Photo: Tiado · CC BY-SA 3.0Claresholm and its edges hold 2 schools: 1 elementary school and 1 secondary school
Every school here answers to The Livingstone Range School Division. 0 of its 2 schools with results sit in the top two fifths in Alberta. 678 students attend them (2025/26).
How Claresholm’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 | 2 | 63% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 2 | 7% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 7% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Willow Creek Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 65% · Excellence 6% | Fourth fifth |
| West Meadow Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 61% · Excellence 7% | Fourth 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 Claresholm are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Claresholm
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
Not one 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.
Who runs Claresholm’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
They belong to one system, every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Claresholm
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 Claresholm
High schools within reach of Claresholm
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Within 15 km, families can reach 2 high schools: 2 English public. Willow Creek Composite High School lies closest, 0.7 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Creek Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Livingstone Range School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 360 | 0.7 km |
| Willow Creek Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades 1–9 | The Livingstone Range School Division | English public | – | 32 | 8.8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klarvatten | 6,773 | 30 | 15,794 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| … | |||||
| Winston Heights/Mountview | 4,361 | 59 | 28,744 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Patricia Heights | 4,355 | 53 | 23,828 | 2 | 0.6 km |
| Mayliewan | 4,259 | 42 | 24,557 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Discovery Ridge | 4,256 | 18 | 9,209 | 0 | 2.2 km |
| Claresholm | 4,242 | 2 | 678 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Calder | 4,221 | 51 | 23,306 | 1 | 0.5 km |
| Ozerna | 4,216 | 36 | 20,818 | 0 | 1.2 km |
| Jackson Heights | 4,195 | 28 | 12,537 | 0 | 1.2 km |
| Vermilion | 4,192 | 6 | 1,977 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
268 of the 279 others have more schools in reach. 119 of the 280 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 Claresholm
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claresholm | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Willow Creek No. 26 10 km | 24 | 0 | 3 | 8.9 km |
24 schools make Willow Creek No. 26 the best supplied neighbour.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. An all-grade school teaches from kindergarten through high school; elementary and secondary schools split those years.
- Which schools count. Every school inside Claresholm’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
- Boards and systems. A public school belongs to a board of one language; in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan a board is also public or Catholic. An independent school runs itself.
- The year. The 2025/26 list.
- Bands, not ranks. Alberta publishes the share at each PAT standard and suppresses small groups, so the page gives fifths, not ranks.
- What isn’t here. Missing: inspection ratings (no province gives them), enrolment trends and Ontario’s private schools.
Questions about schools in Claresholm
How do I get a place at a school in Claresholm?
The board’s school locator gives the designated school; registration is with the board or the school.
Is there a French-language school in Claresholm?
No, none within 3 km of Claresholm; ask the French-language board for the nearest.
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).