Introduction
Find the Schools Near You
Your choice of public school is determined by where you live. Each school has a catchment area. Some areas have more than one school to choose from.
To determine which schools you can choose from – go to the Markham School Map, zoom into your area or the area that you are interested in. You will be able to see all the schools nearest to that area.
When you have your list, you can find the schools in our lists below and find out more about them and their ranking in Ontario.
If you are moving to Markham and are still deciding which area to choose – click here for an A-Z list of each school and their boundary maps to help you narrow your choices down.
A Word about School Rankings - What They Can Tell You
(and what they can't!)
The rankings here are from the Fraser Institute – a company that has been assessing public school performance in Ontario annually for 20 years.
We encourage you to have a look at each school individually for more information. The reason for this is that sometimes school rankings can be lower for lots of reasons. For example, some schools may be are teaching a higher percentage of special needs children and therefore their exam results may not be the same as other schools. Similarly, some schools may have higher intakes of children who are learning English as a second language. Consequently, lower rankings do not always mean that a school is of lower quality – quite the opposite in fact!
To help you investigate individual schools – here is a more detailed look at all the schools in Markham in an A-Z list. This list includes a breakdown of percentages of special needs children and children for whom English is a second language. Additionally, it includes the number of children enrolled in Grade 6 in the past year. We also urge you to visit the schools in your area as they all have very different missions, values and facilities, which will factor into your choices.
If you would like to locate schools in Markham easily here is a map of all the schools in Markham.
The List
Here is our Markham Secondary Schools Ranking list below. It includes the community location of the school, links to school websites, indicates if the school offers French immersion programmes and if the school is a catholic school or not.
The list is sortable, so if you want to look at all the schools in your area, click on the top box of the ‘Community’ column. Click it twice to invert the list. If you want to just see the highest-ranked schools, click on the top header of the ‘Rank in Ontario’ column. Click twice to see the list inverted with the lowest rank schools………I’m sure you are getting this by now!
Secondary School Rankings in Markham
| SCHOOL | GRADES | COMMUNITY | FRENCH IMMERSION | LINKS | SCORE OUT OF 10 FOR THE 3 R’S | RANK IN ONTARIO OUT OF 739 SCHOOLS | CATHOLIC SCHOOL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BILL HOGARTH SECONDARY SCHOOL | 9-12 | CORNELL | Y | WEBSITE | 8.2 | 42 | N |
| BUR OAK SECONDARY SCHOOL | 9-12 | WISMER | N | WEBSITE | 8.4 | 35 | N |
| FATHER MICHAEL MCGIVNEY CATHOLIC ACADEMY | 9-12 | MIDDLEFIELD | N | WEBSITE | 8.2 | 42 | Y |
| MARKHAM DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL | 9-12 | OLD MARKHAM VILLAGE | N | WEBSITE | 7.5 | 130 | N |
| MARKVILLE SECONDARY SCHOOL | 9-12 | MARKVILLE | N | WEBSITE | 9.4 | 2 | N |
| MIDDLEFIELD COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE | 9-12 | MIDDLEFIELD | N | WEBSITE | 8 | 63 | N |
| PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU HIGH SCHOOL | 9-12 | BERCZY | Y – DUAL | WEBSITE | 8.8 | 12 | N |
| ST AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | 9-12 | CACHET | N | WEBSITE | 8.8 | 12 | Y |
| ST BROTHER ANDRE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | 9-12 | GREENS- BOROUGH | N | WEBSITE | 6.7 | 281 | Y |
