Facts about elementary and secondary education
Find data about schools, school boards, funding and the numbers of students and school staff. These facts are for the 2023-24 school year.
Schools and school boards
The following are the most recent facts and figures available for Ontario's publicly funded education system.
- Administration: Ontario's schools are administered by district school boards and school authorities.
- School boards are divided as follows:
- 31 English Public
- 29 English Catholic
- 4 French Public
- 8 French Catholic
- There are 10 school authorities, consisting of 4 geographically isolated boards and 6 hospital-based school authorities.
- There is 1 provincial schools authority.
- There is 1 consortium.
- As of 2023-2024, there were 3,965 elementary and 883 secondary schools in Ontario.
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Education funding
- For 2023-2024, the government's total operating investment through the Grants for Students Needs was estimated to be $28.2 billion.
- For 2023-2024, the government's total capital investment was estimated to be $2.3 billion.
Teachers, administrators and early childhood educators
- In 2023-2024, there were 127,898.79 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers, consisting of 85,105.39 elementary and 42,793.40 secondary teachers. The numbers include long-term occasional (LTO) teachers and exclude teachers in Education and Community Partnership Program (ECPP) facilities.
- In 2023-2024, there were 7,666.46 FTE administrators (principals and vice-principals), consisting of 5,647.20 elementary and 2,019.26 secondary administrators.
- In 2023-2024, there were 9,591.53 FTE early childhood educators (ECEs), including LTO ECEs.
Data excludes personnel on leave. LTO teacher data are as reported by school boards through OnSIS. The definition of an LTO teacher or LTO Early Childhood Educator may vary across school boards based on local collective agreements in place.
Enrolment
As of 2023-2024 the number of students in Ontario was: 2,080,498.
The following illustrates enrolment by grade and language, as of 2023-2024:
| Grade | English Language | French Language | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Kindergarten | 115,738 | 7,722 | 123,460 |
| Kindergarten | 124,831 | 8,236 | 133,067 |
| Grade 1 | 130,438 | 8,474 | 138,912 |
| Grade 2 | 133,546 | 8,662 | 142,208 |
| Grade 3 | 134,970 | 8,728 | 143,698 |
| Grade 4 | 136,980 | 8,828 | 145,808 |
| Grade 5 | 137,442 | 8,591 | 146,033 |
| Grade 6 | 140,712 | 8,531 | 149,243 |
| Grade 7 | 139,327 | 8,039 | 147,366 |
| Grade 8 | 141,625 | 8,222 | 149,847 |
| Total | 1,335,609 | 84,033 | 1,419,642 |
| Grade | English Language | French Language | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 149,024 | 7,207 | 156,231 |
| Grade 10 | 150,791 | 7,103 | 157,894 |
| Grade 11 | 150,902 | 6,811 | 157,713 |
| Grade 12 | 181,646 | 7,372 | 189,018 |
| Total | 632,363 | 28,493 | 660,856 |
Sources: As reported by schools through the Ontario School Information System (OnSIS), 2023-2024 (Preliminary as of September 20, 2024, with all schools that met identified criteria with signed-off submissions).
Data includes public and Catholic schools and school authorities. Data excludes private schools, publicly funded hospital and provincial schools, ECPP facilities, summer, night and adult continuing education schools. Data is based on headcount of students.
Education funding data on total operating investment is from the revised published “Core Education Funding Projections for the 2024-25 School Year” (2023-24 revised estimates column) and total capital investment data is from the ministry reviewed 2023-24 revised estimates from school boards.
All data for 2023-2024 is preliminary as of September 20, 2024.
Find data on previous years
Download data from 2017-18 and onwards from the Open Data Catalogue. For data on previous years, please contact RFI_ESAB@ontario.ca.
Footnotes
- footnote[1] Back to paragraph Count of schools excludes remote schools/Temporary Remote Learning Schools (TRLS). However, students in TRLS are included in the enrolment counts.