TORONTO—The share of Ontario students attending independent schools increased 24.5 per cent over a 15-year period, despite not receiving any financial support from the provincial government, according to a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“For their children’s education, parents in Ontario are increasingly choosing options outside the public school system,” said Angela MacLeod, a policy analyst with the Fraser Institute’s Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education and co-author of Where Our Students are Educated: Measuring Student Enrolment in Canada, 2017.