The Halton District School Board serves public school students throughout

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, including the municipalities of Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville. Its administration area is to the southwest of the city of

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. In 2006-2007, it served almost 50,000 students, excluding those in adult, alternative, and Community Education programs.

History

Education in the former

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was previously governed by a framework of boards for various high school districts and public school districts associated with them. In 1967, as a result of initiatives undertaken by then Minister of Education

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, work was begun to amalgamate all boards on a county-wide level throughout the Province, and such a move was recommended to the

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that year for its approval. The move was opposed by the southern boards of education in

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and Oakville, but that was overruled upon passage of mandatory legislation by the

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in 1968. The Board was constituted as the Halton County Board of Education, which was established on January 1, 1969. When the County was replaced by the

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, the Board became the Halton Board of Education. As part of the province-wide restructuring of Ontario's school boards as a consequence of the passage of the ''Fewer School Boards Act, 1997'', the English-language Public District School Board No. 20 was created to take over the Region's schools. It was merged with the former Board at the beginning of 1998, and was renamed as the "Halton District School Board" in 1999.

Schools

The Board operates 76 elementary schools, and 17 secondary schools, which are organized into the following areas: * East Area (Oakville) * North Area (Halton Hills and Milton) * West Area (Burlington) Secondary school enrollment and

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provincial rankings are as follows:

Trustees

Student Trustees

As required by the

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, the following student trustees have been named to serve on the Board:

Board of Trustee Chairs & Vice-Chairs

The Halton District School Board's Board of Trustees annually elect its chair and a vice-chair at its Annual Organization Meetings (AOM). The current chair of the Halton District School is Margo Shuttleworth and the current vice-chair is Tracey Ehl Harrison.

Other

The Board also operates the following specialized facilities: *

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- for adult, alternative and Community Education programs.
Syl Apps School

Programming

The Pathways programme encourages all post-secondary options, from apprenticeship, to college, to university, to the workplace. The Board has also introduced specialist high skills majors and other unique programs for students, including fully online high school credits. The

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programme is offered at: *

Georgetown District High School Georgetown District High School or better known as GDHS is a high school located in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. The school is under the jurisdiction of the Halton District School Board. As of the 2019–20 school year, approximately 1,500 studen ...

Burlington Central High School Burlington Central High School is a public middle school and high school in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, in the Halton District School Board. Enrollment was 686 students in September 2008. The current school building was constructed in 1922 and ...

White Oaks Secondary School White Oaks Secondary School (WOSS) is a secondary school located in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. The school has north and south campuses, across the road from each other. The north campus used to be attended by students who had different levels a ...

* Craig Kielburger Secondary School (IBDP candidate school)

References

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