Executive summary
MCA Group cleans Crestwood Preparatory College in two shifts. A daytime porter works while the school is in session, and a cleaning team does the full clean overnight. Crestwood is one of the educational facilities MCA Group looks after across the Greater Toronto Area and Ontario.
A school is in use all day. Classrooms, washrooms, lunchrooms, hallways, and common areas need attention again within hours of the overnight clean, so an occasional or once-a-day visit is not enough. The Crestwood Preparatory College cleaning program combines five services:
- Daytime porter services
- Nightly cleaning
- Washroom disinfection
- Floor care
- Carpet cleaning
MCA Group’s aim is a clean, comfortable, professionally maintained school where students can learn, teachers can teach, and staff can work.
Client and project overview
| Project Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Featured client | Crestwood Preparatory College |
| Industry | Education |
| Facility type | Preparatory college / educational facility |
| Geographic market | Greater Toronto Area, Ontario |
| Primary service | Educational facility cleaning |
| Cleaning model | Daytime porter (facility touch-ups) + nightly cleaning (comprehensive) |
| Washroom services | Cleaning and disinfection |
| Specialty services | Floor stripping and waxing, carpet steam cleaning |
| Primary users | Students, teachers, staff, and visitors |
| Broader MCA education portfolio | Schools and colleges across the GTA and Ontario |
The challenge: keeping an active educational facility clean
The hardest part of cleaning a school is the constant activity during the day. A conventional commercial building is occupied by employees during working hours. A school has students, teachers, staff, and visitors sharing the same spaces all day.
A facility can be thoroughly cleaned overnight and still need attention once the school day begins:
- Classrooms need to be ready for learning, and may need extra cleaning between uses.
- Washrooms need regular attention and touch-ups.
- Lunchrooms and common areas need attention after repeated use.
- Hallways and shared spaces need to stay presentable.
With only an overnight program, some of these areas would wait several hours for attention. The school needs cleaning support during the day as well as overnight.
The MCA Group solution
MCA Group’s program at Crestwood is built around the school’s operating cycle. It maintains the facility through the day and overnight, which a single daily clean cannot do.
Daytime porter and nightly cleaning
The porter is on site during school hours. Once the day’s activities end, the overnight team does the more detailed cleaning that prepares the facility for the next day.
| Area | Daytime porter services | Nightly cleaning |
|---|---|---|
| Washrooms | Touch-ups during operating hours | Detailed cleaning and disinfection |
| Classrooms | Touch-ups as needs arise | Comprehensive cleaning |
| Lunchrooms | Attention after use | Detailed cleaning |
| Common areas and hallways | Maintenance of high-use areas | Comprehensive cleaning |
| Whole facility | Responds to daily activity and maintains presentation | Floor cleaning, waste removal, general janitorial services, and scheduled specialty cleaning |
Area-by-area coverage
Students spend much of their day in classrooms. These rooms get daytime touch-ups, overnight cleaning, floor care, general surface cleaning, waste removal, and routine janitorial maintenance.
Washrooms are among the highest-use areas in any school or college. The porter attends to them during the day, and the overnight team cleans and disinfects them after closing, so they stay clean, presentable, hygienic, and ready for use.
Lunchrooms and common areas are used repeatedly for meals, breaks, and social interaction. They get touch-ups during the day and a fuller clean overnight.
Specialty floor and carpet care
Routine cleaning is not always enough for surfaces that take daily foot traffic from students, staff, and visitors.
For hard floors, MCA Group provides stripping and waxing. The team assesses the floor, strips the existing finish where required, cleans the surface, applies a new protective wax finish, and maintains it afterwards. The exact process depends on the flooring and the facility’s requirements.
For carpets, routine vacuuming handles everyday maintenance, and periodic steam cleaning does the deeper clean.
MCA Group schedules these services as part of the broader maintenance program and coordinates them around school operations to minimize disruption. The schedule can be adapted to the facility’s requirements.
The daily cleaning cycle
The program runs as a continuous cycle that repeats every school day.
