L’École catholique celebrates 25 years of smiles

Ontario’s eight Frenchlanguage Catholic school boards and the Association franco-ontarienne des conseils scolaires catholiques (AFOCSC) are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year! To mark this important milestone, L’École catholique has prepared various activities for students and staff, including a highly original competition that will bring out the beautiful smiles of its school community, which is at the heart of these celebrations: 25 years of smiles!

Today, Ontario’s Frenchlanguage Catholic school boards have more than 77,000 students, employ over 11,200 staff members, and include some 300 schools, in which more than 180 childcare services operate.

“The Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE) along with our province’s seven other French-language Catholic school boards were established in 1998, finally giving Catholic Francophones the right to manage their own schools,” said Johanne Lacombe, Chair of the CECCE. “L’École catholique has been proudly overseeing the development, vitality and growth of French-language Catholic education in Ontario for 25 years.”