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School Programs
There are three schools within W. Ross Macdonald, the
Elementary school, Secondary and the school for students
who are Deafblind. The Elementary school, housed in its own
building connected to the main school has approximately 60 students from
Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8. Classes are capped at 6 up to Grade 4 and
at 8 up to Grade 8. Students are taught the Ontario Curriculum like all other
schools in the province, but with appropriate accommodations and
modifications as necessary. With the small class sizes the learning is geared
towards each student, with a strong emphasis being on experiential learning.
Our High School has approximately 100 students and classes are
capped at 10. Students earn credits towards their Ontario Secondary School
Diploma in any of the three streams available to them, leading to the
workplace, college or university. There are a wide variety of programs, with
intensive one-to-one music instruction, auto and wood shop, visual and tactile
art and culinary programs. We also have an excellent co-op and work
experience program, where students are placed throughout the Brantford
community. Our physical and outdoor education programs are enormously
popular as students experience sports and activities that are often completely
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