Students and Faculty
Dunlop is an elementary school in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board serving 250 pre-Kindergarten to Grade 6 students from the South Keys and Greenboro communities in Ottawa. Students represent a diverse background of countries and languages, including Arabic, Cantonese, Punjabi, Croatian and Tamil. Middle French Immersion students go to Featherston Drive P.S. while grade 6 graduates attend Roberta Bondar Public School for Grades 7 and 8.
Dunlop has a faculty of 16.75 teachers, many of whom have additional or specialist qualifications in special education, English as a Second Language, Brailling, signing, science, physical education, computers, and the arts. The school mission statement is "Dunlop School will help each child develop within a safe, caring, child-centred environment, the attitudes, skills, and knowledge necessary to become life-long learners, in a rapidly changing word."
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