Thames Valley District School Board

The Thames Valley District School Board is a public school board in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
The TVDSB serves an area over 7,000 square kilometres which includes urban, suburban and rural communities. It spans three counties and includes the cities of London, St. Thomas, and Woodstock, plus the towns of Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, and Strathroy-Caradoc, as well as several smaller towns and villages.
As of 2024, the Board administered 160 schools. They also provide alternative education programs for approximately 40,000 students through adult day school, continuing education, general interest, night school and summer school courses.

History

It was created on January 1, 1998, by the amalgamation of the Elgin County Board of Education, The Board of Education for the City of London, Middlesex County Board of Education, and Oxford County Board of Education.
Four future elementary schools in southeast London, southwest London, northwest London, west London, Lucan, Woodstock, and Belmont are currently under construction or are in planning stages. Extensions and renovations to Eagle Heights are currently underway.

Controversies

In 2021, the Thames Valley District School Board was named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit related to the sexually inappropriate behaviour of one of its teachers, Ryan Jarvis. Jarvis filmed at least 27 teenage students with a spy camera while he was an English teacher at H. B. Beal Secondary School. He used a camera concealed in a pen to film his female students' breasts. Jarvis became the first person in Canada to serve jail time for a voyeurism conviction. Jarvis's teaching license was revoked following his conviction. The Thames Valley District School Board was the setting of R v. Jarvis, 2019 SCC 10 a precedent-setting case of voyeurism in Canada.
In 2021, Lawrence Thompson, a custodian at a TVDSB elementary school, was found guilty of four counts of kidnapping and sexual assault of a four-year-old girl. During the investigation in 2018, the school board indicated it would fully cooperate with police and local law enforcement authorities. However, the TVDSB declined to provide a list of schools that the janitor previously worked at.
In 2024, the TVDSB, and several other school boards, came under scrutiny for sending officials on trips and retreats. TVDSB executives attended a retreat at the hotel in the Rogers Centre, where the Toronto Blue Jays play baseball. Though the executives paid for the trip from their own expense accounts, the optics of going on a trip when the board was in a deficit position was enough to cause the provincial government to audit their finances.
Since the scandal broke, Director of education Mark Fisher has been put under paid leave.

Trustees

Current trustees for the 2022-2026 term:

Chair - Beth Mai
Vice Chair - Dave Cripps

Trustee	Wards	City
Sheri Polhill	1, 11, 12, 14	London
Lori-Ann Pizzolato	1, 11, 12, 14	London
Marianne Larsen	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	London
Leroy Osbourne	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	London
Beth Mai	7, 8, 9, 10, 13	London
Sherri Moore	7, 8, 9, 10, 13	London
Dave Cripps	Oxford County	Oxford County
Leeanne Hopkins	Oxford County	Oxford County
Arlene Morell	Middlesex County	Middlesex County
Christian Sachs	Middlesex County	Middlesex County
Meagan Ruddock	Elgin County	Elgin County
Bruce Smith	Elgin County	Elgin County
Carol Antone	All First Nations	N/A
Emily Gyurki	All Elgin, Middlesex, and Oxford County Students '	N/A
Anushka Bist	All London Students '	N/A
Hailee-Rose Hill	All Indigenous Students	N/A

List of schools

The following is a list of the schools administered by the TVDSB and their towns/city:

Public schools

Secondary schools

A. B. Lucas Secondary School – London
Arthur Voaden Secondary School – St. Thomas
B. Davison Secondary School – London
Central Elgin Collegiate Institute – St. Thomas
London Central Secondary School – London
Clarke Road Secondary School – London
College Avenue Secondary School – Woodstock
East Elgin Secondary School – Aylmer
Glencoe District High School – Glencoe
Glendale High School – Tillsonburg
H. B. Beal Secondary School – London
Huron Park Secondary School – Woodstock
Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute – Ingersoll
London South Collegiate Institute – London
Lord Dorchester Secondary School – Dorchester
Medway High School – Arva
Montcalm Secondary School – London
North Middlesex District High School – Parkhill
Oakridge Secondary School – London
Parkside Collegiate Institute – St. Thomas
Saunders Secondary School – London
Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School – London
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School – London
Strathroy District Collegiate Institute – Strathroy-Caradoc
Thames Valley Alternative Secondary School
West Elgin Secondary School – West Lorne
Westminster Secondary School - London
Woodstock Collegiate Institute – Woodstock