SCHOOLSNAPSHOT
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STUDENT:FACULTY
840 STUDENTS
AVG. CLASS SIZE 45% 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.
375 BOARDING STUDENTS
61 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
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• 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 and Thailand.
• 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, lead by our Director of Wellbeing.
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 840 students from 61 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.
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.
• 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 Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS)
• National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
ACADEMICS
• Student-centred, inquiry-based learning.
• Learning Centre and individualized academic support.
• Guidance and University Counselling (SAT test centre).
• Ridley is a Cambridge Testing Centre.
• 150+ academic course offerings.
• 25 IB course options.
• Additional languages offered: French, Spanish, German and Mandarin.
• Large number of IB offerings in Group 3 (Business & Management, Economics, Environmental Systems, History and Psychology) and Group 6 (Film, Music and Visual Arts).
OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• All students earn the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD). Grades reported in percentages.
• Students taking the full IB programme also earn an IB Diploma. Grades reported on a 7-point scale.
• Students taking IB courses, but not the IB Diploma Programme, earn individual certificates and the OSSD.
• Students in Grade 10 also earn the IB MYP Diploma. Grades reported on an 7-point scale.
• All IB and MYP grades are translated into percentages for the OSSD transcript.
2024 IB DIPLOMA RESULTS
Ridley has an “open access” policy: All Grade 11 students are able to pursue the IB Diploma Programme, either as a selection of courses or the full Diploma.
• Ridley College’s IB score is above the International World Standard.
• Highest score awarded to a candidate: 45
• Number of IB Diploma candidates: 39
• Number of course candidates: 84
• 92% pass rate.
CLASS OF 2024 GRAD SURVEY RESULTS
• 100% felt academically prepared for postsecondary studies.
• 95% received an offer to one of their top 3 choice universities.
• Graduates received over $3.3M in scholarships from postsecondary institutions.
UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES
Over the past three years, our graduates have matriculated to over 100 prestigious universities and colleges worldwide, including:
Canada
Brock University
Carleton University
Dalhousie University
Huron University
McGill University
McMaster University
Mount Allison University
Queen’s University
St. Francis Xavier University
Toronto Metropolitan University
University of British Columbia University of Guelph
University of Ottawa
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
Western University
Wilfrid Laurier University
York University
United Kingdom
Bath University
City, University of London
Imperial College London
King’s College London
London School of Economics
Newcastle University
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
University College London
University of Bath
University of Cambridge
University College Dublin
University of Edinburgh
University of Leeds
University of Manchester
University of Oxford
University of St. Andrews
University of Warwick
United States
Berklee College of Music
Boston University
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
George Washington University
Johns Hopkins University
Miami University
New York University
Northeastern University
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Pratt Institute
Princeton University
Rhode Island School of Design
Rutgers University
UC Irvine
UC Los Angeles
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Vanderbilt University
Yale University
International
Amsterdam University College
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Glion University
IE University, Madrid
Maastricht University
University College Dublin
University of Hong Kong
University of Navarra
For a full matriculation list, search for University Counselling on our website.