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Capital Strategy

The Capital Strategy identifies new schools, additions to schools and replacement school requirements and will serve as the basis for the Board’s multi-year capital funding request to the Ministry of Education.

2024-2025 Capital Priorities Program Submission List (PDF)​

The goals of the Capital Strategy are provided below. The implementation of each goal is subject to Ministry of Education approvals and funding.

  • To provide community schools for all students wherever possible
  • To provide permanent accommodation to match sustainable community growth in a timely fashion
  • To minimize the reliance on portable accommodation
  • To replace older school facilities where conditions warrant
  • To utilize excess capacity within the system wherever practical
  • To combine schools and/or undertake pupil accommodation reviews where circumstances warrant according to Policy #463, Pupil Accommodation Review

Projects Submitted to the Ministry of Education

2024-25 Capital Priorities Program (CPP)Submission List

Elementary

*Proposed OpeningProject NameMunicipalityProject TypeProposed CapacityStatus
*Proposed Opening 2029Project Name Village Parkway ESMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity 638Status  
*Proposed Opening 2029Project Name Cornell South #5 ESMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity 638Status  
*Proposed Opening 2029Project Name North Leslie East ESMunicipality Richmond HillProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity 638Status  

 

Secondary

*Proposed OpeningProject NameMunicipalityProject TypeProposed CapacityStatus
*Proposed Opening 2027Project Name Unionville HS RCM ReplacementMunicipality MarkhamProject Type ReplacementProposed Capacity 322Status  
*Proposed Opening 2027Project Name Markville SS AdditionMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity 409Status  
*Proposed Opening 2030Project Name Markham Berczy Glen SSMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity 1301Status  
*Proposed Opening 2028Project Name Dr. G.W. Williams SS AdditionMunicipality AuroraProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity 253Status  

* Proposed opening dates are contingent on timing of Ministry of Education approval. 

 

Emerging Project Areas: Potential in 5-10 Years

PanelArea DescriptorMunicipalityProject TypeProposed Capacity
Panel ElemArea Descriptor E.J. Sand PS AdditionMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor Leitchcroft ESMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor Markham Elem Additions - Central Markham/Hwy 7 CorridorMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor North Markham Berczy ESMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor Block 40-41 ESMunicipality VaughanProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel SecArea Descriptor Block 11 SSMunicipality VaughanProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD

 

Longer-term Growth Areas

PanelArea DescriptorMunicipalityProject TypeProposed Capacity
Panel ElemArea Descriptor Holland Landing/QueensvilleMunicipality East GwillimburyProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor KeswickMunicipality GeorginaProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor SuttonMunicipality GeorginaProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor Hwy 7 IntensificationMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor Markham CentreMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor North MarkhamMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor NewmarketMunicipality NewmarketProject Type Growth/ReplacementProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor North Leslie/Oak RidgesMunicipality Richmond HillProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor StouffvilleMunicipality StouffvilleProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor MapleMunicipality VaughanProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel ElemArea Descriptor WoodbridgeMunicipality VaughanProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel SecArea Descriptor East GwillimburyMunicipality East GwillimburyProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel SecArea Descriptor MarkhamMunicipality MarkhamProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD
Panel SecArea Descriptor VaughanMunicipality VaughanProject Type GrowthProposed Capacity TBD

 

Emerging Project Areas and Longer-term Growth Areas are listed in alphabetical order. Potential future project areas have been identified as an Emerging Project Area or Longer-term Growth Area based on current residential growth assumptions and will continue to be reviewed and updated as required when additional data becomes available.

 

Proposed Pupil Accommodation Reviews

In previous Capital Strategies, small schools have been reviewed and recommendations were brought forward to annually review or propose that Pupil Accommodation Reviews (PARs) be considered where appropriate. A number of variables would impact the consideration for a Pupil Accommodation Review (PAR), as small schools could have more than one emerging concern. At this time, the Ministry of Education has placed a moratorium on initiating PARs.

In the 2019 Capital Strategy and Capital Priorities Program Submission List​ report, staff reviewed the status of small schools and proposed that pupil accommodation reviews be considered for Newmarket Central (J.L.R. Bell Public School) and Markham Thornhill (Stornoway Crescent Public School) once the Ministry of Education lifts the moratorium on PARs.

 

Future Student Accommodation

Planning staff review new residential development applications across the entire Region to ensure adequate pupil accommodation. We work with municipalities and developers to designate school sites in areas of significant residential development, several years, or decades, before a new home is even constructed.

The Board reviews accommodation priorities on an annual basis, and depending on the anticipated timelines for development, we establish areas where school accommodation pressures are most imminent. Notwithstanding the Board’s ability to designate a school site in an area of residential development, the construction of a school is based on availability of the school site from the developer, a threshold of students in the area, pupil places available in neighbouring schools including portable usage, and funding from the Ministry of Education.

If you are looking to move to a new York Region community, please inquire with Planning Services staff regarding the status of a school site in a development plan.

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