20+ years of dedicated research and the latest information on independent schooling.
Is private schooling right for your family?
A comprehensive review of your school options
Core educational controversies
The best school is the one that fits your child’s needs
How to get into the school of your choice
Details on costs and advice on minimizing them
The annual Our Kids Private School Guide is Canada’s most comprehensive national listing of leading private and independent schools. From preschool to secondary, detailed profiles allow you to compare schools based on type, curriculum, and academic delivery.
Essential updates and our best hand-picked content. Sent straight to your inbox, free.
What does a school do well? How does leadership interact with faculty? What do current parents like best, and where do they feel it can improve?
Each title in our signature series of in-depth reviews offers objective insight into the programs, facilities, traditions, and administration of a particular school, all informed by interviews with those who know it best: administrators, faculty, students, and parents.
"A powerful platform, a trusted one-stop shop, and a virtual school-placement consultant for families."
— Chantal Kenny, education consultant and former executive director of admissions at Upper Canada College
These schools offer generous financial packages to qualifying families
Find schools offering aid
Customize your school search with insights unique to your child's traits
Create a child profile
Get information on expos, open houses, information nights and more.
View all school events
Pick the path that best describes your child's situation
By Glen Herbert
Stuart Grainger has been the headmaster at Trinity College since 2004, one of a long line of impressive leaders. Where the earliest head masters were very much leaders of their time (the school’s first, Charles Badgley, took boys out to dig for fossils, per the Victorian craze for natural history) [Full Article]
Maria Montessori wanted kids to be kids, allowing them to learn in ways that were social and engaging. She would have loved the York School. [Full Article]
For many educators it’s been a struggle to meet the requirements of the new Ontario coding curriculum. What if they didn’t have to? [Full Article]
Think you can't afford private school? You may want to look again. Canadian independent schools are becoming increasingly accessible as more of them beef up their financial aid and scholarship programs in an effort to attract the best and brightest, regardless of financial background. [Full Article]
Private school tuition costs range widely depending on two essential factors: where the school is located and what type of private school it is: and it may surprise you, in some cases. [Full Article]
You want to give your child the best but you also have income constraints to think of. So how do you choose between private schools versus public schools? Put another way, how do you decide private education is really worth it? [Full Article]
