District School Board of Niagara | |
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Location | |
Canada | |
Coordinates | 43°10′30″N79°14′50″W / 43.17511°N 79.24713°W |
District information | |
School board | Kate Baggott Sue Barnett (Chair) Nancy Beamer Alex Bradnam (Vice Chair) Lora Campbell Jonathan ast Elizabeth Klassen Kevin Maves Shannon Mitchell Doug Newton Dave Schaubel |
Director of education | Kelly Pisek [1] |
Schools | 88 elementary 15 secondary [2] |
District ID | B66150 [3] |
Students and staff | |
Students | 43,000 [4] |
Other information | |
Website | dsbn |
The District School Board of Niagara (DSBN, known as English-language Public District School Board No. 22 prior to 1999 [5] ) is a school board in the public school system of Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Niagara. Its head office is in St. Catharines. The DSBN operates schools in each of the twelve municipalities in the region. It employs close to 2,500 instructional staff to teach over 43,000 students in 97 elementary schools and 18 secondary schools. As of 2018, it was considered the top employer by number of employees in the Niagara Region. [6] DSBN offers high school level courses online through Desire2Learn (D2L).
The board was created on January 1, 1998, as a result of the amalgamation of the Lincoln County Board of Education serving the boundaries of the former Lincoln County, and the Niagara South Board of Education which served the boundaries of the former Welland County.
School name | Street address | Community | Postal |
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A. N. Myer Secondary School | 6338 O'Neil Street | Niagara Falls | L2J 1M7 |
DSBN Academy | 130 Louth Street | St. Catharines | L2S 2T4 |
Eastdale Secondary School | 170 Wellington Street | Welland | L3B 1B3 |
Eden High School | 535 Lake Street | St. Catharines | L2N 4H7 |
E.L. Crossley Secondary School | 350 Highway #20 | Fonthill | L0S 1E0 |
Governor Simcoe Secondary School | 15 Glenview Avenue | St. Catharines | L2N 2Z7 |
Greater Fort Erie Secondary School | 1640 Garrison Road | Fort Erie | L2A 5M4 |
Laura Secord Secondary School | 349 Niagara Street | St. Catharines | L2M 4V9 |
Port Colborne High School | 211 Elgin Street | Port Colborne | L3K 3K4 |
Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School | 101 Glen Morris Drive | St. Catharines | L2T 2N1 |
Stamford Collegiate Secondary School | 5775 Drummond Road | Niagara Falls | L2G 4L2 |
St. Catharines Collegiate Secondary School | 34 Catherine Street | St. Catharines | L2R 5E7 |
Thorold Secondary School | 50 Ormond Street North | Thorold | L2V 1Z1 |
Welland Centennial Secondary School | 240 Thorold Road West | Welland | L3C 3W2 |
West Niagara Secondary School | 5699 King Street | Lincoln | L0R 1B3 |
Westlane Secondary School | 5960 Pitton Road | Niagara Falls | L2H 1T5 |
Stamford Collegiate began as Drummond Grammar School in 1856, Drummondville High School in 1871, Niagara South High School in 1882 and Stamford in 1907. [7]
Pelham District Secondary School (1949) began as a Pelham Continuation School in 1922 and closed in 1974. [8]
Thorold Fonthill High School opened in 1958 and became a senior public school in 1970 due to decline enrollment and as Glynn A Green Public School since 2011. [9]
Niagara District Secondary School was closed in 2010 and is now the site of the Royal Elite International Academy.
Fort Erie Secondary School and Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School were closed and merged into a new school known as Greater Fort Erie Secondary School, in September 2017. [10]
Grimsby Secondary School and Beamsville District Secondary School were closed in 2022 and merged into a new school known as West Niagara Secondary School.
St. Catharines is the most populous city in Canada's Niagara Region, the eighth largest urban area in the province of Ontario. As of 2017, St. Catharines has an area of 96.13 square kilometres (37.12 sq mi) and 140,370 residents. It lies in Southern Ontario, 51 kilometres (32 mi) south of Toronto across Lake Ontario, and is 19 kilometres (12 mi) inland from the international boundary with the United States along the Niagara River. It is the northern entrance of the Welland Canal. Residents of St. Catharines are known as St. Catharinites. St. Catharines carries the official nickname "The Garden City" due to its 1,000 acres (4 km2) of parks, gardens, and trails.
