Near North District School Board NNDSB
North Bay, Ontario · Public · English
EQAO performance
Students at or above the provincial standard (2022-2023, EQAO). Green means at or above the Ontario average.
Grade 3
Grade 6
Secondary
How NNDSB ranks in Ontario
Ranked against the 76 Ontario school boards with published EQAO results, by the mean of the assessments each board sat (2022-2023).
NNDSB places highest on OSSLT Literacy (#41 of 71) and lowest on Grade 6 Writing (#60 of 75).
| Assessment | At or above standard | Rank in Ontario | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSSLT Literacy | 79% | #41 of 71 | 43 |
| Grade 6 Reading | 77.5% | #49 of 75 | 35 |
| Grade 6 Math | 33.4% | #50 of 75 | 34 |
| Grade 3 Reading | 58.6% | #55 of 75 | 27 |
| Grade 3 Writing | 45.3% | #56 of 75 | 26 |
| Grade 3 Math | 40.3% | #58 of 75 | 23 |
| Grade 9 Math | 28.2% | #58 of 71 | 19 |
| Grade 6 Writing | 70% | #60 of 75 | 20 |
Student success
How NNDSB students are doing: four years of EQAO results against the province, and graduation and credit accumulation from the Ministry of Education's May 2026 school board progress table
Grade 3, at or above the provincial standard
EQAO primary assessment, share of fully participating students at level 3 or 4 (the provincial standard), from EQAO open data
Grade 6, at or above the provincial standard
EQAO junior assessment, share of fully participating students at level 3 or 4
Grade 9 mathematics and the literacy test
Grade 9 assessment of mathematics, share at level 3 or 4, and the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test, share of first-time eligible students who were successful
Graduation and credits, Ministry progress report
From the Ministry of Education's school board progress table, May 2026: graduation and credit accumulation for every Ontario board, with the change on the previous year
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.
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What the report says
The figures as charts, every year labelled, and the report's findings, in one PDF. Show Hide
Figures and findings read from Near North District School Board's EQAO open data; School board achievements and progress, data.ontario.ca, May 2026 , published 2026-05.
School buses and catchment areas
Transportation, nearnorthschools.ca; NPSSTS ↗- Who runs it
- Nipissing-Parry Sound Student Transportation Services (NPSSTS), shared with the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic, Nord-Est and Franco-Nord boards; delays and cancellations on npssts.ca
- Who qualifies
- Elementary students who live more than 1.6 km from their designated school and secondary students who live more than 3.2 km away
- Weather
- Buses are cancelled by zone on the consortium's advice from Environment Canada warnings; schools stay open and families are asked to have a plan in place
- Check an address
- The consortium's BusPlanner shows each school's boundary and whether an address is eligible
Catchment maps
Every Near North school's boundary from the NPSSTS BusPlanner map: the elementary catchments across the two districts, the North Bay area and the secondary catchments.
Trustees and senior staff
Board of Trustees
Trustees elected across Nipissing and Parry Sound districts, with a student trustee and an Indigenous student trustee.
- Erika LougheedChair · Corbeil, former East Ferris councillor
- Howard WesleyVice Chair
- Julie Ann BertramTrustee
- Shane HallTrustee
- Chantal PhillipsTrustee
- Louise SargentTrustee
- Ashley St. PierreTrustee
- Bill SteerTrustee · founder of the Canadian Ecology Centre
- Dora Chen and Albany BensonStudent Trustees · Albany Benson is the Indigenous student trustee
As listed on Board of Trustees, nearnorthschools.ca
Senior leadership team
The chief executive officer and superintendents.
- Jay MacJanetChief Executive Officer
- Seija Van HaesendonckSuperintendent of Business
- Melanie GraySuperintendent of Learning
- Kim PauliSuperintendent of Learning
- Gillian KajganichSuperintendent of Learning
- Emily SamuelSuperintendent of Safe Schools and Human Resources
As listed on Senior Leadership Team, nearnorthschools.ca
Schools
37 total- Elementary schools
- 31
- Secondary schools
- 6
- Students enrolled
- 10,025
Individual school profiles for NNDSB are not on HeySchool yet. The board's own directory lists them all, and the EQAO figures above already cover every one of its 37 schools.
NNDSB school directory ↗