Photo: Paul Jerry · CC BY 2.0Brooks’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Alberta, 5 of the 9 with results
Top of the area on results: École Le Ruisseau and Brooks Junior High School. No single board runs them all: there are 3. Taken together, Brooks and its 3 km edge hold 6 elementary schools, 5 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade for 4,065 students.
What stands out about Brooks’s schools
The strongest results
The area’s best results are at École Le Ruisseau (all grades), in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Every figure here sets the area’s schools beside the rest of its province.
How Brooks’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 B: 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 | 9 | 63% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 9 | 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 (9)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| École Le RuisseauAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 93% · Excellence 43% | Top fifth |
| Brooks Junior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–9 | Acceptable 76% · Excellence 19% | Second fifth |
| Griffin Park SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 26% | Second fifth |
| Uplands Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 63% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Newell Christian SchoolAll grades · Grades K–11 | Acceptable 63% · Excellence 8% | Fourth fifth |
| St. Joseph's CollegiateSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 60% · Excellence 10% | Fourth fifth |
| Christ The King AcademyElementary · Grades 5–8 | Acceptable 52% · Excellence 6% | Fourth fifth |
| Eastbrook Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 45% · Excellence 7% | Bottom fifth |
| Sunrise SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 32% · 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.
Which of the 3 boards runs which school
Every board or service centre with a school in the area, and its schools.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grasslands School DivisionBrooks, Brooks Junior, Eastbrook, Uplands, Griffin Park, Sunrise | English public | 6 | 2,370 |
| The Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate School DivisionHoly Family Academy, Christ The King Academy, St. Joseph's Collegiate, St. Luke's Outreach Centre Brooks | English Catholic | 4 | 1,479 |
| The Southern Francophone Education RegionLe Ruisseau | French public | 1 | 84 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 13 schools in and around Brooks are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
2 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 Brooks
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
In French: École Le Ruisseau. The public ones of the 1 come under The Southern 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 Brooks’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
By system, they split: English public 6, English Catholic 4, French-language 1 and independent or other 2.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Brooks
Catholic schools
The province funds Catholic separate schools beside the public ones. Each separate board sets its own admission rules, usually giving Catholic families first place.
Independent schools
Independent schools here charge fees but receive some provincial funding if they meet its standards.
French-language schools
Eligibility comes from the parents: French as a first language, or French schooling in Canada; otherwise, the board’s admissions committee decides.
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives settles it: the board’s map ties every address to one school, and a seat anywhere else waits on spare room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 13 schools in and around Brooks
High schools within reach of Brooks
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Within 15 km, families can reach 6 high schools: 3 English public, 2 English Catholic and 1 French public. The closest high school is Brooks Composite High School, 0.2 km out.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 10–12 | The Grasslands School Division | English public | – | 668 | 0.2 km |
| Brooks Junior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–9 | The Grasslands School Division | English public | Second fifth | 505 | 0.2 km |
| Sunrise SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Grasslands School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 77 | 0.3 km |
| St. Joseph's CollegiateSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Fourth fifth | 444 | 0.5 km |
| École Le RuisseauAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Southern Francophone Education Region | French public | Top fifth | 84 | 1.3 km |
| St. Luke's Outreach Centre BrooksSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | – | 49 | 1.9 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Towns of a similar population, with their schools in or within 3 km; described, not ranked.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 26,305 | 14 | 7,943 | 1 | 0.2 km |
| … | |||||
| Sylvan Lake | 17,897 | 10 | 3,395 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Mahogany | 17,818 | 26 | 17,873 | 0 | 1.4 km |
| Cold Lake | 17,798 | 14 | 4,588 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| McKenzie Towne | 17,757 | 32 | 20,151 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Brooks | 17,537 | 13 | 4,065 | 1 | 0.2 km |
| Coventry Hills | 17,391 | 14 | 11,841 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Canmore | 17,341 | 7 | 2,112 | 1 | 1.6 km |
| Summerside | 16,760 | 18 | 10,845 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| Strathmore | 16,416 | 31 | 5,213 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| … | |||||
| Temple | 10,545 | 49 | 26,574 | 1 | 0.1 km |
Among 76 towns its size, 60 have more schools nearby. 33 of the 77 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 Brooks
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks | 13 | 1 | 6 | 0.2 km |
| Newell County 4.9 km | 20 | 1 | 4 | 3.6 km |
| Duchess 18 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 km |
Top among the neighbours: Newell County, 20 schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. A 3 km band around Brooks’s outline is included, as it is for every town on the site.
- The kinds of school. Kindergarten to Grade 8 is elementary, Grade 9 to 12 secondary, though the split varies by province and board.
- The year. The province’s 2025/26 list.
- Boards and systems. The board is the public body that runs a school; this province has English and French boards, each public or Catholic.
- Bands, not ranks. Fifths are worked out among every Alberta school with a PAT result, then averaged per school.
- What isn’t here. Ontario’s private schools aren’t in the open list; no province publishes inspection grades.
Questions about schools in Brooks
How do I get a place at a school in Brooks?
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 Brooks?
By number of schools: The Grasslands School Division (6), The Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate School Division (4) and The Southern Francophone Education Region (1).
Is there a French-language school in Brooks?
Yes, there are French-language schools: École Le Ruisseau.
How many schools are there in Brooks?
Every one of them, 13, is inside the town.
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).