E. C. Drury School for the Deaf
| Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf | |
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225 Ontario Street South Milton, Ontario, L9T 2M5  Canada
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| Coordinates | 43°30′52″N 79°52′15″W / 43.5145°N 79.8707°WCoordinates: 43°30′52″N 79°52′15″W / 43.5145°N 79.8707°W |
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| School type | Provincial School for the Deaf |
| Motto | 'Together We Succeed' |
| Founded | April 21, 1963 |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Enrollment | 250+ |
| Language | American Sign Language (ASL), English |
| Colour(s) | Green and Yellow |
| Mascot | Spartan |
| Team name | ECD Spartans |
| Website | www |
The Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf is a provincial school in Milton, Ontario, Canada, with residential and day programs serving elementary and secondary deaf and hard-of-hearing students. It shared a campus with the E.C. Drury High School, for hearing students until June 2012, when E.C. Drury High School closed.
Along with three other provincial schools for the deaf in Ontario, it is operated by the Ministry of Education under Education Act of Ontario section 13(1).
Teachers are both deaf and hearing. This school is named after the former premier of Ontario, Ernest C. Drury.
Deaf student population is approximately 90 students in the senior school and 100 in the elementary school; total is 190 students.
Deaf students from Canada often attend Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. and Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York for post-secondary programs.
The Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf uses a bilingual-bicultural approach to educating deaf and hard-of-hearing students. American Sign Language (ASL) and English are the languages of instruction.
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