Belleville schools offer a wide range of educational opportunities, allowing you and your family to engage in lifelong learning.
Elementary and Secondary
Our community is home to a number of elementary and secondary schools which are part of the Hastings Prince Edward District Board and the Algonquin & Lakeshore Catholic District School Board. Privately funded schools include Quinte Christian High School and Albert College. Founded in 1857, Albert College is Canada's oldest co-educational boarding and day school and provides curriculum from pre-kindergarten to grade 12/post graduate.
Belleville is also home to Sir James Whitney School for the Deaf, an Ontario provincial school serving deaf and hard-of-hearing students with elementary and secondary residential and day programs.
Post-Secondary
As a Belleville resident, you have easy access to several colleges and universities in our city or within an hour's drive, including Loyalist College, Queen's University and St. Lawrence College.
Located in west Belleville, Loyalist College has more than 4000 full time students with thousands more part-time students looking to upgrade their skills. Loyalist College's Bay of Quinte Skills Centre is a technology and trades training centre of choice for Southeastern Ontario. The centre focuses on developing skilled workers, particularly in emerging labour markets such as architecture and building sciences, automotive, electrical, welding and manufacturing.
Academy of Learning offers diplomas and certificate program at their Belleville campus and online. FNTI, in Tyendinaga, partners with Canadian colleges and universities to offer degree, diploma and certificate programs to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.
Specialty
Loyola School of Continuing and Adult Education in Belleville can help you obtain an Ontario Secondary School Diploma, upgrade for college, or improve your English, plus more.
Quinte Adult Education programs are available to adults who are age 18+ looking to achieve a high school diploma (OSSD). We offer several ways to obtain high school credits and upgrade your skills for college and university.
Established as a branch of the National Ballet Guild in 1972, Quinte Ballet School of Canada offers full-time and summer professional ballet training and recreational classes.