The questions parents ask us most about admissions, tuition, curriculum and daily life at Discovery Academy.
Explore the topics below, from admissions and tuition to international students and everyday school life. Can’t find your question? Our admissions team is happy to help.
Yes. Letters of acceptance and notarised custodianship declarations are prepared in-house at no additional cost, usually within five business days of enrolment.
We place students with police-checked host families within about a 20-minute commute, with a monthly wellbeing check-in by the school.
Timetabled ESL support with a clear exit plan. Most students transition fully into mainstream classes within a year.
Accommodations are handled by the subject teacher in the room. At this class size, much of what an IEP asks for is simply how we teach.
Tuition runs from $17,000 for the elementary years to about $19,000 in the senior school, per year, in Canadian dollars. International tuition is quoted separately and includes registrar support for study permits.
Uniform, the lunch programme, overnight trips, bussing and optional instrumental lessons are billed separately. Textbooks, day trips and most athletics are included.
Yes — annual, termly and monthly plans. The enrolment contract sets out the schedule, and the office can adjust dates once a year if your circumstances change.
Financial aid is need-based and confidential. Roughly one family in seven receives an award, ranging from 10% to 60% of tuition. Applications open 1 November and are assessed separately from admission.
The full Ontario curriculum throughout, with OSSD credits in the senior school and Advanced Placement options in Grades 11 and 12. The school is inspected annually by the Ontario Ministry of Education.
A 10:1 student-teacher ratio, with most classes between 10 and 16 students. Senior seminars are often smaller. No student sits at the back unnoticed.
Every student is assessed on entry in every subject, and re-assessed each term. Missing topics are re-taught inside the regular class, with extra help at lunch and after school from the same teacher.
Strong students work at the level they are ready for, including senior-level material a year early where the prerequisite is genuinely met.
About 45 to 60 minutes a night in the elementary years, up to 90 minutes in Grades 7 and 8, and more in the senior school — always purposeful, marked, and discussed the next day.
Homework club and subject clinics run until 5:30 p.m. and are included. Beyond that there are CISAA teams across three seasons, two concert bands, robotics, debate and Model UN.
Yes, a simple one: school shirt, sweater and neutral trousers or skirt. It is billed separately and orders are placed through the office each August.
Three routes cover midtown, North York and the east end, bookable each August. Many families closer to campus use the Yonge Street line instead.
Secured entry, an on-site nurse, an allergy-aware kitchen, and staff trained in mental-health first aid. Visitors sign in at reception and are escorted.
Most families apply between November and January for the following September, but we admit on a rolling basis all year. If a place is open in your child’s grade, we can assess and enrol within about three weeks.
Four steps: an inquiry form, a tour with a short placement assessment, an offer, then enrolment. You meet the division head on the tour, and the assessment happens the same visit wherever possible.
Yes, in most grades if space allows. In the middle years especially, the sooner a gap is found the less of it there is — we assess and place students at any point in the year.
Some grades fill early. When they do we keep an active list, and places usually open in June as families relocate. Being on the list costs nothing.
Every question goes to our admissions office — not a mailing list. We reply within one business day, in English, French or Mandarin.
10030 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Tell us a little about your child and we will arrange a visit — you will meet the division head and see a lesson in progress.
