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Renting Near Dundas Valley Secondary School

Dundas Valley Secondary School is a Public secondary school teaching 9 to 12 in Dundas, Hamilton, run by the Hamilton-Wentworth DSB. The Ministry of Education reports 810 students enrolled. Everything below is public data, with the source and year beside it.

Public secondary schoolGrades 9-12EnglishHamilton-Wentworth DSB

At a glance

810
Students enrolled
Ministry figure, 2024–2025
9-12
Grades
Secondary
4
Licensed child care within 2 km
Provincial licence register
8.7 km
Nearest GO station
Hamilton GO Centre, straight line

At 810 students it is smaller than about 80% of Hamilton's secondary schools, whose median is 1,257.5. 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
Dundas Valley Secondary School
School board
Hamilton-Wentworth DSB (opens Hamilton-Wentworth DSB in a new tab)
Type
Public secondary school
Grade range
9-12
Language of instruction
English
Address
310 Governor's Road, Dundas, Ontario, L9H5P8
Phone
905-628-2203
Email
dundasvalley@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)
916579
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.

AssessmentThis schoolOntario3-year change
Grade 9 Mathematics58%58%-7 pts
Grade 10 Literacy test (OSSLT)86%85%+4 pts

Grade 9 · Mathematics

58%met the standard

Ontario: 58%

Grade 10 · Literacy test (OSSLT)

86%met the standard

Ontario: 85%

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.

AssessmentThis schoolHamilton-Wentworth DSB medianHamilton median
Grade 9 Mathematics58%48% (13)50.5% (20)
Grade 10 Literacy test (OSSLT)86%83% (13)84% (20)

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

These are results for the Grade 9 mathematics assessment and the literacy test, which a student sits once. Both were reported for this school, for a single 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 English6%
  • Students new to Canada from a non-English-speaking country1%
  • Students receiving special education services26%
  • Students identified as gifted6%
  • School-aged children living in low-income households4%
  • Students whose parents have no degree, diploma or certificate1%

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

Dundas Valley Secondary School sits inside Dundas, using the City of Hamilton's own boundary for that area.

Neighbourhood

Dundas

  • 22,936 residents (2021)
  • 21.9 % rent
  • 7 schools
  • 49 parks
Renting in Dundas →

Licensed child care nearby

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

  • Sir William Osler Ymca Child Care

    0.2 km

    Child Care Centre · English

    330 Governor'S Road, Dundas

    Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Before school · After school

  • Dundas Valley Montessori School

    1.1 km

    Child Care Centre · English

    14 Kemp, Dundas

    Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)

  • St. James Co-Operative Nursery School Of Dundas Inc.

    1.8 km

    Child Care Centre · English

    137 Melville Street, Dundas

    Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day)

  • Umbrella Family - Dundas Central

    1.9 km

    Child Care Centre · English

    73 Melville Street, Dundas

    Before school · After school

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 8.7 km in a straight line
Local transit
HSR (Hamilton Street Railway)
Transit stops in Dundas
96 HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops inside the boundary

The 8.7 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 Dundas Valley Secondary 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 9-12, 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 Dundas Valley Secondary School?
Dundas Valley Secondary School is Public secondary school operated by Hamilton-Wentworth DSB, teaching 9 to 12. Every detail on this page comes from the Ontario Ministry of Education's published school information for 2024–2025.
Does renting near Dundas Valley Secondary 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 Dundas Valley Secondary School?
The Ministry reports 810 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 Dundas Valley Secondary School show?
EQAO publishes the percentage of students who met the provincial standard in each assessment. In 2024–2025, 58% met the standard in Grade 9 mathematics here, against 58% across Ontario. This page shows every assessment the school published results for. They are one year's snapshot, not a ranking.
Which neighbourhood is Dundas Valley Secondary School in?
The school sits inside Dundas, where 21.9% 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 Dundas Valley Secondary School?
4 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

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