Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0Carstairs and its edges hold 2 schools: 1 elementary school and 1 school for every grade
All of them belong to The Chinook's Edge School Division. Between them they teach 1,262 students (2025/26).
How Carstairs’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 | 1 | 75% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 14% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the acceptable standard, where the area’s schools reach 75% against 67% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Hugh Sutherland SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–12 | Acceptable 75% · Excellence 14% | 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.
Where the 2 schools in and around Carstairs are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Carstairs
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
For schooling in French, families look further afield.
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 Carstairs’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.
How children get a place in Carstairs
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 2 schools in and around Carstairs
High schools within reach of Carstairs
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
2 secondary schools are within 15 km: 2 English public. The closest high school is Hugh Sutherland School, 1.5 km out.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugh Sutherland SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–12 | The Chinook's Edge School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 840 | 1.5 km |
| Didsbury High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Chinook's Edge School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 263 | 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King Edward Park | 8,399 | 93 | 38,569 | 7 | 0.9 km |
| … | |||||
| Belvedere | 5,337 | 66 | 31,217 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Aldergrove | 5,311 | 49 | 23,055 | 1 | 1.8 km |
| Belmont | 5,299 | 29 | 12,514 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Kirkness | 5,279 | 31 | 16,092 | 0 | 1 km |
| Carstairs | 5,248 | 2 | 1,262 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Edmonton Energy And Technology Park | 5,225 | 40 | 23,048 | 0 | 1.7 km |
| Trumpeter Area | 5,220 | 6 | 2,810 | 1 | 4.2 km |
| Ogilvie Ridge | 5,218 | 31 | 19,460 | 0 | 1.3 km |
| Ritchie | 5,215 | 57 | 22,035 | 6 | 0.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Clear Hills | 3,110 | 2 | 115 | 0 | 13 km |
276 of the 283 others have more schools in reach. In 128 of the 284, at least one school teaches in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Carstairs
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carstairs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Didsbury 12 km | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Crossfield 15 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 km |
Most schools next door: Didsbury, 4.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. Elementary and secondary come from the grades each school offers; a school offering both counts as all-grade.
- Which schools count. Every school inside Carstairs’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
- What isn’t here. Provinces don’t grade schools by inspection; class sizes and enrolment over time aren’t in the open lists.
- Bands, not ranks. Alberta publishes the share at each PAT standard and suppresses small groups, so the page gives fifths, not ranks.
- 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. The provincial list for 2025/26.
Questions about schools in Carstairs
Is there a French-language school in Carstairs?
None within 3 km of Carstairs. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
Which schools near Carstairs have the best results?
None sits in the top fifth in Alberta; the strongest is Hugh Sutherland School.
How do I get a place at a school in Carstairs?
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).