In and around Eckville, 2 schools: 1 elementary school and 1 secondary school
All of them belong to The Wolf Creek School Division. 0 of its 2 schools with results sit in the top two fifths in Alberta. 293 students attend them (2025/26).
How Eckville’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 | 62% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 2 | 11% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 11% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Eckville Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 65% · Excellence 8% | Fourth fifth |
| Eckville Junior Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 59% · Excellence 13% | 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 Eckville are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
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 Eckville
The language each school teaches in, against every school 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 Eckville’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
No mix of systems 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 Eckville
The neighbourhood school
Registration happens with the board, not the school; the board names the school for the address.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Eckville
High schools within reach of Eckville
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
The one high school within 15 km is David Thompson School, at 13 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Thompson SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Wild Rose School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 217 | 13 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. A 3 km band around Eckville’s outline is included, as it is for every town on the site.
- The kinds of school. The kind of school is what its province lists: elementary, secondary or both.
- Bands, not ranks. A suppressed result gives no band; a school with both measures averages its fifths.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
- The year. Schools as listed for 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. Every public school has a board: English or French, and in this province public or Catholic too. Independent schools have none.
Questions about schools in Eckville
How do I get a place at a school in Eckville?
Registration is with the board, which assigns the school for the home address.
Is there a French-language school in Eckville?
There is none in or near Eckville (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
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).