COMMUNITY USE OF SCHOOLS and SCHOOL RENTALS

Planning an event? Organizing a sports group? Need a meeting space? https://www.wrdsb.ca/community/community-use-of-schools/

The Waterloo Region District School Board has numerous convenient locations waiting for your group. Gymnasiums, auditoriums, cafeterias and school grounds are available for rent.

Rooms can be rented at Waterloo Region District School Board facilities in the evenings and on weekends during the school year. Schools are not available for rent during long weekends and holidays. All schools are closed for community use during the first two weeks of the new school year and during the December shutdown period.
As per the Ministry of Education directive, school day activities, extra-curricular activities and parent involvement activities organized or administered by the school or school board have priority use of school space during and after regular school hours.

In order to create affordable access to community facilities, the Government of Ontario provides a Community Use of Schools Grant that allows school boards to charge subsidized rental rates for non-profit groups. The annual subsidies offered are contingent upon Ministry funding. The Waterloo Region District School Board reserves the right to allocate the subsidy in such a manner to ensure that the Community Use of Schools Program is offered at no cost to the Board. The Waterloo Region District School Board may change the way the subsidy is allocated year after year and determine the priority to which the subsidy will be applied.

A subsidy for a user group for an event is not a guarantee or commitment that future events will be subsidized in the same manner. Our primary goal is to subsidize local not-for-profit organizations who provide support and programming for local youth (under the age of 18 or under the age of 28 for participants with a disability).