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The Ottawa public school board is considering getting rid of “middle schools” that cater to Grade 6-8 students. That’s one of the key recommendations in a wide-ranging report considering how best to operate high schools.
The report was considered by trustees at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board on Tuesday. The board spent several years studying secondary schools, and gathering advice and comments.
The change would be gradual, but the report suggests getting rid of middle schools, which include various configurations of students in grades 6 to 8. Instead, high schools would either include grades 9 to 12 or grades 7 to 12. Elementary schools would be junior kindergarten to Grade 8 or JK to Grade 6. The change would mean students have fewer transitions as they go through the school system, the report said.
Education experts now realize it’s not ideal to group students in grades 6 to 8 together, said trustee Donna Blackburn. When kids that age are in a school with younger students instead, it gives them a chance to learn leadership roles by acting as lunch monitors and reading buddies, she said. As for sending students to high school as early as Grade 7, the Ottawa Catholic School Board uses that configuration and it seems to work well, she said.
Eliminating middle schools is also one part of the puzzle as the board spends the next five years trying to eliminate the mismatch between where school buildings are located and where they are needed. Enrolment is declining, and the board has 11,500 empty pupil spaces across Ottawa. But while some schools are half empty, others in fast-growing neighbourhoods are overcrowded. Some schools will have to close and some programs changed or consolidated.
That process begins this fall with two “accommodation reviews”: one of three high schools in the east end — Gloucester, Rideau and Colonel By — and the other of 26 schools in the Ottawa West-Merivale area.
The secondary school report also suggests increasing the number of program options at high schools. Community high schools should offer at least three levels of academic programs, as well as Core French and French Immersion, the report said.
The report also recommends the addition of an International Baccalaureate program in the west end of the city. The popular program for high academic achievers is now only offered at Colonel By Secondary School in the east end, which is over capacity. Having a program in the west end would spare students from those neighbourhood long bus rides.
It hasn’t been decided which school will have the IB program; that will be studied as part of the western accommodation review.
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The report was considered by trustees at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board on Tuesday. The board spent several years studying secondary schools, and gathering advice and comments.
The change would be gradual, but the report suggests getting rid of middle schools, which include various configurations of students in grades 6 to 8. Instead, high schools would either include grades 9 to 12 or grades 7 to 12. Elementary schools would be junior kindergarten to Grade 8 or JK to Grade 6. The change would mean students have fewer transitions as they go through the school system, the report said.
Education experts now realize it’s not ideal to group students in grades 6 to 8 together, said trustee Donna Blackburn. When kids that age are in a school with younger students instead, it gives them a chance to learn leadership roles by acting as lunch monitors and reading buddies, she said. As for sending students to high school as early as Grade 7, the Ottawa Catholic School Board uses that configuration and it seems to work well, she said.
Eliminating middle schools is also one part of the puzzle as the board spends the next five years trying to eliminate the mismatch between where school buildings are located and where they are needed. Enrolment is declining, and the board has 11,500 empty pupil spaces across Ottawa. But while some schools are half empty, others in fast-growing neighbourhoods are overcrowded. Some schools will have to close and some programs changed or consolidated.
That process begins this fall with two “accommodation reviews”: one of three high schools in the east end — Gloucester, Rideau and Colonel By — and the other of 26 schools in the Ottawa West-Merivale area.
The secondary school report also suggests increasing the number of program options at high schools. Community high schools should offer at least three levels of academic programs, as well as Core French and French Immersion, the report said.
The report also recommends the addition of an International Baccalaureate program in the west end of the city. The popular program for high academic achievers is now only offered at Colonel By Secondary School in the east end, which is over capacity. Having a program in the west end would spare students from those neighbourhood long bus rides.
It hasn’t been decided which school will have the IB program; that will be studied as part of the western accommodation review.
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