Photo: Jason Woodhead · CC BY 2.0Bow Island’s schools mostly beat the middle in Alberta, 2 of the 3 with results
Among them: Senator Gershaw School and St. Michaels School. In or within 3 km of Bow Island: 1 elementary school and 3 schools for every grade, with 504 students.
How Bow Island’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 | 76% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 3 | 21% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the standard of excellence: 21% here, against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Senator Gershaw SchoolAll grades · Grades 4–12 | Acceptable 80% · Excellence 21% | Second fifth |
| St. Michaels SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 76% · Excellence 33% | Second fifth |
| Cherry Coulee Christian AcademyAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 52% · 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.
Where the 4 schools in and around Bow Island are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
1 more have no point in the source and are listed below the map.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Bow Island
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
Schooling in French isn’t on offer here.
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 Bow Island’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
The split by system: English public 2, English Catholic 1 and independent or other 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
Which of the 2 boards runs which school
The boards and their schools here.
The biggest of the 2 is The Prairie Rose School Division: 2 schools.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Prairie Rose School DivisionSenator Gershaw, Bow Island | English public | 2 | 301 |
| The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionSt. Michaels | English Catholic | 1 | 43 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Bow Island
Catholic schools
Catholic schools are public here, run by separate boards that set their own admissions.
Independent schools
An independent school decides whom it takes and what it charges; provincial grants cover part of the cost.
The neighbourhood school
No application round, no lottery: the address fixes the school, and the board handles the paperwork.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 4 schools in and around Bow Island
High schools within reach of Bow Island
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Within 15 km, families can reach 3 high schools: 2 English public and 1 English Catholic. The closest high school is Senator Gershaw School, 0.4 km out.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senator Gershaw SchoolAll grades · Grades 4–12 | The Prairie Rose School Division | English public | Second fifth | 233 | 0.4 km |
| St. Michaels SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Second fifth | 43 | 0.7 km |
| Burdett SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Prairie Rose School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 159 | 10 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Inside Bow Island’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
- Bands, not ranks. A band is the fifth of Alberta’s schools a result falls in, averaged over the two PAT measures; suppressed groups would make places misleading.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
- Boards and systems. Boards come in one language each, and where the province funds Catholic schools, as public or Catholic; independent schools stand outside them.
- The year. Listed for 2025/26.
Questions about schools in Bow Island
Is there a French-language school in Bow Island?
No, none within 3 km of Bow Island; ask the French-language board for the nearest.
How many schools are there in Bow Island?
Every one of them, 4, is inside the town.
Which boards run the schools in Bow Island?
By number of schools: The Prairie Rose School Division (2) and The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division (1).
How do I get a place at a school in Bow Island?
The board’s school locator gives the designated school; registration is with the board or the school.
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).