Centre de services scolaire de l’Or-et-des-Bois (CSSOB)

Name

Centre de services scolaire de l’Or-et-des-Bois (CSSOB)

Legal name

Centre de services scolaire de l'Or-et-des-Bois

Website

https://csob.qc.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Val-d'Or

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: CSSOB is a public school service centre funded entirely by the Quebec Ministry of Education. Revenue is derived from government per-pupil allocations, operating grants, and public education funding. No commercial revenue model.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CSSOB delivers tuition-free public education across the full education lifecycle in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of northwestern Quebec, including preschool and primary schooling (19 schools), secondary education (4 schools), vocational training through the Centre de formation professionnelle Val-d'Or (CFPVD), and adult general education through three centres and a SARCA socio-professional integration programme. It also provides support services such as school transportation, daycare, libraries, student sports, and corporate training to regional businesses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Préscolaire et primaire (Preschool and Primary Education) Tuition-free public preschool (maternelle, ages 4-5) and primary education delivered across 19 schools in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, including Chanoine-Delisle (Senneterre), Charles-René-Lalande (Rivière-Héva), Des Explorateurs (Malartic), Louis-Querbes (Cadillac), Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption (Vassan), Notre-Dame-de-Fatima (Val-d'Or), Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire (Sullivan), Papillon-d'Or alternative school (Val-d'Or), Pavillon Saint-Paul (Senneterre), Saint-Isidore (Val-Senneville), Saint-Joseph (Val-d'Or), Sainte-Lucie (Val-d'Or), Sainte-Marie (Val-d'Or), Saint-Philippe (Dubuisson), and Saint-Sauveur (Val-d'Or). Includes school daycare (service de garde), extracurricular sports and cultural activities, and school transportation.
• Secondaire (Secondary Education) Tuition-free public secondary education delivered across 4 schools: La Concorde (Senneterre), Le Transit (Val-d'Or), Le Tremplin (Malartic), and Polyvalente Le Carrefour (Val-d'Or). Includes student sports (sport étudiant) programming and school councils (conseils d'établissements).
• Formation professionnelle (Vocational and Professional Training) Vocational training programs leading to a Diplôme d'études professionnelles (DEP) delivered through the Centre de formation professionnelle Val-d'Or (CFPVD). Available to youth and adult learners seeking professional certification aligned with regional employment needs.
• Formation générale adulte (Adult General Education) Adult general education services delivered through three centres: Centre L'Horizon (Val-d'Or), Centre La Concorde (Senneterre), and Centre Le Trait-d'Union (Malartic). Includes the SARCA (accueil, référence, conseil, accompagnement) intake and integration service and the GALA RECONNAISSANCE recognition event. Targets adults seeking high-school equivalency, literacy, socio-professional reintegration, or returning to studies.
• Services aux entreprises (Business Training Services) Continuing education and workforce development services offered to regional businesses and employers in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, supporting employee training and skills development.
• Services à l'élève (Student Support Services) School transportation, daycare (service de garde), student sports, cultural and athletic activities, and library services provided to students across CSSOB schools.

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Microsoft (Office 365)coreTechnology or IntegrationCSSOB uses Microsoft Office 365 as its primary digital productivity platform for staff and administration. The organization connects to Office 365 via the domain hint cssob.qc.ca. This is a technology infrastructure partnership supporting the centre's digital operations and communication.

Scale indicators1 record

Direct peers

• Centre de services scolaire de Laval: Laval-area CSS governed under the same Quebec Education Act framework with the same statutory mission, peer governance (conseil d'administration), and preschool-to-adult service lines — directly comparable as a same-model peer in a different territory.
• Centre de services scolaire de la Capitale: Quebec City region CSS operating under the same Bill 40 governance structure with the same educational service lines (préscolaire, primaire, secondaire, formation professionnelle, formation générale adulte), making it a structural peer in a different but comparable territory.
• English Montreal School Board (EMSB): Anglophone Montreal school board operating under Quebec's parallel English education system with the same full K-12 service offering (plus adult/vocational divisions) and equivalent provincial regulatory accountability to CSSOB.
• Centre de services scolaire des Bois-Francs: Quebec CSS serving a similarly rural central-Quebec region with a multi-municipality footprint and full-lifecycle preschool-to-adult education offering, closely comparable in scale and rural operating profile to CSSOB.
• Centre de services scolaire de Montréal (CSSDM): Quebec's largest CSS operating the same Bill 40 governance model — preschool, primary, secondary, vocational and adult education within a defined geographic territory — making it the most direct structural and operational peer to CSSOB at much larger scale.
• Lester B. Pearson School Board: Quebec anglophone school board operating under the same provincial regulatory framework as CSSOB, serving K-12 student populations across multiple physical school sites within a designated territory.
• Centre de services scolaire des Affluents: Suburban Montreal/Laurentides-Lanaudière CSS operating under the same governance model and same provincial funding regime, offering the standard CSS education continuum within its assigned territory.
• Centre de services scolaire des Laurentides: Laurentian-region CSS serving a similar mix of rural towns and small cities under the same Quebec Education Act framework, with comparable preschool-to-adult service breadth across a dispersed geographic territory.

Regional players

• Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue: Public post-secondary institution (collège d'enseignement général et professionnel) located in the same Abitibi-Témiscamingue region as CSSOB, providing overlapping vocational and technical training pathways (DEC programs) that overlap with CSSOB's CFPVD offering.

Others

• Ministère de l'Éducation du Québec: The Quebec Ministry of Education — the parent regulator and sole funder of CSSOB, sets policy, per-pupil funding formulas, and accountability frameworks for all 72 Quebec CSS, including CSSOB.

Market position

Customer concentration

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