Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0Results around Athabasca County lean high: 2 of 3 schools in the top two fifths in Alberta
The strongest include Landing Trail Intermediate School and Edwin Parr Composite Community School. Catholic schools are fewer here, 0 of 7, where in Alberta they are 18%. Taken together, Athabasca County and its 3 km edge hold 2 elementary schools, 1 secondary school and 4 schools for every grade for 1,542 students.
What stands out about Athabasca County’s schools
The strongest results
Top of the area: Landing Trail Intermediate School (elementary), its results in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
How Athabasca County’s schools do on Alberta’s tests
The Provincial Achievement Tests in Grades 6 and 9: each school against every school in Alberta.
Its School Grade is A: it compares these results with the other towns of the province.
The area’s schools by fifth of the province
Each school’s band is the average of its measures’ fifths. The mark shows an even fifth of the area’s schools.
| Measure | Schools | Middle here | Alberta |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAT: acceptable standard | 3 | 79% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 3 | 17% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the standard of excellence: 17% here, against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Landing Trail Intermediate SchoolElementary · Grades 4–6 | Acceptable 81% · Excellence 28% | Top fifth |
| Edwin Parr Composite Community SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 71% · Excellence 17% | Second fifth |
| Boyle SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 79% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
Alberta Education and Childcare, PAT multiyear school results (core courses pooled). Alberta’s own notes: breaches in 2021–22, wildfires in 2022–24, the January 2026 sitting cancelled, pilot-curriculum students excused. Open Government Licence – Alberta.
Who runs Athabasca County’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Only one system is present here: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
Where the 7 schools in and around Athabasca County are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Athabasca County
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
No school here teaches in French.
Section 23 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives French-speaking parents the right to French-language schooling for their children, through the French-language boards.
How children get a place in Athabasca County
The neighbourhood school
Each school serves a defined area. A place elsewhere is possible when that school has room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 7 schools in and around Athabasca County
High schools within reach of Athabasca County
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Only Centre for Alternative and Virtual Education is within 15 km, 15 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre for Alternative and Virtual EducationAll grades · Grades 1–12 | The Aspen View School Division | English public | – | 46 | 15 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowness | 11,548 | 51 | 22,974 | 2 | 0.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Hamptons | 7,342 | 26 | 13,353 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Slave Lake | 7,334 | 8 | 2,155 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| Cavanagh | 7,300 | 34 | 22,567 | 0 | 1.6 km |
| Kincora | 7,290 | 20 | 13,053 | 0 | 1 km |
| Athabasca County | 7,280 | 7 | 1,542 | 0 | 14 km |
| Erin Woods | 7,245 | 52 | 22,562 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Lymburn | 7,231 | 40 | 20,014 | 0 | 1 km |
| Haysboro | 7,222 | 58 | 28,623 | 2 | 0.3 km |
| Peace River | 7,220 | 8 | 1,918 | 1 | 0.1 km |
| … | |||||
| Ormsby Place | 4,412 | 28 | 14,815 | 0 | 1 km |
Among 233 towns its size, 207 have more schools nearby. 106 of the 234 have a French-language school.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Athabasca County
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athabasca County | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 km |
| Athabasca 14 km | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 km |
Each of its 1 neighbours has fewer schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Bands, not ranks. The fifths are of schools, not students: a small school counts as much as a large one.
- Boards and systems. Every public school has a board: English or French, and in this province public or Catholic too. Independent schools have none.
- The year. The open list of 2025/26.
- The kinds of school. Kindergarten to Grade 8 is elementary, Grade 9 to 12 secondary, though the split varies by province and board.
- Which schools count. A school counts when it sits inside Athabasca County or less than 3 km beyond its edge.
Questions about schools in Athabasca County
Is there a French-language school in Athabasca County?
Not within 3 km of Athabasca County. The French-language board still serves families here.
How many schools are there in Athabasca County?
Inside the town there are 1; another 6 sit within 3 km.
How do I get a place at a school in Athabasca County?
Registration is with the board, which assigns the school for the home address.
Sources: Alberta Education and Childcare, school enrolment 2025/26 (Open Government Licence – Alberta) · map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).