Waterloo Catholic District School Board

The Waterloo Catholic District School Board – the corporate body overseeing Waterloo Region’s Catholic Schools – protects and promotes a tradition of education excellence first begun in a one-room schoolhouse 1836. Today, we’re the eighth-largest Catholic school system in Ontario:46 elementary schools (Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8) 5 secondary schools (Grade 9 to Grade 12) 5 adult education facilities 2.5 million sq. ft. of floor space in schools -- on more than 400 acres of land 40,000 elementary, secondary and adult/continuing education students Students from more than 114 countries – speaking more than 68 languages 3,500 full & part-time staff 100,000 Catholic ratepayers 27% of area students attend Catholic schools 17% of residential taxpayers support Catholic schools 30% of local schools are Catholic schools $240 million annual budget $2 million+ raised for charity since 1998