Parents and students have a lot to weigh before making a decision. Selective admission helps make the grade With their crisp uniforms, their impressive rolls of illustrious Old Boys and Girls and their commanding cost and admission requirements, private schools exude the kind of confidence you would expect from the institutions at the top. Although the Fraser Institute has already issued secondary school report cards for three other provinces, it is impossible to compare Ontario's performance with the others because the provincial high-school systems vary so widely. Overall, they had an average rating of 6.2 points over five years, on par with other high schools. Boys will be boys Each year, girls score higher marks in advanced-level courses.
Girls consistently outperform boys in high-school classrooms across Ontario.
No book on sex is complete without an account of those who don't get any, and no discussion of formal education should omit the many citizens who mostly lack it, such as me. In 1950, I was 18 years old and concluding my career as the most dismal academic failure I had ever met. Low scores do not explain all Northern Ontario schools fared poorly in the Fraser Institute report card, with isolation, high teacher turnover, small student populations and socio-economic factors combining to keep their rankings low. Greater Toronto Diverse rankings for diverse schools The Greater Toronto region dominates the Fraser Institute's report card on Ontario's high schools, with a strong presence at the top of the list, including eleven of the 16 schools tied at first place with a perfect 10 score. They all get 10 points out of a possible 10.