Halton District School Board


The Halton District School Board serves public school students throughout Halton Region, including the municipalities of Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville. Its administration area is to the southwest of the city of Toronto. In 2025, it served almost 68,000 students, excluding those in adult, alternative, and Community Education programs.
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History

Education in the former Halton County was previously governed by a framework of boards for various high school districts and public school districts associated with them. In 1967, as a result of initiatives undertaken by then Minister of Education Bill Davis, work was begun to amalgamate all boards on a county-wide level throughout the Province, and such a move was recommended to the Halton County Council that year for its approval. The move was opposed by the southern boards of education in Burlington and Oakville, but that was overruled upon passage of mandatory legislation by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1968.
The Board was constituted as the Halton County Board of Education, which was established on January 1, 1969. When the County was replaced by the Regional Municipality of Halton, the Board became the Halton Board of Education.
As part of the province-wide restructuring of Ontario's school boards as a consequence of the passage of the Fewer School Boards Act, 1997, the English-language Public District School Board No. 20 was created to take over the Region's schools. It was merged with the former Board at the beginning of 1998, and was renamed as the "Halton District School Board" in 1999.
In 2023, the Board was taken to court in a civil case regarding a lawsuit against former school teacher, Barbara Joan Baxter, who convicted of sexually abusing five students when she taught at Pineland Public School.

Schools

The Board operates 76 elementary schools, and 17 secondary schools, which are organized into the following areas:
  • East Area
  • North Area
  • West Area
Secondary school enrolment and Fraser Institute provincial rankings are as follows:
NameAreaEnrolment1-year ranking of 7475-year ranking of 623
Abbey Park High SchoolEast95429
Garth Webb Secondary SchoolEast10923342
Iroquois Ridge High SchoolEast13582512
Oakville Trafalgar High SchoolEast1245119
T. A. Blakelock High SchoolEast11255970
White Oaks Secondary SchoolEast18654336
Acton District High SchoolNorth453338279
Craig Kielburger Secondary SchoolNorth1499175148
Georgetown District High SchoolNorth1654175120
Milton District High SchoolNorth921115120
Aldershot High SchoolWest436156148
Burlington Central High SchoolWest593445279
Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary SchoolWest1425115-
Lester B. Pearson High SchoolWest4166887
M.M. Robinson High SchoolWest740462416
Nelson High SchoolWest9964742
Robert Bateman High SchoolWest797413262

Trustees

Student Trustees

As required by the Ontario Ministry of Education, the following student trustees have been named to serve on the Board:
TermTrustees
2022 - 2023Ethan Ruggiero
Cindy Wang
2021 - 2022Vanditha Widyalankara
Kacy Bao
2020 - 2021Vanditha Widyalankara
Evan Taylor
2019 - 2020Matthew Burnes
Olivia Lau
2018-2019Connor Clark
Kevin Meng
2017-2018Dasha Metropolitansky
Muqtasid Mansoor
2016-2017Dasha Metropolitansky
Zaid Haj Ali
2014-2016Sophie Schneider
Jovan Sahi
2013-2014Allison Zheng
Zoha Khan
2012-2013Shaan Bhambra
Arjun Dhanjal
2011-2012Jason Earl
Rudy Unni
2010-2011Jason Earl
Haniya Khan
2009-2010Laura McVey
Chaitanya Dogra
2008-2009Laura McVey
Nupur Dogra
2007-2008Jason Karmody
Jonathan Yantzi
2006-2007Russell Baker
Simon Beck
2005-2006Amreen Azam

Board of Trustee Chairs & Vice-Chairs

The Halton District School Board's Board of Trustees annually elect its chair and a vice-chair at its Annual Organization Meetings. The current chair of the Halton District School is Margo Shuttleworth and the current vice-chair is Tracey Ehl Harrison.
TermBoard of Trustee ChairBoard of Trustees Vice-Chair
2022 - 2023Margo ShuttleworthTracey Ehl Harrison
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2019
2017 - 2018		Andréa GrebencTracey Ehl Harrison
2016 - 2017
2015 - 2016
2014 - 2015
2013 - 2014		Kelly Amos

Other

The Board also operates the following specialized facilities:
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Programming

The Pathways programme encourages all post-secondary options, from apprenticeship, to college, to university, to the workplace. The Board has also introduced specialist high skills majors and other unique programs for students, including fully online high school credits.
The International Baccalaureate programme is offered at: