Director’s Message
Much work has been completed over the last year to ensure we are meeting our mission to best prepare students for the world that awaits them after graduation. Educators and support staff have worked diligently to promote critical thinking and student inquiry while closing achievement gaps to ensure everyone can achieve success.
We began the new school year focused on developing our new strategic plan to help guide our actions over the next five years. Through a comprehensive consultation process, we received feedback from more than 2,700, who shared with us their vision for Limestone.
Chair’s Message
The third year of our four-year term was indeed a milestone year for Limestone. Our Board of Trustees remained focused on student achievement and well-being and making decisions that benefit the entire district. We are proud of the work we have completed with our staff colleagues and community partners to ensure that all of our students have equal opportunities to reach their maximum potential.
Working closely with Senior Staff, the Board directed resources in a manner that best supports staff’s operational priorities and the renewed vision and values of Trustees. As part of the development of the Board’s new strategic plan, Trustees created a new vision statement – Together we embrace and foster engaging and innovative learning where everyone achieves success and well-being.
Our Strategic Priorities
School boards in Ontario are required to develop an overarching, high-level plan help boards to reach the goals of the Ministry of Education’s Achieving Excellence: A Renewed Vision for Education in Ontario, to foster public confidence in education, to create coherence and cohesion for the system, to ensure equity of access and opportunity for all students, and to provide opportunities for shared leadership and encourage a collective growth mindset.
About Our District
The Limestone District School Board offers elementary and secondary students an education that is enriched with diverse program choices and activities to complement curriculum requirements while supporting achievement, well-being and the overall success of every student.
The Board’s district serves almost 20,000 students across 70 schools and centres covering a geographic area of 7,719 square kilometres across the City of Kingston, the Townships of Central Frontenac, North Frontenac, South Frontenac, Addington Highlands, Loyalist, Stone Mills, the Frontenac Islands and the Town of Greater Napanee.
Our District, By The Numbers
Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)
The Education Quality and Accountability Office, or EQAO, ensures greater accountability and better quality in Ontario’s publicly funded school system. An arm’s-length agency of the provincial government, EQAO provides parents, teachers and the public with accurate and reliable information about student achievement. Schools routinely consider EQAO data along with other information to support student success.
Students in all publicly-funded schools in Ontario are required to write the provincial EQAO assessments of Reading, Writing and Mathematics in Grades 3 and 6, while students who take Grade 9 Applied or Academic Mathematics are required to write the provincial assessment at the end of their semester of study. The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) measures whether or not students are meeting the minimum standard for literacy across all subjects up to the end of Grade 9. Successful completion of the literacy test is one of the requirements to earn an Ontario Secondary School Diploma.
Results are highlighted in the graphs below.
Grade 10 Ontario Secondary School Literacy Tests
*EQAO did not include students who attempted to complete the online test and then elected to complete the Ontario Literacy Course
Grade 9 Mathematics
Percentage of Students at or above Provincial Standard
Percentage of Students at or above Provincial Standard
Grade 6 Reading/Writing/Mathematics
Grade 3 Reading/Writing/Mathematics
