Photo: daisy leggett · CC BY 2.0Results around Forty Mile County No. 8 split both ways in Alberta: 2 of 4 schools high, 1 low
Best placed: Senator Gershaw School and St. Michaels School. Its elementary schools are small, 27 students on average, against 274 in Alberta. Within 3 km of Forty Mile County No. 8 are 6 elementary schools and 4 schools for every grade, teaching 747 students.
How Forty Mile County No. 8’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 | 4 | 72% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 4 | 17% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 17% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (4)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Senator Gershaw SchoolAll grades · Grades 4–12 | Acceptable 80% · Excellence 21% | Second fifth |
| St. Michaels SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 76% · Excellence 33% | Second fifth |
| Foremost SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 14% | Middle fifth |
| Burdett SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 47% · Excellence 4% | 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.
The 10 schools in and around Forty Mile County No. 8
Where the 10 schools in and around Forty Mile County No. 8 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 Forty Mile County No. 8
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
Schooling in French isn’t on offer here.
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 Forty Mile County No. 8’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
System by system: English public 9 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
2 boards, school by school
The boards and their schools here.
The biggest of the 2 is The Prairie Rose School Division: 9 schools.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Prairie Rose School DivisionSenator Gershaw, Burdett, Foremost, Bow Island, Shamrock Colony, Baker Colony, Plainview Colony, Sunrise Colony … | English public | 9 | 704 |
| The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionSt. Michaels | English Catholic | 1 | 43 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Forty Mile County No. 8
Catholic schools
Catholic schools are public here, run by separate boards that set their own admissions.
The neighbourhood school
Attendance zones do the sorting here. Inside the zone a child is in; outside it, the answer turns on how full the school is.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
Towns its size in Alberta
Towns of a similar population, with their schools in or within 3 km; described, not ranked.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Orchards At Ellerslie | 6,267 | 11 | 9,351 | 0 | 0.3 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 |
| Fairview | 3,909 | 64 | 24,041 | 1 | 0.2 km |
| Pincher Creek | 3,890 | 5 | 575 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
More schools than here: 205 of the 261 others. A school in French is nearby in 109 towns of 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
- The kinds of school. Elementary schools run from kindergarten to Grade 6 or 8, secondary ones to Grade 12; some cover every grade, and alternative, adult and online schools are listed apart.
- Which schools count. A school counts when it sits inside Forty Mile County No. 8 or less than 3 km beyond its edge.
- Boards and systems. Boards come in one language each, and where the province funds Catholic schools, as public or Catholic; independent schools stand outside them.
- The year. The open list of 2025/26.
- What isn’t here. No province rates its schools by inspection, and enrolment covers one year (Ontario and Alberta only), so there is 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.
Questions about schools in Forty Mile County No. 8
Which boards run the schools in Forty Mile County No. 8?
By number of schools: The Prairie Rose School Division (9) and The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division (1).
How do I get a place at a school in Forty Mile County No. 8?
Registration is with the board, which assigns the school for the home address.
Is there a French-language school in Forty Mile County No. 8?
None within 3 km of Forty Mile County No. 8. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
How many schools are there in Forty Mile County No. 8?
Inside the town there are 7; another 3 sit within 3 km.
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).