Provincial and Demonstration Schools Branch PDSB-ON
Belleville, Ontario · Public · English
Student success
How PDSB students are doing: four years of EQAO results against the province
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
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 Provincial and Demonstration Schools Branch's EQAO open data , published 2026-05.
Student lodging and catchments
Student Lodging and Admissions, pdsbnet.ca ↗- Who runs it
- The Ministry of Education's Provincial and Demonstration Schools Branch; students who live too far to commute stay in on-site student lodging during the school week
- Catchments, schools for the Deaf
- Ernest C. Drury (Milton) for boards in central Ontario, Robarts (London) for western Ontario, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk, and Sir James Whitney (Belleville) for eastern and northern Ontario, Durham, Peterborough, Hastings and Prince Edward
- Catchments, demonstration schools
- Amethyst (London) for southwestern boards from Windsor to Bruce-Grey and Thames Valley; Sagonaska (Belleville) for eastern and northeastern boards from Durham to Ottawa and North Bay; Trillium (Milton) for Toronto, Peel, Halton, Hamilton, York, Waterloo, Niagara, Simcoe and the northwest
- Lodging
- All demonstration school students are offered a lodging placement; counsellors run evening study periods, recreation and student development plans with families
Schools and governance
Governance
A branch of the Ministry of Education rather than an elected board; the Provincial Schools Authority is the employer and the Provincial and Demonstration Schools Council represents parents.
- Provincial Schools AuthorityEmployer of the schools' staff
- Provincial and Demonstration Schools CouncilParent council for the provincial and demonstration schools
As listed on Mission and Vision, pdsbnet.ca
Schools
The eight schools of the branch.
- Ernest C. Drury School for the DeafProvincial school, Milton
- Robarts School for the DeafProvincial school, London
- Sir James Whitney School for the DeafProvincial school, Belleville
- W. Ross Macdonald School for the BlindProvincial school, Brantford
- Amethyst Demonstration SchoolDemonstration school, London
- Sagonaska Demonstration SchoolDemonstration school, Belleville
- Trillium Demonstration SchoolDemonstration school, Milton
- Centre Jules-LegerFrench-language provincial and demonstration school, Ottawa
As listed on Provincial and Demonstration Schools Branch, pdsbnet.ca
Schools
16 total- Elementary schools
- 8
- Secondary schools
- 8
- Students enrolled
- 240
Individual school profiles for PDSB-ON are not on HeySchool yet. The board's own directory lists them all, and the EQAO figures above already cover every one of its 16 schools.
PDSB-ON school directory ↗