Ermineskin 138 and its edges hold 3 schools: 1 secondary school and 2 schools for every grade
They all come under The Wolf Creek School Division. Their rolls add up to 331 students (2025/26).
How Ermineskin 138’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 B: 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 | 67% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 10% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area trails, 10% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Mecca Glen SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 10% | 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 3 schools in and around Ermineskin 138 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 Ermineskin 138
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
None of them 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 Ermineskin 138’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 Ermineskin 138
The neighbourhood school
Ask the board first. It holds the enrolment list and points each street to its own school; out-of-area requests go ahead only with space to spare.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 3 schools in and around Ermineskin 138
High schools within reach of Ermineskin 138
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
7 secondary schools are within 15 km: 5 English public, 1 other and 1 English Catholic. The nearest is The Brick Learning Centre, 3.8 km away.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Brick Learning CentreSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Wolf Creek School Division | English public | – | 206 | 3.8 km |
| Ferrybank Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades 1–9 | The Wolf Creek School Division | English public | – | 17 | 3.8 km |
| Mecca Glen SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Wolf Creek School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 108 | 4.6 km |
| NorQuest College (Wetaskiwin)Secondary · Grades 10–11 | NorQuest College | Other | – | 11 | 13 km |
| Wetaskiwin OutreachAll grades · Grades 6–12 | The Wetaskiwin School Division | English public | – | 132 | 13 km |
| Wetaskiwin Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Wetaskiwin School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 848 | 14 km |
| Sacred Heart SchoolAll grades · Grades K–10 | The St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Middle fifth | 539 | 14 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Schools in the towns around Ermineskin 138
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ermineskin 138 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 km |
| Samson 137 8.2 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 km |
| Louis Bull 138B 8.3 km | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 km |
| Wetaskiwin 14 km | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 km |
Wetaskiwin leads the neighbours with 10 schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Schools inside Ermineskin 138 and those within 3 km of its outline: a family nearby would weigh them all.
- The kinds of school. Elementary and secondary come from the grades each school offers; a school offering both counts as all-grade.
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. Each board covers a territory in one language and one system, public or Catholic; boards of different systems overlap.
- Bands, not ranks. Fifths are worked out among every Alberta school with a PAT result, then averaged per school.
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
Questions about schools in Ermineskin 138
How do I get a place at a school in Ermineskin 138?
Enrolment goes through the board; schools outside your area take students when they have room.
Which schools near Ermineskin 138 have the best results?
No school reaches the top fifth in Alberta; Mecca Glen School comes closest.
Is there a French-language school in Ermineskin 138?
Not near Ermineskin 138: within 3 km there is none, and the French-language board points to the 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).