Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.02 schools serve Crossfield, 1 elementary school and 1 school for every grade
They all come under The Rocky View School Division. Between them they teach 722 students (2025/26).
How Crossfield’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 | 47% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 2% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 2% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| W. G. Murdoch SchoolAll grades · Grades 6–12 | Acceptable 47% · Excellence 2% | 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 2 schools in and around Crossfield 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 Crossfield
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix 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 Crossfield’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 Crossfield
The neighbourhood school
Attendance zones do the sorting here. Inside the zone a child is in; outside it, the answer turns on how full the school is.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Crossfield
High schools within reach of Crossfield
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Within 15 km, families can reach 2 high schools: 1 independent and 1 English public. The closest high school is Airdrie Christian Academy, 14 km out.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airdrie Christian AcademyAll grades · Grades K–12 | – | Independent | Bottom fifth | 1,113 | 14 km |
| Herons Crossing SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Rocky View School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 967 | 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland | 6,493 | 33 | 14,420 | 1 | 0.4 km |
| … | |||||
| Leger | 4,108 | 22 | 12,525 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Matt Berry | 4,093 | 31 | 17,196 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| Balwin | 4,092 | 57 | 25,577 | 1 | 0.5 km |
| Tuxedo Park | 4,082 | 53 | 21,099 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Crossfield | 4,075 | 2 | 722 | 0 | 14 km |
| Meyokumin | 4,069 | 45 | 19,370 | 0 | 1.3 km |
| McCauley | 4,060 | 47 | 22,825 | 4 | 0.3 km |
| Smoky Lake County | 4,043 | 1 | 375 | 0 | 20 km |
| University Heights | 4,031 | 58 | 26,685 | 1 | 0.3 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
Among 268 towns its size, 257 have more schools nearby. Schooling in French is on hand in 113 of the 269.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Crossfield
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
Airdrie has the most schools nearby, 27.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- The year. The province’s school list, 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. Each board covers a territory in one language and one system, public or Catholic; boards of different systems overlap.
- Which schools count. Inside Crossfield’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
- The kinds of school. Schools are grouped by what they teach: elementary, secondary, every grade, and the alternative, adult and online programs.
Questions about schools in Crossfield
Is there a French-language school in Crossfield?
Not within 3 km of Crossfield. The French-language board still serves families here.
Which schools near Crossfield have the best results?
None sits in the top fifth in Alberta; the strongest is W. G. Murdoch School.
How do I get a place at a school in Crossfield?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
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).