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Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board WECDSB

Windsor, Ontario · Catholic · English

Students
21,925
2022-2023 enrolment
Schools
44
35 elementary · 9 secondary

EQAO performance

Students at or above the provincial standard (2022-2023, EQAO). Green means at or above the Ontario average.

Grade 3

82%
Reading
+7 vs ON
77.6%
Writing
+10.6 vs ON
67%
Math
-8 vs ON

Grade 6

89.2%
Reading
+0.2 vs ON
91.1%
Writing
+12.1 vs ON
55.7%
Math
-7.3 vs ON

Secondary

55.3%
G9 Math
-2.7 vs ON
90.4%
OSSLT
-2.6 vs ON

How WECDSB 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).

Overall rank
#4 of 76
Percentile
96
higher is stronger
Mean at or above standard
76%

WECDSB places highest on Grade 3 Reading (#3 of 75) and lowest on Grade 9 Math (#10 of 71).

Assessment At or above standard Rank in Ontario Percentile
Grade 3 Reading 82% #3 of 75 97
Grade 3 Writing 77.6% #3 of 75 97
Grade 6 Reading 89.2% #3 of 75 97
Grade 6 Writing 91.1% #3 of 75 97
OSSLT Literacy 90.4% #4 of 71 96
Grade 6 Math 55.7% #7 of 75 92
Grade 3 Math 67% #8 of 75 91
Grade 9 Math 55.3% #10 of 71 87

Student success

How WECDSB 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

Read EQAO results and the Ministry's 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. Show

Figures and findings read from Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board's EQAO open data; School board achievements and progress, data.ontario.ca, May 2026 , published 2026-05.

Chart

Who runs it
Windsor-Essex Student Transportation Services (WESTS, buskids.ca), shared with the Greater Essex County DSB, CSC Providence and CS Viamonde; bus status and JK first-ride registration on its site
Who qualifies
Students whose primary address is more than 1.0 km from school in junior and senior kindergarten, 1.6 km in grades 1 to 8 and 3.2 km in grades 9 to 12
Check an address
The consortium's geoquery tool shows which school an address belongs to and its boundary map
Contact
Catholic Education Centre 519-253-2481

Trustees and senior staff

Board of Trustees

Nine trustees elected by Windsor ward pairs and county areas, the board chaplain and two student trustees. Catholic Education Centre 519-253-2481.

  • Lisa Soulliere
    Chair · Area 3, Lakeshore
  • Jason Lazarus
    Vice-Chair · Windsor wards 5 and 8
  • Fulvio Valentinis
    Trustee · Windsor wards 1 and 10
  • Joe Iacono
    Trustee · Windsor wards 2 and 9
  • Bernie Mastromattei
    Trustee · Windsor wards 3 and 4
  • Kim Bouchard
    Trustee · Windsor wards 6 and 7
  • Frank DiTomasso
    Trustee · Area 1, LaSalle and Amherstburg
  • Mary DiMenna
    Trustee · Area 2, Essex, Harrow, Kingsville and Leamington
  • Mary Heath
    Trustee · Area 4, Tecumseh
  • Father Matthew Kucharski
    Board Chaplain
  • Chloe DiPonio and Portia Tonenchi
    Student Trustees · St. Anne and Catholic Central

As listed on Trustees, wecdsb.on.ca

Senior administration

The chief executive officer, executive superintendents and superintendents, 519-253-2481.

  • John Ulicny
    Chief Executive Officer and Chief Education Officer
  • Melissa Farrand
    Executive Superintendent of Education, Student Achievement K-12
  • Penny King
    Executive Superintendent of Business
  • Colleen Norris
    Executive Superintendent of Human Resources
  • Rosemary Lo Faso
    Superintendent of Human Resources and Education
  • Joumana Tawil
    Superintendent of Education and Human Resources
  • Mona Taouil, Kelly-Ann Bull, LeeAnn Poisson and Amy LoFaso
    Superintendents of Education, Student Achievement K-12

As listed on Senior Administration, wecdsb.on.ca

Schools

44 total
Elementary schools
35
Secondary schools
9
Students enrolled
21,925

Individual school profiles for WECDSB are not on HeySchool yet. The board's own directory lists them all, and the EQAO figures above already cover every one of its 44 schools.

WECDSB school directory ↗