Photo: xlibber · CC BY 2.09 of Bonnyville No. 87’s 14 tested schools score in the lower two fifths in Alberta
Top of the area on results: Ardmore School. No single board runs them all: there are 3. Counting a 3 km margin, Bonnyville No. 87 has 11 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 3 schools for every grade, for 6,327 students.
How Bonnyville No. 87’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 C: 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 | 14 | 58% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 14 | 10% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 10% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (14)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Ardmore SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 72% · Excellence 19% | Second fifth |
| Iron River SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 73% · Excellence 13% | Middle fifth |
| École des Beaux-LacsAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 73% · Excellence 11% | Middle fifth |
| Nelson Heights Middle SchoolElementary · Grades 4–6 | Acceptable 65% · Excellence 11% | Middle fifth |
| St. Dominic SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 70% · Excellence 13% | Middle fifth |
| Bonnyville Centralized High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 57% · Excellence 11% | Fourth fifth |
| Cold Lake Junior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–9 | Acceptable 50% · Excellence 11% | Fourth fifth |
| Ecole Dr Bernard Brosseau SchoolElementary · Grades 5–8 | Acceptable 65% · Excellence 10% | Fourth fifth |
| Art Smith Aviation AcademyAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 55% · Excellence 6% | Fourth fifth |
| H E Bourgoin Middle SchoolElementary · Grades 5–8 | Acceptable 53% · Excellence 8% | Fourth fifth |
| Assumption Junior Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 58% · Excellence 5% | Bottom fifth |
| École VoyageurAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 59% · Excellence 3% | Bottom fifth |
| Holy Cross Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 46% · Excellence 2% | Bottom fifth |
| North Star Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 40% · Excellence 4% | Bottom 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.
3 boards, school by school
Every board or service centre with a school in the area, and its schools.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Northern Lights School DivisionCold Lake, Cold Lake Junior, North Star, Cold Lake, Duclos, Bonnyville Centralized, Art Smith Aviation Academy, H E Bourgoin … | English public | 12 | 3,650 |
| The Lakeland Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionAssumption Junior Senior, Holy Cross, Ecole Dr Bernard Brosseau, Notre Dame, St. Dominic | English Catholic | 5 | 2,167 |
| The East Central Francophone Education Regiondes Beaux-Lacs, Voyageur | French public | 2 | 510 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 19 schools in and around Bonnyville No. 87 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 Bonnyville No. 87
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in Alberta marked.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
2 of them teach in French: École des Beaux-Lacs and École Voyageur; the public ones belong to The East Central Francophone Education Region.
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.
Who runs Bonnyville No. 87’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
By system, they split: English public 12, English Catholic 5 and French-language 2.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Bonnyville No. 87
The neighbourhood school
Attendance zones do the sorting here. Inside the zone a child is in; outside it, the answer turns on how full the school is.
French-language schools
French-language boards admit the children of rights-holders under section 23 of the Charter (a parent whose first language is French, or who was schooled in French in Canada), and may admit others through an admissions committee.
Catholic schools
Catholic separate schools are publicly funded here; each separate board decides whom it admits, Catholic families first.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 19 schools in and around Bonnyville No. 87
High schools within reach of Bonnyville No. 87
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Within 15 km, families can reach 2 high schools: 1 French public and 1 English public. The closest high school is École des Beaux-Lacs, 7.1 km out.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| École des Beaux-LacsAll grades · Grades K–12 | The East Central Francophone Education Region | French public | Middle fifth | 268 | 7.1 km |
| Bonnyville Centralized High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Northern Lights School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 311 | 8.1 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Places of about the same size and their schools in or within 3 km, largest first.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sturgeon County | 21,144 | 77 | 31,353 | 3 | 5.8 km |
| … | |||||
| Wetaskiwin | 13,703 | 10 | 2,606 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Walker | 13,388 | 21 | 11,855 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Douglasdale/Glen | 13,333 | 65 | 27,676 | 2 | 0.9 km |
| Signal Hill | 13,293 | 44 | 20,736 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Bonnyville No. 87 | 13,265 | 19 | 6,327 | 2 | 7 km |
| Redstone | 13,230 | 6 | 4,523 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Huntington Hills | 13,184 | 32 | 15,977 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| New Brighton | 13,048 | 21 | 13,562 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Downtown | 12,880 | 62 | 26,290 | 6 | 0.4 km |
| … | |||||
| Taber | 8,009 | 33 | 3,024 | 0 | 12 km |
More schools are within reach in 88 of the 130 other towns. A school in French is nearby in 50 towns of 131.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Bonnyville No. 87
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonnyville No. 87 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 7 km |
| Bonnyville 7.8 km | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0.7 km |
It outnumbers its 1 neighbours on schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What isn’t here. Inspection reports with ratings don’t exist here, and the lists give enrolment for one year at most.
- Bands, not ranks. Top fifth means a result among the best fifth of Alberta’s schools; the card shows a school’s average fifth.
- The year. Schools as listed for 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. Each board covers a territory in one language and one system, public or Catholic; boards of different systems overlap.
- Which schools count. The page takes in schools within Bonnyville No. 87 and up to 3 km past its boundary, so a school just over the line is still here.
- The kinds of school. Kindergarten to Grade 8 is elementary, Grade 9 to 12 secondary, though the split varies by province and board.
Questions about schools in Bonnyville No. 87
How many schools are there in Bonnyville No. 87?
The town holds 2 of them; 17 more are within 3 km of its outline.
Is there a French-language school in Bonnyville No. 87?
Yes, schooling in French is at École des Beaux-Lacs and École Voyageur.
How do I get a place at a school in Bonnyville No. 87?
Register with the board that runs the school: the address decides the designated school in each system, and the board can say which one it is.
Which boards run the schools in Bonnyville No. 87?
By number of schools: The Northern Lights School Division (12), The Lakeland Roman Catholic Separate School Division (5) and The East Central Francophone Education Region (2).
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).