Photo: John Wiley User:Jw4nvc - Santa Barbara, California · CC BY 3.0Most of Fort Macleod’s schools are public: 0 of 5 are Catholic, where in Alberta it is 18%
Of the 2 with published results, 0 land in the top two fifths in Alberta. Taken together, Fort Macleod and its 3 km edge hold 1 elementary school, 1 secondary school and 3 schools for every grade for 846 students.
Who runs Fort Macleod’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
They all share one system, every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How Fort Macleod’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 | 2 | 34% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 2 | 3% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the standard of excellence: 3% here, against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| F. P. Walshe SchoolAll grades · Grades 6–12 | Acceptable 56% · Excellence 7% | Fourth fifth |
| Livingstone Range School Division Virtual SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 13% · 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 5 schools in and around Fort Macleod are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
2 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 Fort Macleod
The language each school teaches in, against every school 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.
How children get a place in Fort Macleod
The neighbourhood school
Families enrol through the board, which assigns the school serving their street; transfers depend on space.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 5 schools in and around Fort Macleod
High schools within reach of Fort Macleod
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Within 15 km, families can reach 3 high schools: 3 English public. The nearest is Livingstone Range School Division Virtual School, 0.3 km away.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livingstone Range School Division Virtual SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Livingstone Range School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 113 | 0.3 km |
| F. P. Walshe SchoolAll grades · Grades 6–12 | The Livingstone Range School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 381 | 0.4 km |
| Jumbo Valley Hutterite Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades 1–9 | The Livingstone Range School Division | English public | – | 14 | 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Orchards At Ellerslie | 6,267 | 11 | 9,351 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| … | |||||
| Fraser | 3,973 | 18 | 6,837 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Belmead | 3,970 | 40 | 16,528 | 1 | 2.3 km |
| Keswick | 3,957 | 6 | 5,091 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Belle Rive | 3,946 | 49 | 26,272 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Fort Macleod | 3,945 | 5 | 846 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Livingston | 3,929 | 17 | 14,667 | 0 | 2.2 km |
| Forty Mile County No. 8 | 3,927 | 10 | 747 | 0 | 18 km |
| Maple | 3,920 | 10 | 6,264 | 0 | 1.1 km |
| Lamont County | 3,918 | 0 | — | 0 | 34 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
More schools than here: 224 of the 261 others. Schooling in French is on hand in 109 of the 262.
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
- Bands, not ranks. A suppressed result gives no band; a school with both measures averages its fifths.
- What isn’t here. Provinces don’t grade schools by inspection; class sizes and enrolment over time aren’t in the open lists.
- The year. The province’s 2025/26 list.
- Boards and systems. Boards are set by language and, in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan, by faith: public or Catholic.
- Which schools count. Inside Fort Macleod’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
- 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.
Questions about schools in Fort Macleod
Is there a French-language school in Fort Macleod?
Not within 3 km of Fort Macleod. The French-language board still serves families here.
How many schools are there in Fort Macleod?
Every one of them, 5, is inside the town.
How do I get a place at a school in Fort Macleod?
Start with the board for the system you want; your address sets the 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).