The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) was formed as an amalgamation of the English sectors of the former Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, the Commission des Écoles Catholiques de Montréal (CECM), Commission scolaire Jérome-Le-Royer and the Commission scolaire Sainte-Croix. The EMSB was founded on July 1, 1998.

The English Montreal School Board, Quebec’s largest English Language school board, follows a number of core values including those of fairness and equity in its hiring practices. The EMSB is an equal opportunity employer with 4000 employees and 90 schools and centers. There are 40 elementary schools, 17 secondary schools, 11 outreach schools, 10 social affairs institutions and 11 adult and vocational centers. Currently, there are more than 38,000 students enrolled.

The EMSB is divided into three regions. Region 1 contains Anjou, St. Leonard, Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal North, Pointe-aux-Trembles and Montreal East. Region 2 contains Plateau Mont Royal, Ville St. Laurent, Town of Mount Royal, Downtown Montreal, Rosemount, Ahuntsic and NDG. Region 3 contains Cote St. Luc, NDG, Montreal West, Mile End, Westmount, Cote des Neiges, Hampstead and St. Henri.

Lester B. Pearson School Board
www.lbpsb.qc.ca
1925 Brookdale Avenue, Dorval
(514) 422-3000

The Lester B. Pearson School Board is the largest of the English school boards in Quebec in terms of student enrollment, serving approximately twenty-eight thousand students in the Youth sector and five thousand in its Adult and Vocational Education sector.

On the Island of Montreal, the Board serves the population entitled to English language education of the Boroughs of Verdun, LaSalle, Lachine, Dorval, Pointe-Claire, Dollard des Ormeaux / Roxboro, Dorval, Ile Bizard / Sainte Geneviève /Ste. Anne de Bellevue,  and Pierrefonds / Senneville, Kirkland, Beaconsfield / Baie d’Urfé.

Our Board also serves twenty-three municipalities to the west of the Island of Montreal, between the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers west to the Ontario border.  These are; the entire island of Île-Perrot, including the municipalities of L’Île-Perrot, Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Pincourt and Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot; the municipalities of Très-Saint-Rédempteur, Sainte-Marthe, Sainte-Justine-de-Newton, Saint-Clet, Coteau-du-Lac, Les-Côteaux, Saint-Polycarpe, Saint-Zotique, Rivière-Beaudette, Saint-Télesphore, Les Cèdres, Pointe-des Cascades, Ile-Cadieux, Vaudreuil-sur-le-lac, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Hudson, Saint-Lazare, Rigaud and Pointe-Fortune.

As of July 1, 2003 the Board is responsible for a network of forty-four elementary schools, eleven secondary schools and four Adult & Vocational Education Centers.  In addition, the Board operates three Alternative Learning Centers and four Ministry of Social Affairs schools.

These buildings range in age from a new elementary school built in 2003 to some elementary schools and a high school that have provided over one hundred years of service to their communities.  The elementary schools range in size from a two-room schoolhouse with an enrollment of twenty-seven to a school of almost seven hundred students.  High schools vary in enrollment from just under six hundred to approximately thirteen hundred students.  The adult education centers serve four thousand full-time and part-time students while our vocational centers provide skills training to approximately one thousand students.