Around Clear Hills, 2 schools for every grade: 2 schools in all
Every school here answers to The Peace River School Division. They enrol 115 students in all (2025/26).
How Clear Hills’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 D: 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 | 52% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 6% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 6% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Hines Creek Composite SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 52% · Excellence 6% | 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 Clear Hills 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 Clear Hills
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
A French-language school would mean a trip out of the area.
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 Clear Hills’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 Clear Hills
The neighbourhood school
Children go to the board’s designated school for their address, unless another school agrees to take them.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Clear Hills
High schools within reach of Clear Hills
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Within 15 km there is one high school, Hines Creek Composite School (13 km).
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hines Creek Composite SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Peace River School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 83 | 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palliser | 4,987 | 47 | 22,203 | 1 | 0.4 km |
| … | |||||
| Minburn County No. 27 | 3,142 | 5 | 1,350 | 0 | 17 km |
| Westgate | 3,139 | 51 | 19,337 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Garrison Woods | 3,138 | 71 | 23,570 | 1 | 0.1 km |
| Lower Mount Royal | 3,136 | 59 | 19,620 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Clear Hills | 3,110 | 2 | 115 | 0 | 13 km |
| Glengarry | 3,087 | 59 | 27,908 | 1 | 0.4 km |
| Crawford Plains | 3,075 | 32 | 16,218 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Bisset | 3,049 | 38 | 18,043 | 0 | 1 km |
| Laurier Heights | 3,048 | 63 | 26,059 | 2 | 0.2 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
185 of the 195 others have more schools in reach. Schooling in French is on hand in 83 of the 196.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Boards and systems. Public and Catholic boards are both publicly funded here, in English and in French; an independent school answers to no board.
- The year. The 2025/26 list.
- Bands, not ranks. The fifths are of schools, not students: a small school counts as much as a large one.
- What isn’t here. No province rates its schools by inspection, and enrolment covers one year (Ontario and Alberta only), so there is no trend.
- The kinds of school. Elementary schools run from kindergarten to Grade 6 or 8, secondary ones to Grade 12; some cover every grade, and alternative, adult and online schools are listed apart.
- Which schools count. Schools inside Clear Hills and those within 3 km of its outline: a family nearby would weigh them all.
Questions about schools in Clear Hills
How do I get a place at a school in Clear Hills?
Start with the board for the system you want; your address sets the school.
Is there a French-language school in Clear Hills?
No, none within 3 km of Clear Hills; ask the French-language board for the nearest.
Which schools near Clear Hills have the best results?
No school reaches the top fifth in Alberta; Hines Creek Composite School comes closest.
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).