School Board Support
The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is responsible for changes to voters' school support designation. MPAC has an online portal to allow property owners or tenants registered with MPAC to designate their school support. Forms are also available should you not have an account.
If you have been newly added to the voters' list, or you have moved or changed your address since the last election, your school board support will automatically default to English Public.
Greater Sudbury has four school boards within its boundaries:
- Sudbury Catholic District School Board – English Catholic (Separate)
- Rainbow District School Board – English Public
- Conseil scolaire catholique du Novel Ontario – French Catholic (Separate)
- Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l’Ontario – French Public
Voters may only support one board and it must be a board they are eligible to support.
- Voters who are not Roman Catholic and have French-language education rights must be either English or French Public school supporters.
- Voters who are not Roman Catholic and do not have French-language education rights must be English Public school supporters.
- Voters who are Roman Catholic and do not have French-language education rights must be either English Public or English Separate school supporters.
- Only voters who are Roman Catholic and have French-language education rights have the choice of supporting any one of the four District School Boards (Roman Catholic includes Greek and Ukrainian Catholics).
French-language education rights exist when a person meets the following criteria:
- First learned and still understands French; or
- Received their elementary school instruction in Canada in French (this does not include French immersion or French as a second language); or
- Whose children received, or are now receiving, elementary or secondary school instruction in Canada in French (this does not include French immersion or French as a second language).
Visit MPAC's online portal or complete the Application for Direction of School Support if you need to add or update your school support.