Here is some information about how schools work in Ontario and Quebec for your heated rivalry fics (if you want)
The ontario schooling system has a bunch of types of public schools. Catholic and “regular” (aka non religious) and both types of schools are offered in English, French or French immersion.
There are also private schools too but those are expensive.
There are different ways to split up the grades depending on the language of the schools and the size, but generally, the most popular splits are
Elementary : pre k - gr 5
Middle school : gr 6 - gr 8
High school : gr 9 - gr 12
Elementary : pre k - gr 6 (or pre k - gr 8)
Highschool : gr 7 - gr 12 (or gr 9 - gr 12)
In smaller towns there are some pre k - gr 12 schools.
After school you can either go into the job market or college or university.
College is like American trades school (people go there to become mechanics, electricians, plumbers, etc…) and university is for things like biology, political science, English, comp sci, etc…
We don’t use terms like “junior, sophomore, senior, and, freshman”
Quebec has its own unique system as well
Primaire : Maternelle (kindergarten) - 6e année
Secondaire : secondaire 1 - secondaire 5
After highschool it’s either job, cégep or uni
Cégep : différent programme length depending on the program but pre-uni programs are usually around 2 years. There are also the equivalent of college programs as well.
Uni : depends on program length but a standard 4 year program is usually 3 in Quebec
As a side note, I recently learned that some people don’t know this, aside from Montreal where a significant amount of the population is bilingual, Quebec is mainly a French speaking province. The more rural you go the more French only speaking people there are.
Even in places like Gatineau that are right on the border of Ontario. My friend who grew up there only learned English in highschool :). Signs have to be in French, ads are in French, even company names are different (ex : staples - bureau en gros and kfc - PFK (poulet frit kentucky)). Thé radio is in french, the products being sold are labeled in French, if you go to a restaurant you’re gonna most likely get service in French, etc… (and of course this is similar in Montreal, where they judge you big time if you don’t speak French)
