Guelph

Renting Near John McCrae Public School

John McCrae Public School is a Public elementary school teaching JK to 8, Guelph, run by the Upper Grand DSB. The Ministry of Education reports 545 students enrolled. Everything below is public data, with the source and year beside it.

Public elementary schoolGrades JK-8EnglishUpper Grand DSB

At a glance

545

Students enrolled

Ministry figure, 2024–2025

JK-8

Grades

Elementary

Licensed child care within 2 km

Provincial licence register

1.1 km

Nearest GO station

Guelph Central GO, straight line

At 545 students it is larger than about 85% of Guelph's elementary schools, whose median is 390. That is a Ministry headcount for one school year, not a class size.

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: John McCrae Public School
School board: Upper Grand DSB (opens Upper Grand DSB in a new tab)
Type: Public elementary school
Grade range: JK-8
Language of instruction: English
Address: 189 Water St, Guelph, Ontario, N1G1B3
Phone: 519-824-0028
Email: johnmccrae.ps@ugdsb.on.ca
School website: www.ugdsb.ca/jmc (opens John McCrae Public School in a new tab)
Ministry school number (BSID): 284254
Date opened: 01/09/1969

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.

Assessment	This school	Ontario	3-year change
Grade 3 Reading	80%	74%	+12 pts
Grade 3 Writing	80%	65%	+32 pts
Grade 3 Mathematics	72%	64%	+21 pts
Grade 6 Reading	97%	86%	+5 pts
Grade 6 Writing	100%	85%	+5 pts
Grade 6 Mathematics	84%	51%	+15 pts

Grade 3 · Reading

80%met the standard

Ontario: 74%

Grade 3 · Writing

80%met the standard

Ontario: 65%

Grade 3 · Mathematics

72%met the standard

Ontario: 64%

Grade 6 · Reading

97%met the standard

Ontario: 86%

Beside comparable schools

The province mixes every board, setting and language system together. These medians are drawn from schools sitting the same assessment in the same year, at the same level, in the same language system — so they compare like with like.

Grade 3 · Reading

80% met the standard here — 2.5 points below the median of 82.5% across the 28 Upper Grand DSB elementary schools that reported this assessment, and 2 points below the median of 82% across the 40 publicly funded elementary schools in Guelph that reported it.

Grade 3 · Writing

80% met the standard here — 8.5 points above the median of 71.5% across the 28 Upper Grand DSB elementary schools that reported this assessment, and 9.5 points above the median of 70.5% across the 40 publicly funded elementary schools in Guelph that reported it.

Grade 3 · Mathematics

72% met the standard here — about the same as the median of 71.5% across the 28 Upper Grand DSB elementary schools that reported this assessment, and about the same as the median of 72% across the 40 publicly funded elementary schools in Guelph that reported it.

Grade 6 · Reading

97% met the standard here — 3 points above the median of 94% across the 28 Upper Grand DSB elementary schools that reported this assessment, and 3.5 points above the median of 93.5% across the 40 publicly funded elementary schools in Guelph that reported it.

Grade 6 · Writing

100% met the standard here — 7 points above the median of 93% across the 28 Upper Grand DSB elementary schools that reported this assessment, and 8 points above the median of 92% across the 40 publicly funded elementary schools in Guelph that reported it.

Grade 6 · Mathematics

84% met the standard here — 14 points above the median of 70% across the 28 Upper Grand DSB elementary schools that reported this assessment, and 20 points above the median of 64% across the 40 publicly funded elementary schools in Guelph that reported it.

Each figure is a median, not an average, and each cohort counts only the schools that published a result for that exact assessment in 2024–2025. Cohorts of fewer than 10 schools are not shown, because a median over a handful of schools moves too much to mean anything.

How to read this

EQAO assessed 6 measures at this school — reading, writing and mathematics, sat in Grades 3 and 6. Each is one 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 English7%
Students new to Canada from a non-English-speaking country1%
Students receiving special education services8%
Students identified as gifted3%
School-aged children living in low-income households7%
Students whose parents have no degree, diploma or certificate3%

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

The neighbourhood around it

John McCrae Public School is close to these Guelph neighbourhoods, measured in a straight line from each area's centre.

Licensed child care nearby

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

Ymca Of Three Rivers Child Care - John Mccrae
0.1 km
Child Care Centre · English
189 Water Street, Guelph
Before school · After school
Royal City Co-Operative Preschool Inc.
0.6 km
Child Care Centre · English
87 Dean Avenue, Guelph
Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day)
Guelph Montessori School
0.7 km
Child Care Centre · English
151 Waterloo Avenue, Guelph
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day)
Montessori Academy Learning Centre Inc.
0.8 km
Child Care Centre · English
286 Water Street, Guelph
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · Before school · After school
Noah'S Ark Childcare
1.2 km
Child Care Centre · English
95 Crimea Street, Guelph
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Ymca Of Three Rivers Child Care - Central
1.2 km
Child Care Centre · English
97 Dublin Street, Guelph
Before school · After school
Jack & Jill Day Nursery
1.4 km
Child Care Centre · English
32 Arnold Street, Guelph
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day)
La Garderie De L'Arc-En-Ciel
1.5 km
Child Care Centre · French
221 Scottsdale Drive, Guelph
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · After school

All 15 licensed facilities within 2 km

Lilliput Land Co-Operative Nursery School — 161 Norfolk Street1.5 km
Workside Early Childhood Education Centre — 99 Woolwich Street1.5 km
Ymca Of Three Rivers Child Care - Paisley — 406 Paisley Road1.5 km
Ela - Sacred Heart — 125 Huron Street1.7 km
Wellington Early Learning Centres - Sacred Heart — 125 Huron Street1.7 km
Campus Child Care Co-Operative Of Guelph Inc. — 2 South Ring Road1.9 km
University Of Guelph Child Care And Learning Centre — 125 Arboretum Road2 km

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 1.1 km in a straight line
Local transit: Guelph Transit

The 1.1 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 John McCrae Public School does not assign a child to it: the attendance area belongs to Upper Grand District School Board, it changes, and placement depends on programme, grade and capacity. This school teaches JK-8, 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.

UGDSB — The English public board for Guelph, Wellington County and Dufferin County. (opens Upper Grand District School Board in a new tab)

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Other schools nearby

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

Common questions

Which board runs John McCrae Public School?

John McCrae Public School is Public elementary school operated by Upper Grand DSB, teaching JK to 8. Every detail on this page comes from the Ontario Ministry of Education's published school information for 2024–2025.

Does renting near John McCrae Public School guarantee a place at the school?

No. Attendance areas are set by Upper Grand DSB 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 John McCrae Public School?

The Ministry reports 545 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 John McCrae Public School show?

EQAO publishes the percentage of students who met the provincial standard in each assessment. In 2024–2025, 80% met the standard in Grade 3 reading here, against 74% 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 John McCrae Public School?

15 licensed child care facilities sit 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

School information and student demographics, 2024–2025 (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab) — Ontario Ministry of Education. 2024–2025 school year. Updated annual (the ministry lists the dataset as updated monthly; a new school year is added once a year). Retrieved September 4, 2026. Open Government Licence – Ontario (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
Ontario public school contact information, August 2026 (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab) — Ontario Ministry of Education. August 2026. Updated monthly. Retrieved September 4, 2026. Open Government Licence – Ontario (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
Licensed child care facilities in Ontario, July 2026 (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab) — Ontario Ministry of Education. 31 July 2026 snapshot. Updated monthly. Retrieved September 4, 2026. Open Government Licence – Ontario (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

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