 math

Grades 9 to 12 - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — Grades 9 to 12

Student well-being - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — Student well-being

AVRCE in numbers - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — AVRCE in numbers

Goals, targets and criteria for success - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — Goals, targets and criteria for success

Foundational practices - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — Foundational practices

School buses and catchment areas

Transportation, avrce.ca ↗

Who qualifies: Elementary and Pre-Primary beyond 1.6 km of the catchment school; middle and high school beyond 2.4 km; nobody within 1 km, under the provincial policy
Bus information: BusPlanner Parent Portal from August 15: route, stop and times, plus late-bus texts or emails; ask AVRCE Transportation to activate an account
Courtesy riders: If there is room on an existing bus; routes and stops are not changed
Who drives: AVRCE buses in Annapolis County, West Hants and western Kings; a contracted carrier in central and eastern Kings
Catchments and transfers: Catchment search and eligibility check by address on BusPlanner; transfers to another school by request through the local school, with families arranging transport
Contact: AVRCE Transportation, 902-538-4641 or 1-800-850-3887, transportation@avrce.ca

From the district

Student transfer request form and guidelines (PDF) ↗

Catchment maps

The region's school catchment boundaries, drawn from its BusPlanner school information map: elementary schools, then middle and high schools.

Elementary school catchments - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — Elementary school catchments

Middle and high school catchments - Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education — Middle and high school catchments

Regional leadership and staff

Regional leadership

Nova Scotia's English regional centres have had no elected board since 2018; the Regional Executive Director of Education reports to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, and each school has a School Advisory Council. Regional office: 121 Orchard Street, Berwick, 902-538-4600.

Dave Jones
Regional Executive Director of Education · 902-538-4600
Pat Murphy
Director of Programs and Services · 902-538-4600 ext. 7801
Paul Lincoln
Director of Operations · 902-538-4600 ext. 7501
Sarah Kenny
Director of Finance · 902-538-4600 ext. 7601
Steve Snell
Director of Human Resources · 902-538-4600 ext. 7701
Matthew Butler and Maria Carty
School Supervisors · 902-538-4600 ext. 7801
Leanne Chesnutt
Communications Coordinator · 902-538-4600

As listed on Regional Directory, avrce.ca

Programs, services and transportation

Coordinators families are most likely to deal with.

Johnathan Connell
Coordinator of Transportation · 902-538-4641
transportation@avrce.ca
Angela Haggerty
Assistant Coordinator of Transportation · 902-538-4600
Karen Baker
Coordinator of Student Services · 902-538-4600 ext. 7820
Tyra MacLeod
Coordinator of Literacy and Assessment · 902-538-4600 ext. 7828
Karen Lander-Pinard
Coordinator of Student Success Planning and Mathematics · 902-538-4600 ext. 7827
Krista Parrish
Coordinator of French and Programs · 902-538-4600 ext. 7830
April Hiltz
Coordinator of Mi'kmaw Services and Education · 902-538-4600 ext. 7826
Krishinda McBride
Coordinator of African Canadian Education Services · 902-538-4600 ext. 7829
Brad Stokes
Coordinator of International Students and Special Projects · 902-538-4600 ext. 7833
Deanna Hamilton
Before and After School Program Manager · 902-844-0698

2305 English Mountain Rd, Coldbrook, NS

Enrolment not reported (2024-2025)

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