Your child’s success and security is our raison d’être. We believe that every child can reach their full potential and develop the skills and values necessary to assume their place as a citizen of the world.
Open House for elementary schools
Register your child today
Schedule an appointment for a personal tour in any of our elementary schools! Come meet our staff, tour the school and learn more about our programs and services.
- École publique de la Rivière-des-Français: February 9 from 5:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- École publique de Thunder Bay: February 8 at 5:00 p.m.
- École publique des Villageois : February 7
Is your school is not listed above? Contact the school directly to make an appointment.
Open House for high schools
Come meet our staff, tour the school and learn more about our programs and services.
- École secondaire de la Rivière-des-Français: February 9 from 5:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- École secondaire Villa Française des Jeunes : le 7 février
Is your school is not listed above? Contact the school directly to make an appointment.
Register your child between January 23 and 27!
It’s easy as ABC! Complete this online registration form and we will contact you to finalize your child’s full registration.
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Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l’Ontario (CSPGNO) has 15 public elementary schools and 8 public secondary schools which are located in communities such as Greater Sudbury, Noëlville, Markstay, Elliot Lake, Blind River, Sault Ste. Marie, Wawa, Dubreuilville, Marathon, Manitouwadge, Longlac and Thunder Bay.
Conseil scolaire du Grand Nord students are at the very heart of every decision made by the Board. The dynamic learning environment is designed to help each student reach his or her full potential. The rigorous programs and specialized services have been developed to offer each student the education that he or she needs to develop academically, physically, emotionally, culturally and socially.
Conseil scolaire du Grand Nord offers French public education from full-day junior (4 years old) and senior (5 years old) kindergarten to grade 12. Our school board strives to create a completely French-speaking milieu in its schools where the wealth and cultural diversity of the French-language heritage is valued.
Upon graduation, students can expect to be highly proficient in French and become an integrated part of the Francophone culture and community. They will also be highly proficient in English and will be able to pursue postsecondary studies and work in either official language.
Who can register?
Children of French-language rights holders can attend a French public school. This right is granted under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is recognized in the Ontario Education Act.
According to Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the following people can attend a French-language school:
- All children of a parent whose first language learned and still understood is French;
- All children of a parent who received his or her primary school instruction in Canada in French;
- All children whose sibling has received or is receiving primary or secondary school instruction in Canada in French.
In order to be admitted to an elementary school, the pupil must:
- Have reached the age of 4 years by December 31 of the current school year to be registered in junior kindergarten
- Have reached the age of 5 years by December 31 of the current school year to be registered in senior kindergarten
- Have reached the age of 6 years by December 31 of the current school year to be registered in Grade 1
Please note that registrations at Conseil scolaire du Grand Nord elementary and secondary schools are accepted at all times.
All students are welcome!
Conseil scolaire du Grand Nord prides itself in its accessibility and strives to reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity that makes up its community. Therefore, those who are not French-language right-holders can request that their child attend a French-language school.
All interested parents or guardians must submit a request to the school principal and ask for an admissions committee meeting, as stipulated in subsections 289 (1) and 302 (1) of the Ontario Education Act. The committee will assess the child’s skills in French to determine if he/she understands, speaks, reads and writes in French at his/her age and grade level. The child will also be assessed in his mother tongue. This is to evaluate the child’s linguistic comfort level with languages rather than academic knowledge.