| Thames Valley District School Board | |
| Native Name: | TVDSB |
| Grades: | K-12 |
| Established: | January 1, 1998 |
| Region: | Greater London and all of Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford Counties |
| Country: | Canada |
| Coordinates: | 42.9965°N -81.2067°W |
| Free Label: | Chair of the Board |
| Free Text: | Beth Mai |
| Free Label2: | Vice-chair of the Board |
| Free Text2: | Dave Cripps |
| Free Label3: | Director of Education |
| Free Text3: | Mark Fisher |
| Free Label4: | Elected trustees |
| Free Text4: | 15: 6 representing London; 2 each for Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford; 1 Indigenous representative; 3 non-voting student trustees[1]). |
| Schools: | 184, 30 secondary, 154 elementary |
| Budget: | CA $1.1 billion [2] |
| Students: | 80k[3] |
| Motto: | We build each student's tomorrow, every day. |
The Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB; known as English-language Public District School Board No. 11 prior to 1999[4]) is a public school board in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
The TVDSB serves an area over 7,000 square kilometres which includes urban, suburban and rural communities. It spans three counties and includes the cities of London, St. Thomas, and Woodstock, plus the towns of Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, and Strathroy-Caradoc, as well as several smaller towns and villages.
As of 2024, the Board administered 160 schools (134 elementary and 26 secondary schools). They also provide alternative education programs for approximately 40,000 students through adult day school, continuing education, general interest, night school and summer school courses.
It was created on January 1, 1998, by the amalgamation of the Elgin County Board of Education, The Board of Education for the City of London, Middlesex County Board of Education, and Oxford County Board of Education.
Four future elementary schools in southeast London, southwest London, northwest London, west London, Lucan, Woodstock, and Belmont are currently under construction or are in planning stages.[5] [6] [7] Extensions and renovations to Eagle Heights are currently underway.[8] [9]
In 2021, the Thames Valley District School Board was named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit related to the sexually inappropriate behaviour of one of its teachers, Ryan Jarvis.[10] Jarvis filmed at least 27 teenage students with a spy camera while he was an English teacher at H. B. Beal Secondary School. He used a camera concealed in a pen to film his female students' breasts. Jarvis became the first person in Canada to serve jail time for a voyeurism conviction. Jarvis's teaching license was revoked following his conviction.[11] The Thames Valley District School Board was the setting of R v. Jarvis, 2019 SCC 10[12] a precedent-setting case of voyeurism in Canada.[13]
In 2021, Lawrence Thompson, a custodian at a TVDSB elementary school, was found guilty of four counts of kidnapping and sexual assault of a four-year-old girl.[14] During the investigation in 2018, the school board indicated it would fully cooperate with police and local law enforcement authorities. However, the TVDSB declined to provide a list of schools that the janitor previously worked at.[15]
In 2024, the TVDSB, and several other school boards, came under scrutiny for sending officials on trips and retreats.[16] TVDSB executives attended a retreat at the hotel in the Rogers Centre, where the Toronto Blue Jays play baseball. Though the executives paid for the trip from their own expense accounts, the optics of going on a trip when the board was in a deficit position was enough to cause the provincial government to audit their finances.[17] Since the scandal broke, Director of education Mark Fisher has been put under paid leave.[18]
Current trustees for the 2022-2026 term:[19]
| width=18% | Trustee | width=28% | Wards | width=30% | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheri Polhill | 1, 11, 12, 14 | London | |||
| Lori-Ann Pizzolato | 1, 11, 12, 14 | London | |||
| Marianne Larsen | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | London | |||
| Leroy Osbourne | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | London | |||
| Beth Mai | 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 | London | |||
| Sherri Moore | 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 | London | |||
| Dave Cripps | Oxford County | Oxford County | |||
| Leeanne Hopkins | Oxford County | Oxford County | |||
| Arlene Morell | Middlesex County | Middlesex County | |||
| Christian Sachs | Middlesex County | Middlesex County | |||
| Meagan Ruddock | Elgin County | Elgin County | |||
| Bruce Smith | Elgin County | Elgin County | |||
| Carol Antone | All First Nations | N/A | |||
| Shivani Vimal | All Elgin, Middlesex, and Oxford County Students (non-voting) | N/A | |||
| Emma Park | All London Students (non-voting) | N/A | |||
| Lorissa Westlake | All Indigenous Students (non-voting) | N/A |
The following is a list of the schools administered by the TVDSB and their towns/city: