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Renting Near Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School

Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School is a Catholic secondary school teaching 9 to 12, Guelph, run by the Wellington CDSB. The Ministry of Education reports 735 students enrolled. Everything below is public data, with the source and year beside it.

Catholic secondary schoolGrades 9-12EnglishWellington CDSB

At a glance

735
Students enrolled
Ministry figure, 2024–2025
9-12
Grades
Secondary
1
Licensed child care within 2 km
Provincial licence register
7 km
Nearest GO station
Guelph Central GO, straight line

School facts

Published by the Ontario Ministry of Education. Fields the Ministry does not publish for this school are shown as such rather than filled in.

Official name
Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School
School board
Wellington CDSB
Type
Catholic secondary school
Grade range
9-12
Language of instruction
English
Address
200 Clair Rd W, Guelph, Ontario, N1L1G1
Phone
519-822-8502
Email
stephen.gulyas@wellingtoncdsb.ca
School website
The address the Ministry publishes for this school no longer resolves. Try the board’s site above.
Ministry school number (BSID)
689661
Date opened
02/09/2003

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–2025) and the Publicly Funded Schools contact list (August 2026). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Data last refreshed September 4, 2026.

EQAO results, 2024–2025

The percentage of students who met the provincial standard in each assessment this school reported, beside the same figure for Ontario. These are results for one school year — not a score, a rank or a prediction.

AssessmentThis schoolOntario3-year change
Grade 9 Mathematics72%58%-2 pts
Grade 10 Literacy test (OSSLT)92%85%-1 pts

Grade 9 · Mathematics

72%met the standard

Ontario: 58%

Grade 10 · Literacy test (OSSLT)

92%met the standard

Ontario: 85%

How to read this

These are results for the Grade 9 mathematics assessment and the literacy test, which a student sits once. Both were reported for this school, for a single cohort in one year. Results are suppressed wherever a cohort is too small to report. This site publishes no ranking or composite score, and a position above or below a median is not a measure of how good a school is: EQAO reports the share of students meeting a standard in one year, and that share tracks the circumstances of the families a school draws from as much as anything the school does.

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–2025), which publishes the Education Quality and Accountability Office’s per-school results. Provincial figures from EQAO’s release of 3 December 2025. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Student population indicators

The Ministry publishes a small set of indicators alongside each school's profile. They describe the student body, not the neighbourhood, and are rounded by the Ministry.

  • Students whose first language is not English12%
  • Students new to Canada from a non-English-speaking country8%
  • Students receiving special education services19%
  • Students identified as gifted0%
  • School-aged children living in low-income households6%
  • Students whose parents have no degree, diploma or certificate2%

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–2025). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Neighbourhood

No mapped neighbourhood for this address

This school's location falls outside every neighbourhood boundary the municipality publishes, so there is no neighbourhood page to link it to. That is a gap in the published boundaries rather than in the school's own record.

Rather than attach the nearest mapped area — the closest is kilometres away and the municipality draws no boundary between them — this page leaves the relationship out. Which names have no published boundary, and why, is set out on the data page.

Licensed child care nearby

1 licensed facility within 2 km, closest first. A licence is not a vacancy — ask each operator about waiting lists.

  • Kids Come First Child Care Centre

    1.9 km

    Child Care Centre · English

    1416 Gordon Street, Guelph

    Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, Licensed child care facilities in Ontario (31 July 2026 snapshot). Locations matched to the City of Guelph’s open address register. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Getting there

Guelph Transit runs a network built around a downtown hub, so cross-town trips often route through the centre. Guelph Central Station downtown carries both GO and VIA trains on the Kitchener corridor, and Highway 401 runs south of the city. Distances here are short, but a transfer can still dominate a journey — check the real trip at the time you would travel.

Nearest GO station
Guelph Central GO — about 7 km in a straight line
Local transit
Guelph Transit

The 7 km to Guelph Central GO is a straight line from this school's Ministry-published coordinates — not a walking or driving time. Check the real trip at the times you travel.

Registering here

Renting near Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School does not assign a child to it: the attendance area belongs to Wellington Catholic District School Board, it changes, and placement depends on programme, grade and capacity. This school teaches 9-12, so confirm the grade you need is offered at the address you are considering. Before- and after-school care is run separately from the school day — the licensed facilities listed above are the operators to contact directly.

WCDSB — The English Catholic board serving Guelph and Wellington County. (opens Wellington Catholic District School Board in a new tab)

What to have ready, and how registration works in Guelph: renting in Guelph with children.

Other schools nearby

Straight-line distance from this school. Useful when you are weighing several addresses at once.

Common questions

Which board runs Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School?
Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School is Catholic secondary school operated by Wellington CDSB, teaching 9 to 12. Every detail on this page comes from the Ontario Ministry of Education's published school information for 2024–2025.
Does renting near Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School guarantee a place at the school?
No. Attendance areas are set by Wellington CDSB and can change, and placement also depends on programme, grade and capacity. Confirm the current attendance area for a specific address with the board before you sign a lease — this site does not publish attendance boundaries.
How big is Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School?
The Ministry reports 735 students for the 2024–2025 school year. Enrolment is published once a year, so it describes that year rather than today's register.
What do the EQAO results for Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School show?
EQAO publishes the percentage of students who met the provincial standard in each assessment. In 2024–2025, 72% met the standard in Grade 9 mathematics here, against 58% across Ontario. This page shows every assessment the school published results for. They are one year's snapshot, not a ranking.
Is there licensed child care near Bishop Macdonell Catholic Secondary School?
1 licensed child care facility sits within 2 km of the school in the Ontario Ministry of Education's licensed child care register (31 July 2026 snapshot). A licence is not a vacancy — contact a centre directly about waiting lists.

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Where this page’s data comes from

Full method notes, refresh cadence and the list of data this site deliberately does not publish are on the data page.