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The province has a number of Sikh, Hindu, Christian, and Islamic schools. Alberta also has a network of charter schools, which are fully funded schools offering distinct approaches to education within the public school system. Alberta charter schools are not private and the province does not grant charters to religious schools.
List of school authorities in Alberta; List of school districts in British Columbia; List of school districts in Manitoba; List of school districts in New Brunswick; List of school districts in Newfoundland and Labrador; List of school districts in Nova Scotia; List of school districts in Ontario; List of school districts in Prince Edward Island
List of schools of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (English public schools) List of schools of the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (French Catholic schools) List of schools of the Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario (French public schools) List of schools in Regina, Saskatchewan
This is a list of school districts in Ontario.. There are 76 public school boards in Ontario, including 38 public secular boards (34 English boards and 4 French boards ()), 38 public separate boards (29 English Catholic boards, 8 French Catholic boards and 1 English Protestant board), and 7 public school authorities that operate in children's treatment centres.
St. Johns Common School is the oldest extant public school in Ontario. Upper Canada's Grammar School Act of 1807 provided the first public funds for schools in what would become Ontario. Eight schools were opened. [12]
Eventually the major Protestant boards merged into an integrated school system. Over time, the originally Protestant school boards of English Canada, known as the public schools, became increasingly secularized as Canadians came to believe in the separation of Church and state, and the main boards became secular ones. In Ontario all overt ...
Education in British Columbia comprises public and private primary and secondary schools throughout the province. Like most other provinces in Canada, education is compulsory from ages 6–16 (grades 1–10), although the vast majority of students remain in school until they graduate from high school at the age of 18.
In the 1996–1997 school year, Quebec had 156 school districts including 135 Catholic districts, 18 Protestant school districts, and three First Nations districts. The school districts operated 2,670 public schools, including 1,895 primary schools, 576 general or professional secondary schools, and 199 combined primary and secondary schools.