Fort Erie is a town on the Niagara River in Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. It is directly across the river from Buffalo, New York, and is the site of Old Fort Erie which played a prominent role in the War of 1812.
The Niagara Peninsula is an area of land lying between the southwestern shore of Lake Ontario and the northeastern shore of Lake Erie, in Ontario, Canada. Technically an isthmus rather than a peninsula, it stretches from the Niagara River in the east to Hamilton, Ontario, in the west. The peninsula is located in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario, and has a population of roughly 1,000,000 residents. The region directly across the Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York State is known as the Niagara Frontier.
The Regional Municipality of Niagara, also colloquially known as the Niagara Region or Region of Niagara, is a regional municipality comprising twelve municipalities of Southern Ontario, Canada. The regional seat is in Thorold. It is the southern end of the Golden Horseshoe, the largest megalopolis in Canada.
King's Highway 58, commonly referred to as Highway 58, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The route is divided into two segments with a combined length of 15.5 km (9.6 mi). The southern segment travels from Niagara Regional Road 3, formerly Highway 3, in Port Colborne, to the Highway 58A junction in the southern end of Welland, a distance of 7.2 km (4.5 mi). The northern segment begins at Highway 20 near Allanburg and travels north and west to a large junction with Highway 406 at the St. Catharines – Thorold boundary, a distance of 8.3 km (5.2 mi). An 18.1 km (11.2 mi) gap separates the two segments within Welland and Pelham. The entire route is located within the Regional Municipality of Niagara.
Pelham is a town located in the centre of Niagara Region in Ontario, Canada.
Fonthill is a community in the town of Pelham, Ontario, Canada. It has a few small industries, but is primarily a residential suburb with some fruit orchards, nature trails, and neighbourly attitude. As a bedroom community, most residents commute to Welland, St. Catharines and some as far as Buffalo, Hamilton and Toronto daily for work.
Ridgeway is a small, unincorporated village in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. The community is within the Niagara Regional Municipality. It used to be the seat of government for Bertie Township within Welland County. Ridgeway is now a part of the Town of Fort Erie. In recent years the rail line has been converted to a walking and cycling trail, part of a trail system circling the Niagara region.
Welland County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Lincoln was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1883 and from 1904 to 1997. It was on the Niagara Peninsula in the Canadian province of Ontario. At various times, there was also an electoral district of the same name used in provincial elections.
Niagara Falls is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1953.
Niagara Centre is a federal electoral district in the Niagara Region of Ontario that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1988 and since 1997.
The Niagara Catholic District School Board is the publicly funded Catholic school board in the Regional Municipality of Niagara which is located in Ontario Canada supporting the municipalities of Fort Erie, Grimsby, Lincoln & West Lincoln, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Pelham, Port Colborne, St. Catharines, Thorold, Wainfleet and Welland. Its head office, the Catholic Education Centre, is located in Welland, Ontario, Canada.
Thorold Secondary School, often referred to as "TSS," is a public secondary school in Thorold, Ontario, Canada. The school was named after Sir John Thorold, a member of the British Parliament for Lincolnshire, England. Despite its moderate size, the school consistently is among the top in the regional athletics for the DSBN.
Niagara Region Transit is a regional public transit system operating in the Niagara Region of Ontario. Initial service commenced on September 12, 2011, and consisted of inter-municipal routes. In January 2023, Niagara Region Transit assumed the operations of Welland Transit, Fort Erie Transit, St. Catharines Transit, and Niagara Falls Transit to form a single unified local transit service for the entire Niagara Region.
South Lincoln High School was a secondary school in Smithville, Ontario, Canada.
Grimsby Secondary School (GSS) was a secondary school in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. Operated by the District School Board of Niagara (DSBN), it had a student body of approximately 700 year-to-year.
Elections were held in the Niagara Region of Ontario on October 22, 2018, in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.
The DSBN Academy, less formally known as The academy is a public high school and middle school in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Louth Street and is part of the District School Board of Niagara. The DSBN Academy accepts students from anywhere in the Niagara Region. The school's program is designed to provide additional academic support for students from low-income backgrounds to better prepare them for post-secondary education.
Lincoln South was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, in Canada West. It was created in 1841, upon the establishment of the Province of Canada by the union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. Lincoln South was represented by one member in the Legislative Assembly. It was amalgamated prior to the election of 1848.
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