Limestone District School Board (LDSB) is a public district school board encompassing the City of Kingston and the counties of Frontenac and Lennox and Addington in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The board was founded in a 1998 provincial reorganization of Ontario school boards, and was an amalgamation of the former Frontenac County and Lennox and Addington County Boards of Education. The board's chair for 2011-2012 is Helen Chadwick. LDSB serves 19,206 students at 64 schools with 2,200 employees in the townships of Central Frontenac, Addington Highlands, North Frontenac, South Frontenac, Loyalist and Stone Mills, as well as the Town of Greater Napanee and the City of Kingston.
As of September 1, 2012 the board will operate 53 elementary schools, 11 secondary schools and the Limestone School of Community Education. The community served by each school is indicated in the list below after each schools name. Some students may attend a school outside of the area they reside so that they may attend a special program. The school board is expecting declining enrolment, particularly of secondary students, until about 2016. A new Full-Day Kindergarten program is expanding elementary enrolment.
The Board of Trustees of the Limestone Board have agreed to build two new elementary schools (opening Fall 2012) and one K-12 high school within the district. These schools will be built in the Pittsburgh District of the City of Kingston, in the south end of the Town of Napanee and in Sharbot Lake. A number of existing elementary schools in the district will be closed when these new consolidated schools open. Each new elementary school will have an enrolment of about 800 students.
Program and Accommodation Review Committees (PARC) for Central Kingston and Kingston North presented reports in spring 2012 with respect to possible changes to elementary and secondary school accommodation. Senior staff will make further recommendations based on these reports for consideration by the Board of Trustees in 2013. Public concerns have arisen about the possible creation of a "school desert" in the central part of Kingston as a result of school closures that may be approved by Trustees.
Limestone's Board of Trustees are elected officials responsible for the operation of public schools in the district. Trustees are the critical political link between community and school boards. They ensure public schools meet the diverse needs of students in their community. They are elected by the public school taxpayers every four years, during municipal elections and are directly accountable to the community. The current nine-member Board will serve until November 30, 2014. Trustees are elected by geographic electoral areas within the area administered by the school board. The Board also has two Student Trustees representing urban and rural secondary schools. They serve a one-year term and are elected by the Limestone District Inter-School Student Council each spring.
Read more about Limestone District School Board: Strategic Goals of The Limestone District School Board, Board of Trustees and Board Committees, School Transportation Consortium, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
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