Public Education. Public Accountability.
An independent public record of what school boards publish, read against the rules they are required to follow.
The 2026 Board Report Card is public: results for all 72 Ontario district school boards on codes of conduct, bullying prevention and intervention, and accessibility documents, beside each board’s Director of Education pay and EQAO results. This is the first round of reviews. The boards will be reviewed again in January 2027.
The board’s own documents
Each result rests on what the board publishes on its own website, as captured on the date of the review.
One documented method
Each review applies one documented, repeatable method. The method and criteria are available upon request.
Applied consistently
Where a result turned on a judgement, it was decided against written rules, so the same wording is scored the same way at each board reviewed. File measurements were made by machine on the live file.
Selected requirements
The requirements tested are not the whole of any instrument. Results are research findings about published documents, not compliance verdicts.
School Board Research accepts no funding from any school board, ministry, union, or government body. The work answers to the evidence, and to the families it affects.
See your board’s results and act
Your board’s report card shows each result beside the board’s own words. Plain-language articles explain what the documents show, and a step-by-step guide covers raising it with your board and the Ministry.
Where policy meets practice
Each result is tied to the specific provincial requirement and the date the board’s website was reviewed. A board that considers a result wrong can respond through the board response form. The next review is in January 2027.
Where board documents and provincial policy differ
The sector results, which name no board, went to the Minister of Education and the Minister for Seniors and Accessibility on 15 October 2026. The letters show which requirements are affected and across how many boards.
2026 Results
The first round of reviews read the documents Ontario’s 72 district school boards publish on their websites against selected requirements of a provincial instrument. Each requirement is scored met or not met, with no partial credit. All 72 boards will be reviewed again in mid-January 2027, and the result published beside the 2026 figures.
2026 Review
Code of Conduct (PPM 128)
No board met all of the selected PPM 128 requirements tested. The requirements in force since 2019 are met by most boards; the requirements added in 2024 are met by few, and two of them by none.
2026 Review
Bullying Prevention and Intervention (PPM 144)
No board met all of the selected PPM 144 requirements tested. A board plan was found at 28 boards and a board policy at 29; 25 boards publish neither.
2026 Review
Accessibility (AODA)
No board met all of the selected requirements tested under the AODA and the Integrated Accessibility Standards. Of the 138 policies, plans and status reports posted as PDFs, 111 fail at least one measured accessibility check.
Board Report Card
Director pay and EQAO results
Each board’s snapshot: Director of Education pay since 2017, EQAO Grade 3 and Grade 6 results by sex, enrolment, and the result of each 2026 review. Every figure is drawn from a public record named on the card.
Election 2026
Trustee candidates and their answers
The 2026 Ontario trustee candidates, board by board, with their answers to one question on good governance.
Articles
What the documents show
Plain-language articles on enrolment, Director pay, EQAO, school climate surveys and the policy reviews, with the data behind each one.
The CPAT Framework
The Computational Policy Audit Toolkit applies one documented, repeatable method to each review: systematic collection, source-quality scoring, structured determination, and verification under a documented protocol.
The method is documented. Analytical choices and their limits are recorded. Deviations are logged. The result is work built to withstand scrutiny, including from the institutions it examines. The method and criteria are available upon request.
01 COLLECT one documented method 02 QUALIFY source-quality scoring 03 AUDIT structured determinations 04 VERIFY documented review gates 05 ARCHIVE documented, versioned record