Beaconsfield Junior High
Telephone: (709) 368-0146
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Beaconsfield Junior High School, located in the beautiful Waterford Valley, is a Grade 7-9 school of 472 students. Our school zone includes children who live in Kilbride, Sesame Park, Richmond Hill and east of Topsail Road (including areas such as Hamlyn Road and the vicinity and extending to Anspach Street and Glenview Terrace). Our students normally range in age from 12 years to 15 years old. At the Grade 7 level, we have three Late French Immersion classes with a combined enrollment of 47 students. Also at the Grade 7 level, there are an additional 4 classes of English stream students, which an average class size of 25 students. Similarly at the Grade 8 level, there are two Late French Immersion streams with 19 and 19 students respectively. There are 4 English stream classes at this level with an average of 28 students in each class. At the Grade 9 level, there are two classes of Late French Immersion with 23 and 22 students respectively, and 5 English classes with an average of 25 students per class. There are a total of 20 grade specific homerooms.
Our teaching staff is made up of 34 staff members. In that number, provision is made for a full time Principal, a .75 Assistant Principal who also teaches Physical Education, and a .95 Guidance Counselor. Our school size allows us to have five Department Heads, one in each of the following subject areas: Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, French and Social Studies. Besides coordination duties for their departments, these teachers also teach full-time. We have a .64 Learning Resources person, who is also responsible for technology and two Gr. 9 Language Arts courses. We have a full time Physical Education teacher, a Design Technology teacher, a Home Economics teacher, a Classroom/Choral Music teacher, an Instrumental Music teacher who is also the Art teacher. In our Special Services, we have six Special Education teachers. Beaconsfield has access to Speech Language Pathology services, Hearing and Vision Itinerant services and Educational Psychologist services as needed. |
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