Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board

Accommodation review of Belleville schools

Background

Accommodation reviews were approved for the Belleville and Madoc areas and a number of schools in Prince Edward County in November 2016. An accommodation review happens through the school board, with public input, to determine the future of a school or group of schools.

• Schools included in the Belleville accommodation review (Pdf)
• Initial recommendation report about the Belleville schools (Pdf)

Accommodation review final recommendations

On June 19, 2017, Board members made the following recommendations for Belleville area schools:

• Recommendation 1: Consolidate Hillcrest School and Prince of Wales Public School at Prince of Wales Public School, effective September 2017. Hillcrest will close at the end of June 2017.
• Recommendation 2: Consolidate Moira Secondary School and Quinte Secondary School at Moira Secondary School, effective September 2018. Rebrand the consolidated school with a new name and logo. Modify boundaries so that some Quinte students move to Centennial Secondary School in order to ensure an equitable distribution of students for programming purposes. Seek Ministry of Education funding/approval to build a new 9-12 school in Belleville, in consultation with the City of Belleville. Potential locations could include the former Hillcrest School site, current Moira site or another location in east Belleville. If funding/approval for a new school is not approved, seek Ministry of Education funding/approval for an addition/renovation to Moira Secondary School.
• Recommendation 3: Consolidate Queen Elizabeth Public School (Belleville) and Queen Victoria School, pending submission of a business case to the Ministry of Education seeking funding/approval to build a new K-8 school in Belleville in consultation with the City of Belleville. Potential locations could include the current Queen Elizabeth site or another location in east Belleville. Should funding/approval for a new school not be approved, seek Ministry of Education funding/approval for an addition/renovation to Queen Elizabeth School. Harry J. Clarke Public School students would remain at the current site.
• Recommendation 4: Relocate Grade 7 and 8 students from Sir John A. Macdonald School to Centennial Secondary School, creating a 7-12 school, effective September 2017.
• Recommendation 5: Revise attendance boundaries between Sir John A. Macdonald School and Susanna Moodie Elementary School effective September 2018. Families with children registered at Sir John A. Macdonald School will not be impacted by the attendance boundary changes.
• Recommendation 6: Continue to explore opportunities for community partnerships for the consolidated school(s), including child care opportunities that are aligned with the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan priorities.

Administrative Review

Following the final recommendations by the Board of Trustees, if accommodation review participants believe that the accommodation review did not comply with the board's policy, they may submit a formal request to the Ministry of Education for an administrative review of the process. Administrative review requests are considered by the ministry and may be granted if serious deficiencies have been identified and substantiated.

The administrative review is not an assessment of the Board of Trustees' decision, but of whether the school board's process followed its pupil accommodation review policy. The report from the administrative review cannot overturn a school board's decision. The reviewer's report is given to the Minister of Education who shares it with the Board of Trustees and with the public. It is the Board of Trustees that decides how to proceed in light of the review.

A request for an administrative review for Quinte Secondary School was filed with the Ministry of Education by July 19, 2017 (within the required 30-day timeframe).

Below is the HPEDSB response with links to appendices.

Administrative Review for Quinte Secondary School

→ HPEDSB response to the request for an Administrative Review for Quinte Secondary School, submitted to the Ministry of Education on August 19, 2017 (Pdf)

→ Ministry of Education confirms no further action Ministry response not to appoint a facilitator for Quinte Secondary School, September 20, 2017 (Pdf)

• Appendix 1
  • Policy 15: Student Enrolment School Capacity: Pupil Accommodation Review (Pdf)
  • Procedure 178: Accommodation Review Committee (ARC) (Pdf)
• Appendix 2
• Board Report No. B-2, dated June 19, 2017 (Pdf)
• Appendix 3

• Watson Report (Pdf)

• Appendix 4
• Long-Term Capital Plan (Pdf)
• Appendix 5
• Initial Report (Pdf)
• Appendix 6
• Screen shots of the relevant Board web pages
• Appendix 7
• Belleville Area Accommodation Review Final Report (Pdf)
• Appendix 8
• Belleville Area Accommodation Review Recommendations (Pdf)
• Appendix 9
• Bulletin #9 Long-Term Capital & Accommodation Planning: Decisions have been made, now what? (Pdf)
• Appendix 10
• Capital Planning Forecast documents
• VFA Requirement Forecast Report for Quinte Secondary School (Pdf)
• VFA Requirement Forecast Report for Moira Secondary School (Pdf)
• VFA Requirement Forecast Report for Centennial Secondary School (Pdf)
• Appendix 11
• School Profile for Quinte Secondary School (Pdf)
• School Profile for Moira Secondary School (Pdf)
• School Profile for Centennial Secondary School (Pdf)
• Appendix 12
• Public Meeting Agenda, June 19, 2017 (Pdf)
• Appendix 13
• Board Meeting Update #144