One school serves Duchess: Duchess School
Its board is The Grasslands School Division; it is All grades · Grades K–12.
How Duchess’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 | 65% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 19% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 19% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Duchess SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 65% · Excellence 19% | 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.
How children get a place in Duchess
The neighbourhood school
No application round, no lottery: the address fixes the school, and the board handles the paperwork.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The school in and around Duchess
High schools within reach of Duchess
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
The one high school within 15 km is Rosemary School, at 13 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosemary SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Grasslands School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 142 | 13 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Schools in the towns around Duchess
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duchess | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 km |
| Newell County 17 km | 20 | 1 | 4 | 3.6 km |
| Brooks 18 km | 13 | 1 | 6 | 0.2 km |
Of the neighbours, Newell County counts the most schools: 20.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What isn’t here. There are no inspection ratings to show, and a single year of enrolment gives no trend.
- Bands, not ranks. Each result is placed in a fifth of Alberta’s schools on the same measure; a school’s band averages its fifths. Alberta suppresses small groups, so no school is ranked to the place.
- The year. The open list of 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 Duchess’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
- The kinds of school. Where a province publishes grades, the card gives them; elementary and secondary follow those grades.
Questions about schools in Duchess
Is there a French-language school in Duchess?
Not near Duchess: within 3 km there is none, and the French-language board points to the closest.
How many schools are there in Duchess?
Every one of them, 1, is inside the town.
How do I get a place at a school in Duchess?
Contact the board: it names the school for your address and takes the registration.
Which schools near Duchess have the best results?
None sits in the top fifth in Alberta; the strongest is Duchess 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).