These are the school boards heading back to class in Ontario next week

Select Ontario school boards are starting in-class learning next week.

On Wednesday, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said, “On the advice from the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the government is allowing seven public health units and over 100,000 students to return to class on Monday, January 25.”

According to Lecce, in order to ensure schools remain safe, the government is introducing additional measures including province-wide targeted asymptomatic testing, enhanced screening, mandatory masking for students in Grades 1-3 and outdoors where physical distancing cannot be maintained.

Schools in the following school boards will resume in-person learning on January 25:

Limestone District School Board
Renfrew County District School Board
Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board
Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board
Renfrew County Catholic District School Board
Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board
Bluewater District School Board

Some additional school boards span across multiple public health units (PHU) and may have some schools that resume in-person while others continue to teach remotely.

See also:
- Everything you need to know about Ontario’s Stay at Home order
- Toronto, Peel and York schools to remain closed until February

The local PHU should be contacted on the status of schools in these boards:

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
Trillium Lakelands District School Board
Upper Canada District School Board
Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario
Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic DSB
Conseil des écoles publiques de l`Est de l`Ontario
Conseil scolaire catholique Providence
Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir
Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Centre-Est de l’Ontario

On January 12, 2021, Ontario announced that elementary and secondary students in Windsor-Essex, Region of Peel, Toronto, York Region and Hamilton will continue to learn remotely until February 10.

The Ministry of Education, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, will continue to closely monitor public health trends in these regions.

Last week, Premier Doug Ford issued a second State of Emergency for the province and a Stay at Home order, effective January 14.