Photo: Qyd · CC BY-SA 3.0Most schools around Edson score below the middle in Alberta: 4 of 5
Counting a 3 km margin, Edson has 4 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade, for 2,449 students.
How Edson’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 | 5 | 61% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 5 | 8% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the standard of excellence: 8% here, against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (5)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Holy Redeemer Catholic Junior/Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 71% · Excellence 13% | Middle fifth |
| Ecole Pine Grove SchoolElementary · Grades 6–8 | Acceptable 61% · Excellence 13% | Fourth fifth |
| Vanier Community Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 70% · Excellence 8% | Fourth fifth |
| Parkland Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 53% · Excellence 4% | Bottom fifth |
| Yellowhead Koinonia Christian SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 0% · Excellence 0% | 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 8 schools in and around Edson are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Edson
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
All teach in the province’s majority language; none 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 Edson’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Split by system, that is English public 5, English Catholic 2 and independent or other 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
The 2 boards that run schools here
Every board or service centre with a school in the area, and its schools.
The Grande Yellowhead School Division runs the most, 5 of them, among 2 boards.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grande Yellowhead School DivisionParkland, Mary Bergeron, Ecole Pine Grove, Westhaven, The Learning Connection - Edson | English public | 5 | 1,634 |
| The Living Waters Catholic Separate School DivisionHoly Redeemer Catholic Junior/Senior, Vanier Community | English Catholic | 2 | 575 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Edson
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives sets the school: each board draws a catchment around every one of its schools, and a child living inside it has a place there. Other schools take children from outside when they have room.
Independent schools
Independent schools set their own admissions and fees; the province funds part of their costs where they meet its conditions.
Catholic schools
Catholic separate schools are publicly funded here; each separate board decides whom it admits, Catholic families first.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 8 schools in and around Edson
High schools within reach of Edson
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
4 secondary schools are within 15 km: 2 English public, 1 English Catholic and 1 independent. The shortest trip is to Holy Redeemer Catholic Junior/Senior High School, 0.8 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Redeemer Catholic Junior/Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Living Waters Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Middle fifth | 309 | 0.8 km |
| Parkland Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Grande Yellowhead School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 516 | 0.8 km |
| The Learning Connection - EdsonSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Grande Yellowhead School Division | English public | – | 77 | 2.3 km |
| Yellowhead Koinonia Christian SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | – | Independent | Bottom fifth | 240 | 3 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wetaskiwin | 13,703 | 10 | 2,606 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Grande Cache | 8,984 | 9 | 1,597 | 0 | 40 km |
| Camrose County | 8,951 | 26 | 4,269 | 1 | 12 km |
| Marlborough | 8,932 | 65 | 27,326 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Innisfail | 8,736 | 5 | 1,421 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Edson | 8,692 | 8 | 2,449 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Strathcona Park | 8,680 | 48 | 20,472 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Dalhousie | 8,617 | 51 | 21,586 | 2 | 0.6 km |
| Nolan Hill | 8,581 | 11 | 6,570 | 0 | 1.6 km |
| Lac la Biche County | 8,580 | 7 | 1,435 | 2 | 0.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Tweddle Place | 5,211 | 47 | 18,787 | 0 | 0.6 km |
More schools than here: 183 of the 214 others. A French-language school is within reach in 92 of the 215.
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. 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. As the province lists them in 2025/26.
- 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.
- What isn’t here. Provinces don’t grade schools by inspection; class sizes and enrolment over time aren’t in the open lists.
- The kinds of school. Each school is elementary, secondary or all-grade by the grades it teaches; alternative, adult and online programs sit in a group of their own.
- Which schools count. Inside Edson’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
Questions about schools in Edson
Which boards run the schools in Edson?
By number of schools: The Grande Yellowhead School Division (5) and The Living Waters Catholic Separate School Division (2).
How do I get a place at a school in Edson?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
How many schools are there in Edson?
All 8 are inside the town itself.
Is there a French-language school in Edson?
None within 3 km of Edson. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
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).