Talk:Wallaceburg District Secondary School

Notability (2022)

So I looked for sources that discuss this school in some capacity, beyond a trivial mention. Also, this is just what's available online. Obviously that's not the definitive answer to whether or not sources exist, but I'm not going to say "sources may exist". This is what I found:

• This news article is specifically about the school providing a safe space for kids after-hours. I think this could be useful towards demonstrating notability, if there are more sources like this.
• This is more routine coverage because it's what you expect for what would happen if a school was given a bomb threat. I don't think it's really that useful in demonstrating notability, it's more along the lines of increased coverage for a local event that obviously had an impact on the local community at the time (because you can't send your kid to school and because it's generally concerning). But apart from the investigation and arrest, not really that important to the history of the school in general. At least that's the impression I've had so far. It is worth noting that CBC News also reported on this [1].
• This CBC article is about a training program that this school has that allows students to become certified PSWs. I think this could be a source demonstrating notability, along with others ones. CBC is a better source for showing non-local interest, but there's also local news about this [2].
• This is an article about the school's outreach to Indigenous youth [3]

I think these sources could be enough to meet Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). Thus, I'm removing the notability tag on the article. Feel free to discuss this here if you disagree and think it should be re-instated, or to start an AfD discussion. Clovermoss (talk) 04:29, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Major revision (2023)

As more Actiana yearbooks are accessed, the school population, curricular subjects, etc. can be expanded. Mapping teaching subjects to allow for any trends or focus mirroring community or national needs such as agriculture, industry, changing technologies.

Demographics

Insufficient detail to hand (so far) to identify student M:F sex ratios (now M:F:X), percentage First Nations, percentage graduating, or percentage of students going on, and completing university.

School ranking

The 'right-leaning' organisation Fraser Institute produces an annual ranking of secondary schools for Ontario based on nine academic indicators derived from standardized provincial reading, writing and math tests. I have declined to add the scores in the article, until more data is collected and can aid context.

As of Sun 31 Dec 2023, the Institute indicates a score of 4.1/10 and ranking 634/739 (85.7%) for WDSS, indicating ESL 0.9%, special needs 46.9%, and OSSLT count of 224.

Year	Overall score	Notes
2015	4.5
2016	4.4
2017	4.1
2018	3.4
2019	4.1

The Ministry of Education also shows for 2021–2022:

Student Population – 2021-2022 (Preliminary)	School	Province
Percentage of school-aged children who live in lower-income households	17%	18%
Percentage of students whose parents do not have a certificate, diploma or degree	13%	6%
Percentage of students who receive special education services	33%	16%
Percentage of students identified as gifted	0%	1%
Percentage of students whose first language is not English	3%	26%
Percentage of students who are new to Canada from non-English speaking country	0%	5%
Percentage of students whose first language is not French	99%	95%
Percentage of students who are new to Canada from non-French speaking country	0%	6%

It requires some understanding before any interpretations can be offered (e.g. what does 'special education services' needs mean?). –Q8682 (talk) 13:53, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

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