Registering for Secondary School

Determining Your School

Every Grade 8 student has a home secondary school. This is the school that you should attend for secondary school based on your home address. Use our Find My Local School tool to determine your designated home school - we hope your home secondary school is EESS!

Completing Registration Forms

Every TVDSB elementary school has a staff member whose role is to work with you and your family to complete a registration package for your home secondary school; this teacher is called the Guidance Pathway Lead. They will help you complete a Transfer Form - Grade 8 to 9 and Home School Course Selection Form, which will be submitted to your designated secondary school once completed. In addition, your Guidance Lead Teacher will help you use My Blueprint (a software program) to select courses from your secondary school’s offerings.

Coming to EESS from a private school, home school, or non-TVDSB school 

For students moving from a non-TVDSB school to East Elgin, the first step is to complete a TVDSB registration form. These forms can be completed and submitted online - click here to find the online registration site. Parents or caregivers will need to request an account in order to log in and complete this registration form. You can also print out and complete the Student Registration Form.

To submit course selections for non-TVDSB students attending EESS in September, this course selection form needs to be completed and submitted to the school. This form can be completed and emailed to us (eastelgin@tvdsb.ca), printed and dropped off at the school, or we can accept course selections for students over the phone (519-773-3174). We are very flexible! 

If you have questions, or need help working through the registration and course selection process, please contact the EESS Guidance Department at 519-773-3174 ext. 67373.

Out-of-Area

We are incredibly proud of the experience that ALL of our TVDSB secondary schools provide students, and your home school is your best option for a school community ready to support you and help you succeed.

If you are considering applying to a secondary school other than your designated home school, you must contact that secondary school to request a registration package.  Complete the registration package and get your Guidance Lead Teacher to help you complete course selections for your chosen school(s), in addition to your home school. Please note that it is the parents/guardians responsibility to submit the "Out of Area" information to the Secondary School.

Click the underlined link to access the TVDSB Out of Area Exemption Request Form.

There are a couple of things you need to keep in mind if you are requesting to attend a secondary school other than your home school, or your designated French Immersion or Emphasis Technology school (referred to as an “out-of-area” school):

1. Students interested in attending an out of area secondary school must apply to be permitted to attend. Out-of-area applications will only be considered once all in-area students have been registered and accommodated.

2. Even if you do get admitted to an out of area school, you will NOT be provided with transportation to that secondary school. You and your family will have to make sure that you have your own way of getting to school if you are attending any school other than one of your designated secondary school.