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874 STUDENTS
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42% BOARDING
OUR MISSION: We prepare meaningful and flourishing lives by teaching the habits of mind, body and spirit, and the values needed to lead in a global society.
369 BOARDING STUDENTS
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Since 1889, Ridley has provided students with enriching learning and life-shaping experiences and has prepared them for success at some of the top universities and colleges around the world. With 874 students from 65 countries, the largest boarding programme in Ontario and the third largest in Canada, Ridley College is a truly international, co-educational day and boarding school. Students in Junior Kindergarten through Post-Graduate year are engaged in vibrant, challenging and forward-thinking academic, co-curricular and boarding life programmes. Ridley is proud to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Continuum programme, in addition to the Ontario Secondary School Diploma.
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FACILITIES 90-acre campus in the heart of the beautiful Niagara Region: • Modern classrooms and subject-specific lab space • Dining halls in our Lower School and Upper School buildings.
• Over $3.5 million in Tuition Assistance and Scholarships. • First Visible Wellbeing™ Foundational School in North America (visiblewellbeing.org/). • Focus on Positive Education (PERMA-V model), centred on positive psychology. • Promotion of Physical Literacy, based on scientific evidence relating to the impacts of physical activity, sleep and nutrition on a child’s cognitive process. • Comprehensive boarding life programme for Grades 6-12/PG. • 75+ co-curricular activities in the arts, athletics, leadership and community service. • International service-learning trips to Malawi, Guatemala, Thailand, Canary Islands and Cambodia. • Elite athletics: member of the Ontario Scholastic Basketball Association (OSBA) and supports athletes with university (Canada) and NCAA (USA) recruitment for basketball, ice hockey, rowing and soccer. • Opportunities for creative pursuits in drama and music, as well as visual, digital and spoken arts. • Wide variety of summer day and boarding camps. • Three full-time Social-Emotional Counsellors in our Lower, Middle and Upper School, led by our Director of Wellbeing.
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• Mandeville Theatre • Memorial Chapel • 10 boarding houses • Burgoyne Outdoor Education and Resource Centre • Schmon Health and Wellness Centre providing 24/7 on-site care to all students. • Athletic facilities include: NHL-grade ice surface, yoga and spin studios, fitness centre, ergometer room, competitiongrade squash courts, multiple playing fields, tennis courts, gymnasia and an athletic therapy clinic. • Our newly renovated Iggulden Building features a performance hall, music practice rooms, recording studio, art gallery, ceramics studio, digital makerspace, woodshop and learning commons. ACCREDITATION • Ontario Ministry of Education • International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO): IBO World School since March 2011 • Founding member of Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) • Member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)