Toronto-Area Schools Get Top Marks in Annual Elementary School Ranking

Elementary schools from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are at the top of the heap when it comes to academic performance in Ontario. Sixteen of the 22 schools to receive a perfect 10-out-of-10 rating in the Fraser Institute’s 2024 Ontario report card are located in the GTA. The think tank published its grades for elementary schools  across the province this week, ranking the 3,021 public, Catholic and independent schools from best to worst.  Rankings are based on nine academic indicators derived from provincewide test results on reading, writing, and mathematics skills.  The province’s Grade 3 and Grade 6 Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) results provide systematic insight into a school’s performance, the report said, noting that it allows the institute to assess each school’s yearly performance as well as its improvement or deterioration over time....