Catholic Board of Education

Waterloo Region Catholic District School Board

35 Weber St. W., Unit A
P.O. Box 91116
Kitchener, ON
N2G 4G2

Phone: 519.578.3660
Fax: 519.578.5291
email: info@wcdsb.ca

The Waterloo Catholic District School Board – the corporate body overseeing Waterloo Region’s Catholic Schools – protects and promotes a tradition of education excellence first begun in a one-room schoolhouse 1836. The Waterloo Region Catholic school system is the eighth-largest Catholic school system in Ontario:

• 47 elementary schools (Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8)
• 5 secondary schools (Grade 9 to Grade 12/OAC)
• 2 adult education facilities
• 2.5 million sq. ft. of floor space in schools -- on more than 400 acres of land
• 30,000 elementary, secondary and adult/continuing education students
• Students from more than 114 countries – speaking more than 68 languages
• 3,000 full & part-time staff
• 100,000+ Catholic ratepayers
• 29% of area residents are Roman Catholic
• 26% of area students attend Catholic schools
• 18% of residential taxpayers support Catholic schools
• 32% of local schools are Catholic schools
• $200 million+ annual budget
• $2 million raised for charity since 1998