Private schools in Ontario
1,666 private schools across 358 Ontario cities are in this directory, drawn from the Ministry of Education's open register. Of the 884 schools here that teach secondary grades, 660 hold ministry authority to grant credits toward the Ontario Secondary School Diploma.
Cities
This directory covers every registered private school in Ontario. 26 cities are in the first group to get their own page below, chosen rather than thresholded; every other city's schools are still in the register and still have their own detail pages, they just do not have a city page yet.
- Toronto246 schools
- Mississauga105 schools
- Markham72 schools
- North York64 schools
- Richmond Hill58 schools
- Ottawa54 schools
- Brampton51 schools
- Scarborough50 schools
- Oakville39 schools
- Thornhill28 schools
- Etobicoke28 schools
- Burlington20 schools
- Kitchener20 schools
- London19 schools
- Hamilton18 schools
- Newmarket13 schools
- Oshawa13 schools
- Cambridge12 schools
- Kingston12 schools
- Barrie11 schools
- Guelph11 schools
- Windsor11 schools
- Maple9 schools
- Kanata8 schools
- Thunder Bay8 schools
- Aurora7 schools
Why Ontario, and only Ontario, today
This directory covers Ontario only, today. Ontario is the province that publishes a complete register of its private schools under an open licence, with a name, address and credit-granting status for every one of them, and that completeness is what makes a directory like this possible to build honestly and keep current. If another province publishes an equivalent open register, this directory can extend there; until then, it does not guess at what it cannot verify.
Why credit authority is the fact worth checking
A private secondary school in Ontario can only issue credits toward the Ontario Secondary School Diploma once the ministry has inspected it and granted that authority; a school that has not been inspected, or has applied but not yet been approved, cannot. That inspection record is public, and this directory reports it plainly for every secondary school rather than folding it into a rating or leaving it out. It does not apply to elementary schools at all: Ontario does not inspect private elementary schools for credit authority, because elementary schools do not grant secondary school credits, so the question this fact answers simply does not arise for them.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.