Ontario School Board Educator Counts By Gender And Level

Government of Ontario data reports full-time equivalent educator counts by gender and school board. The dataset includes academic year, region, board details, and counts for elementary male, elementary female, secondary male, and secondary female educators. It is sourced from October submissions to the Ontario School Information System (OnSIS).

Use Cases

• Analyze gender distribution trends across elementary school female educators and secondary school male educators by board type over multiple academic years.
• Model total educators per region using board language and board type as categorical features for resource allocation planning.
• Investigate correlations between board-level totals for total male educators and total female educators across different board types.

Strengths

• Data is reported through a formal provincial system (OnSIS) with standardized October submissions.
• Includes detailed breakdowns by school level (elementary/secondary) and gender for granular analysis.
• Applies privacy suppression for small cells (<10 educators) to prevent individual identification.

Limitations

• Excludes educators at private schools, hospital schools, correctional facilities, and summer/night schools, limiting scope to public day schools.
• Definition of long-term occasional (LTO) educators may vary across boards due to local agreements, creating potential inconsistency.
• Small cell suppression distorts precise counts in categories with fewer than 10 educators.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Collection Method

Collected via October submissions from schools and school boards to the Ontario School Information System (OnSIS).

Time Range

Academic year

Freshness

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Geography

Ontario, Canada, segmented by region and school board.