Hamilton

Renting Near Waterdown District High School

Waterdown District High School is a Public secondary school teaching 9 to 12, Hamilton, run by the Hamilton-Wentworth DSB. The Ministry of Education reports 1,140 students enrolled. Everything below is public data, with the source and year beside it.

Public secondary schoolGrades 9-12EnglishHamilton-Wentworth DSB

At a glance

1,140

Students enrolled

Ministry figure, 2024–2025

9-12

Grades

Secondary

Licensed child care within 2 km

Provincial licence register

5 km

Nearest GO station

Aldershot GO, straight line

At 1,140 students it is close to the median size for Hamilton's secondary schools, which 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: Waterdown District High 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: 215 Parkside Drive, Waterdown, Ontario, L8B1B9
Phone: 905-689-6692
Email: waterdowndistrict@hwdsb.on.ca
School website: www.hwdsb.on.ca/waterdown (opens Waterdown District High School in a new tab)
Ministry school number (BSID): 950653
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 9 Mathematics	56%	58%	+1 pts
Grade 10 Literacy test (OSSLT)	90%	85%	+5 pts

Grade 9 · Mathematics

56%met the standard

Ontario: 58%

Grade 10 · Literacy test (OSSLT)

90%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.

Assessment	This school	Hamilton-Wentworth DSB median	Hamilton median
Grade 9 Mathematics	56%	48% (13)	50.5% (20)
Grade 10 Literacy test (OSSLT)	90%	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 English11%
Students new to Canada from a non-English-speaking country2%
Students receiving special education services26%
Students identified as gifted3%
School-aged children living in low-income households3%
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.

Neighbourhood

No mapped neighbourhood for this address

The Ministry gives this school's address in Waterdown. Waterdown has no neighbourhood page here because no municipal boundary is published for it under an open licence — it is listed among the excluded names on the data page.

Rather than attach the nearest mapped area — the closest is kilometres away and the municipality draws no boundary between them — this page leaves the relationship out. Which names have no published boundary, and why, is set out on the data page.

Licensed child care nearby

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

Waterdown District Children'S Centre
0.1 km
Child Care Centre · English
215 Parkside Drive, Waterdown
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · Before school · After school
Flamborough Family Ymca Child Care Centre
0.1 km
Child Care Centre · English
207 Parkside Drive, Waterdown
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Ymca Sacc - Allan A. Greenleaf
0.1 km
Child Care Centre · English
211 Parkside Drive, Waterdown
Before school · After school
Waterdown District School Age Program - Guy Brown Location
0.6 km
Child Care Centre · English
55 Braeheid Avenue, Waterdown
Before school · After school
Brightpath Waterdown
0.8 km
Child Care Centre · English
89 Hamilton Street, Waterdown
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Learning Blocks Montessori School
1 km
Child Care Centre · English
306 Parkside Drive, Waterdown
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Waterdown District School Age Program - Mary Hopkins
1 km
Child Care Centre · English
200 Main Street, Waterdown
Before school · After school
Wee Watch - Oakville
1 km
Home Child Care Agency · English
31 Culotta Drive, Waterdown
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 · Weekend

All 12 licensed facilities within 2 km

Quality Foundations Childcare — 221 Dundas Street1.1 km
Guardian Angels Before And After School Program — 705 Centre Road1.1 km
Guardian Angels Catholic Elementary School Child Care — 705 Centre Road Road1.1 km
Village Children'S Centre Of Waterdown — 132 Dundas Street1.5 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: Aldershot GO — about 5 km in a straight line
Local transit: HSR (Hamilton Street Railway)

The 5 km to Aldershot GO 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 Waterdown District High 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 Waterdown District High School?

Waterdown District High 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 Waterdown District High 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 Waterdown District High School?

The Ministry reports 1,140 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 Waterdown District High School show?

EQAO publishes the percentage of students who met the provincial standard in each assessment. In 2024–2025, 56% 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.

Is there licensed child care near Waterdown District High School?

12 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.

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