Halton Catholic District School Board
| Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) | |
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802 Drury Lane, Burlington, ON, L7R 2Y2, Canada Milton, Ontario Oakville, Ontario Burlington, Ontario Georgetown, Ontario Canada |
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| District information | |
| Chair of the board | Jane Michael |
| Director of education | Paula Dawson |
| Schools | 46 Elementary 9 Secondary 3 Adult Learning Centres |
| Budget | CA$375.8 million (September - August, 2016-2017) |
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| Website | www |
The Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) serves over 31,000 students at its 46 elementary schools, 9 secondary schools and 3 continuing education facilities. The HCDSB serves the communities of Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton, and Oakville, with the main Board office (Catholic Education Centre) located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
The Halton Catholic District School Board is the Catholic school board for the Halton region.
The Halton Catholic District School Board traces its roots back to 1856 when the founder Robin Smith and Father Morgan Rex-Ryan founded St. Mary’s School – the first Catholic elementary school in Oakville to establish education programs for Catholic children in the town of Oakville. A separate school zone was formally established in 1856, in which the Oakville Separate School Board was constituted. Under provincial legislation, separate school zones were later formed in Burlington, Georgetown and Milton.
As part of a province-wide restructuring of school boards initiated by then Minister of Education Bill Davis, Halton's separate school boards were merged to form the Halton County Roman Catholic Separate School Board, which came into effect on January 1, 1969. As a result of the formation of the Regional Municipality of Halton in 1974, it became the "Halton Roman Catholic Separate School Board", and its jurisdiction was extended to the entire Region.
In the years following amalgamation, the Board witnessed, not only the physical growth of its English language schools, but also the development of French language schools, and the eventual establishment of a French Language Section of the Board to govern the three French-language schools in 1986.
In the late 1970s, the school board ventured into the area of secondary education, and, assisted by the legislative provision for full funding to Ontario's Catholic secondary schools in 1986, established five secondary schools, later adding four more:
Amalgamation also opened the school system to special needs students, and as a result the Special Education Department was created. This occurred in advance of provincial legislation passed in 1980 on the matter.
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