Buchanan, Hamilton

Renting Near Buchanan Park School

Buchanan Park School is a Public elementary school teaching JK to 6 in Buchanan, Hamilton, run by the Hamilton-Wentworth DSB. The Ministry of Education reports 210 students enrolled. Everything below is public data, with the source and year beside it.

Public elementary schoolGrades JK-6EnglishHamilton-Wentworth DSB

At a glance

210

Students enrolled

Ministry figure, 2024–2025

JK-6

Grades

Elementary

Licensed child care within 2 km

Provincial licence register

2.5 km

Nearest GO station

Hamilton GO Centre, straight line

At 210 students it is smaller than about 95% of Hamilton's elementary schools, whose median is 435. 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: Buchanan Park School
School board: Hamilton-Wentworth DSB (opens Hamilton-Wentworth DSB in a new tab)
Type: Public elementary school
Grade range: JK-6
Language of instruction: English
Address: 30 Laurier Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario, L9C3R9
Phone: 905-387-5212
Email: buchananpark@hwdsb.on.ca
School website: The address the Ministry publishes for this school no longer resolves. Try the board’s site above.
Ministry school number (BSID): 068845
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	71%	74%	+14 pts
Grade 3 Writing	75%	65%	+37 pts
Grade 3 Mathematics	59%	64%	+35 pts
Grade 6 Reading	88%	86%	+13 pts
Grade 6 Writing	88%	85%	+32 pts
Grade 6 Mathematics	62%	51%	+37 pts

Grade 3 · Reading

71%met the standard

Ontario: 74%

Grade 3 · Writing

75%met the standard

Ontario: 65%

Grade 3 · Mathematics

59%met the standard

Ontario: 64%

Grade 6 · Reading

88%met the standard

Ontario: 86%

Beside comparable schools

The province mixes every board, setting and language system together. These medians cover schools sitting the same assessment in the same year, at the same level, in the same language system, so they compare like with like. The number of schools in each cohort is in brackets.

Assessment	This school	Hamilton-Wentworth DSB median	Hamilton median
Grade 3 Reading	71%	68% (75)	74% (124)
Grade 3 Writing	75%	62% (75)	64.5% (124)
Grade 3 Mathematics	59%	55% (75)	62% (124)
Grade 6 Reading	88%	80.5% (66)	85% (115)
Grade 6 Writing	88%	80.5% (66)	85% (115)
Grade 6 Mathematics	62%	39% (66)	45% (115)

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. With fewer than 300 students enrolled, year-to-year movement here reflects small cohorts as much as anything else. 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 English40%
Students new to Canada from a non-English-speaking country15%
Students receiving special education services5%
Students identified as gifted0%
School-aged children living in low-income households15%
Students whose parents have no degree, diploma or certificate5%

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

Buchanan Park School sits inside Buchanan, using the City of Hamilton's own boundary for that area.

Neighbourhood

Buchanan

2,069 residents (2021)
19.6 % rent
2 schools
5 parks

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Licensed child care nearby

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

Umbrella Family At Buchanan Park
0.1 km
Child Care Centre · English
30 Laurier Avenue, Hamilton
Before school · After school
Imagineer'S Early Learning Centre
0.5 km
Child Care Centre · English
430 West 5Th Street, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · After school
Sts. Peter And Paul Before And After School Program
0.7 km
Child Care Centre · English
49 Fennell Avenue, Hamilton
Before school · After school
Talented Tinkers
0.7 km
Child Care Centre · English
89 Sanatorium Road, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Little Learning House Child Care Centre - Allenby Site
0.8 km
Child Care Centre · English
192 Allenby Avenue, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Hillfield Strathallan College
0.8 km
Child Care Centre · English
299 Fennell Avenue, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Infant Jesus Kindergarten & Nursery
0.8 km
Child Care Centre · English
329 Mohawk Road, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Ymca Sacc - Westwood
0.8 km
Child Care Centre · English
9 Lynbrook Drive, Hamilton
Before school · After school

All 21 licensed facilities within 2 km

Ymca Sacc-Norwood Park — 165 Terrace Drive1.1 km
Ymca Sacc - Ridgemount — 65 Hester Street1.3 km
Wildwood By Scenicview Childcare — 689 West 5Th Street1.4 km
Little Peoples Day Care Centre — 510 Mohawk Road1.4 km
Ymca Sacc - Chedoke — 500 Bendamere Avenue1.4 km
Little Learning House Child Care Centre - Fennell Site — 198 Fennell Avenue1.5 km
Umbrella Family - Queensdale — 67 Queensdale Avenue1.5 km
Wee Watch Enriched Home Child Care - Stoney Creek — 60 King St W1.7 km
St. Michael Before And After School Program — 135 Hester Street1.7 km
Lyonsgate Montessori School — 375 Aberdeen Avenue1.7 km
Little Learning House Child Care Centre - Locke Street — 86 Homewood Avenue1.8 km
St. Joseph Before And After School Program — 270 Locke Street1.9 km
Umbrella Family - James Macdonald — 200 Chester Avenue2 km

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

Getting there

Hamilton is served by the HSR bus network, with the most frequent corridors running east–west across the lower city. Two GO stations sit in the city — Hamilton GO Centre downtown and West Harbour GO on the Lakeshore West line — and Aldershot GO just over the Burlington line is a common commuter station too. The escarpment limits north–south routes, so check the actual trip rather than the map distance.

Nearest GO station: Hamilton GO Centre — about 2.5 km in a straight line
Local transit: HSR (Hamilton Street Railway)
Transit stops in Buchanan: 13 HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops inside the boundary

The 2.5 km to Hamilton GO Centre 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 Buchanan Park School does not assign a child to it: the attendance area belongs to Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, it changes, and placement depends on programme, grade and capacity. This school teaches JK-6, 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.

HWDSB — The English public board, and the largest school operator in Hamilton. (opens Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board in a new tab)

What to have ready, and how registration works in Hamilton: renting in Hamilton 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 Buchanan Park School?

Buchanan Park School is Public elementary school operated by Hamilton-Wentworth DSB, teaching JK to 6. Every detail on this page comes from the Ontario Ministry of Education's published school information for 2024–2025.

Does renting near Buchanan Park School guarantee a place at the school?

No. Attendance areas are set by Hamilton-Wentworth 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 Buchanan Park School?

The Ministry reports 210 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 Buchanan Park School show?

EQAO publishes the percentage of students who met the provincial standard in each assessment. In 2024–2025, 71% 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.

Which neighbourhood is Buchanan Park School in?

The school sits inside Buchanan, where 19.6% of households rented at the 2021 Census. The neighbourhood page covers schools, licensed child care, parks and transit inside the municipality's own boundary for that area.

Is there licensed child care near Buchanan Park School?

21 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.
City of Hamilton Open Data — Neighbourhoods (planning units), Parks, HSR Bus Stops, Libraries, Recreation and Community Centres, Addresses (opens City of Hamilton in a new tab) — City of Hamilton. Layers as published (edit dates recorded per layer in the raw manifest). Updated continuous; refetched on each data build. City of Hamilton Open Data Licence (opens City of Hamilton in a new tab)Contains public sector Data made available under the City of Hamilton's Open Data Licence

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