Westdale, Hamilton
Renting Near Dalewood Senior Public School
Dalewood Senior Public School is a Public elementary school teaching 6 to 8 in Westdale, Hamilton, run by the Hamilton-Wentworth DSB. The Ministry of Education reports 290 students enrolled. Everything below is public data, with the source and year beside it.
At a glance
At 290 students it is smaller than about 85% 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
- Dalewood Senior Public School
- Type
- Public elementary school
- Grade range
- 6-8
- Language of instruction
- English
- Address
- 1150 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S1C2
- Phone
- 905-528-8631
- dalewood@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)
- 132020
- 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 6 Reading | 79% | 86% | +2 pts |
| Grade 6 Writing | 78% | 85% | -3 pts |
| Grade 6 Mathematics | 43% | 51% | +4 pts |
Grade 6 · Reading
Ontario: 86%
Grade 6 · Writing
Ontario: 85%
Grade 6 · Mathematics
Ontario: 51%
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 6 Reading | 79% | 80.5% (66) | 85% (115) |
| Grade 6 Writing | 78% | 80.5% (66) | 85% (115) |
| Grade 6 Mathematics | 43% | 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
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 country5%
- Students receiving special education services10%
- Students identified as gifted0%
- School-aged children living in low-income households15%
- Students whose parents have no degree, diploma or certificate0%
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
Dalewood Senior Public School sits inside Westdale, using the City of Hamilton's own boundary for that area.
Licensed child care nearby
8 licensed facilities within 2 km, closest first. A licence is not a vacancy — ask each operator about waiting lists.
Hamilton Hebrew Academy
0.3 kmChild Care Centre · English
60 Dow Avenue, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Orange Seeds Montessori Hamilton
0.4 kmChild Care Centre · English
1140 King Street, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Westdale Co-Operative Preschool
0.7 kmChild Care Centre · English
99 North Oval, Hamilton
Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day)
Temple Playhouse Enrichment School
1 kmChild Care Centre · English
215 Cline Avenue, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · Before school · After school
Kids & Company Hamilton
1.3 kmChild Care Centre · English
701 Main Street, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Wee Watch Enriched Home Child Care - Stoney Creek
1.9 kmHome Child Care Agency · English
60 King St W, Stoney Creek
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · Extended hours(more than 12 hours) · Flexible Hours(e.g. shifts · evenings) · Before school · After school · Overnight · Weekend
Li'L Ninjas Childcare
1.9 kmChild Care Centre · English
407 Charlton Avenue, Hamilton
Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · Before school · After school
My Little Sand Castle
2 kmChild Care Centre · English
565 Sanatorium Rd, Hamilton
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 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 3.6 km in a straight line
- Local transit
- HSR (Hamilton Street Railway)
- Transit stops in Westdale
- 35 HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops inside the boundary
The 3.6 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 Dalewood Senior Public 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 6-8, 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.
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.
0.6 km · Catholic elementary school
Canadian Martyrs Catholic Elementary School
Grades JK-8 · 185 students
1 km · Public secondary school
Westdale Secondary School
Grades 9-12 · 1,525 students
1.1 km · Public elementary school
Cootes Paradise Public School
Grades JK-5 · 565 students
1.3 km · Catholic secondary school
St. Mary Catholic Secondary School
Grades 9-12 · 935 students
1.7 km · Public elementary school
École élémentaire Georges-P-Vanier
Grades 7-8
1.7 km · Public secondary school
École secondaire Georges-P-Vanier
Grades 9-12 · 85 students
Common questions
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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
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