Grades K-12 Colour(s) Green and Yellow Phone +1 905-878-2851 Province Ontario Number of students 250 | Enrollment 250+ Team name ECD Spartans Mascot Spartan Motto 'Together We Succeed' Founded 21 April 1963 | |
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School type Provincial School for the Deaf Language American Sign Language (ASL), English Address 255 Ontario St S, Milton, ON L9T 2M5, Canada Similar E C Drury High School, E C Drury/Trill Demonstr, Trillium Demonstr School, Milton District High Sch, Craig Kielburger Secondar | ||
The Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf is a provincial school in Milton, Ontario, Canada, with residential and day programs serving elementary and secondary deaf and hard-of-hearing students. It shared a campus with the E.C. Drury High School, for hearing students until June 2012, when E.C. Drury High School closed.
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Along with three other provincial schools for the deaf in Ontario, it is operated by the Ministry of Education under Education Act of Ontario section 13(1).
Teachers are both deaf and hearing. This school is named after the former premier of Ontario, Ernest C. Drury.
Deaf student population is approximately 90 students in the senior school and 100 in the elementary school; total is 190 students.
Deaf students from Canada often attend Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. and Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York for post-secondary programs.
Academic approach and languages of instruction
The Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf uses a bilingual-bicultural approach to educating deaf and hard-of-hearing students. American Sign Language (ASL) and English are the languages of instruction.