Ridley College

Catharines
, Canada
Location
Post-Graduate (Grades 9-12; PG)
Age
College Prep
Focus
Co-Ed
Gender
718
Students
70%
Boarding
Uniform
Dress Code From most to least formal:
Uniform, Formal, Casual, Informal.
20
Sports
1889
Year Founded

Description

Ridley College is one of the only K-12 IB Continuum co-educational boarding and day schools in North America. Founded in 1889, and located on over 90 beautiful acres of campus in St. Catharines, Ontario. With 350 boarders representing over 60 countries, Ridley is one of the largest boarding programmes in Canada and one of country’s oldest boarding schools. Ridley has a diverse extracurricular programme offering over 75 different arts, athletics, leadership, and community service groups; Hockey, Basketball, Rowing, and Soccer being the most competitive of the sports teams, and such non-athletics as a world-class VEX Robotics programme, and biannual dramatic performances. Recent graduates have matriculated to top Canadian, American and International universities such as University of Toronto, McMaster, Queens, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, and Yale to name a few.

Unique Characteristics

International Baccalaureate Continuum School, over 60 countries represented in the student body.

College Matriculation These are the handful of schools or colleges where students have most frequently matriculated.

  • University of Toronto
  • University of Waterloo
  • Queen’s University
  • University of Western Ontario
  • University of Ottawa
 

Academics

Block
Schedule
ESL Programs
Summer Programs
Saturday Classes

Admissions

No SSAT Required
Rolling Application Deadline
Preferred Application Platform
SSAT SAO
School-Specific

Student Body

718
Students
Co-Ed
Gender
Boarding
0%
International
0%
International Students From The countries with the largest number of students at the school.
Canada, China, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Mexico, United States of America.

Location

Address2 Ridley Road St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Nearby Airports
Buffalo International Airport (BUF)– 55 minutes from campus
Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ)– 1 hour from campus
Campus Size90 Acres

Contact Information

Julie Cameron
Admissions Director
Ed Kidd
Head of School
(905) 684-1889 x2207
Phone