- The school day begins, and students, teachers, staff, and visitors enter the facility.
- Classrooms, washrooms, lunchrooms, hallways, and common areas are in regular use through the day.
- The day porter touches up high-use areas during operating hours.
- The school day ends, and the facility becomes available for a full clean.
- The overnight team cleans classrooms, washrooms, lunchrooms, common areas, and other spaces.
- Floor stripping and waxing, carpet steam cleaning, and other specialty services are done as the facility requires.
- The facility is ready for another day of learning.
Results of the cleaning partnership
The program keeps the facility ready for students, teachers, staff, and visitors throughout the day and into the next school day.
No before-and-after measurements were provided for Crestwood Preparatory College, so the results here are described by the scope of the ongoing service:
- Daytime porter support and nightly cleaning
- Classroom, lunchroom, and common-area cleaning
- Washroom cleaning and disinfection
- Floor maintenance, including floor stripping and waxing
- Carpet steam cleaning
- Ongoing facility presentation
A broader education-sector portfolio
Crestwood Preparatory College is one example of MCA Group’s education-sector experience across the GTA and Ontario. The portfolio also includes:
- Trios College
- ILAC International College
- International Business University
- ILSC Toronto English Language School
Each institution has its own facility layout, operating schedule, traffic levels, and cleaning requirements, so the service model is adapted to the individual facility.
MCA Group would like to support more public schools, private schools, colleges, universities, private educational institutions, daycare centres, training facilities, and other educational environments. The approach is the same for one facility or many: understand the facility, build the right cleaning schedule, provide reliable service, communicate, respond, and maintain the environment.
| MCA Group experience | Portfolio |
|---|---|
| Commercial customers | 500+ |
| Facilities currently serviced | 1,000+ |
| Industry experience | 30+ years |
| Geographic coverage | GTA and Canada |
| Education-sector facilities | Schools, colleges, and educational organizations |
MCA Group brings what it has learned in commercial, healthcare, retail, industrial, and educational environments to its facility-support programs.
Why choose MCA Group for school and college cleaning?
Educational facilities need a cleaning provider that plans around a building occupied all day.
- Porter services handle cleaning needs while the facility is active, and structured overnight cleaning prepares it for the next school day.
- Floor stripping, waxing, carpet steam cleaning, and other specialty services are available alongside routine janitorial work.
- Cleaning schedules are built around each school’s operational requirements.
- The approach accounts for the daily traffic and shared-space use of schools and colleges.
- MCA Group already supports schools and colleges across the GTA and Ontario.
- MCA Group works alongside the facility team and aims for an ongoing relationship beyond individual cleaning visits.
Frequently asked questions
What educational facilities does MCA Group clean?
MCA Group supports schools, colleges, and other educational facilities throughout the GTA and Ontario, including post-secondary educational organizations.
Does MCA Group clean Crestwood Preparatory College?
Yes. Crestwood Preparatory College is included in MCA Group’s educational facility portfolio.
Does MCA Group provide daytime porter services and overnight cleaning for schools?
Yes. Daytime porters provide touch-ups in washrooms, classrooms, lunchrooms, common areas, and other high-use spaces. Overnight cleaning covers the more comprehensive work after the day’s activities have ended.
What areas are cleaned in a school, and are washrooms disinfected?
Depending on the facility’s requirements, services cover classrooms, washrooms, lunchrooms, common areas, hallways, and other shared spaces. Washroom cleaning and disinfection are part of MCA Group’s education-sector services.
Does MCA Group provide floor stripping, waxing, and carpet cleaning?
Yes. Floor stripping and waxing and carpet steam cleaning are both available as specialty services for educational facilities.
Can MCA Group support a single school location?
Yes. Although MCA Group has experience with broader education portfolios, its programs can be structured around an individual facility.
Does MCA Group provide cleaning for daycare centres?
MCA Group is looking to expand its education-sector portfolio to additional daycare centres, schools, universities, private schools, and other educational facilities throughout Ontario and the GTA.
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