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Canada spends an average of about 5.3 percent of its GDP on education. [30] The country invests heavily in tertiary education (more than US$20,000 per student). [31] As of 2022, 89 percent of adults aged 25 to 64 have earned the equivalent of a high-school degree, compared to an OECD average of 75 percent. [28]
For example, an English department in a high school could develop a media literacy presentation for the grade 9 culminating activity worth 10% of the students' final grade. The other 20% of the students' grade will be demonstrated with a written examination responding and applying a literary analysis to a sight-passage.
Since the 2023–2024 school year, students from kindergarten to Grade 9 have been assessed with a proficiency scale system. This proficiency scale system has been in use for about half of the province's students since the launch of the pilot programme in 2016 (after the modernization of the province's curriculum). [ 3 ]
This category is for educational institutions located within Canada. For K-12 schools, see grade groupings for how schools tend to be classified based on what grades they teach. The term "middle school" is the same as "junior high". The term "senior high school" or just "high school" generally means "secondary school".
The first option is to remove the first year of college study from consideration, since it is in fact the twelfth year of study overall in Quebec (similar to grade 12), and the laws of the land throughout Canada dictate that a high school diploma from Quebec lacks one additional year in order to be considered the equivalent of a high school ...
Junior high/middle school. Grade 7 (ages 12–13) Grade 8 (ages 13–14) Grade 9 (ages 14–15) High school/senior high. Grade 10 (ages 15–16) Grade 11 (ages 16–17) Grade 12 (ages 17–18) Higher/post-secondary education. College: The term college usually refers to a community college or a technical, applied arts, or applied science school.
The elimination of the fifth year of high school education in Ontario led to a number of consequences, most notably the double cohorts in 2003, in which an unusually high proportion of students graduated in Ontario. Since the elimination of OAC, some have noted that a greater proportion of students have entered post-secondary education. [4]
The senior high school will serve as a specialized upper secondary education where students may choose a course based on aptitude, interests, and school capacity. The choice of career track will define the content of the subjects a student takes in Grades 11 and 12. Senior high school subjects fall under either the core curriculum or specific ...