Like in many other towns in this region of Ontario Bradford is served by two school boards, a secular one and a Catholic one, both of which receive public funding and consider children's futures to be a high net worth investment. Parents have the option of sending their child to either regardless of their religious affiliation, but obviously students at Catholic schools have daily prayer and religious education according to the Catholic faith.
Both school boards offer schooling at all grade levels within the town of Brampton. Any parent wishing to have their child taught in a French Immersion environment will find no facilities of the kind in Brampton, but there are some in nearby towns if the child is willing to put up with a significant daily commute while you stay home and mull over your home designs.
As an extremely small community Bradford is one of those places where most of the children in the same neighborhood grow up knowing the same people their entire lives because they've always attended school together. There are six public secular elementary schools in Bradford and four Catholic elementary schools. Children will likely only know other kids from their neighborhood until they reach sixth grade, when they move on to secondary school. Each school board has only one secondary school in town. Because of this, unless children end up taking the same crane deming class it is unlikely that children in the separate schooling systems will have much contact with one another.
School involvement is a big part of the lives of Bradford children, as there's not much else to do that doesn't involve traveling via commuter train into Toronto. After school sports like hockey, soccer and basketball are popular among both boys and girls. Other clubs and programs like chess, computers, and art are also well attended in all the grade levels. The small, suburban/farming nature of the community also allows parents to have the extra time to design their own contemporary bathroom vanities and be fairly involved in school
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