The 3 schools of Gibbons: 1 elementary school and 2 schools for every grade
The Sturgeon School Division runs every one of them. Their rolls add up to 791 students (2025/26).
How Gibbons’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% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 10% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Gibbons SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–9 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 10% | Middle 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 Gibbons 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 Gibbons
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
No school here 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 Gibbons’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
A single system: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Gibbons
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.
The 3 schools in and around Gibbons
High schools within reach of Gibbons
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Counting out to 15 km, there are 6: 6 English public. The closest high school is Gibbons School, 0.9 km out.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibbons SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–9 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 313 | 0.9 km |
| Sturgeon Learning CentreAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | – | 147 | 0.9 km |
| Lilian Schick SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–9 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 213 | 5.2 km |
| Oak Hill SchoolAll grades · Grades 4–9 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | – | 20 | 5.9 km |
| Fort Saskatchewan Next Step II Outreach SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Elk Island School Division | English public | – | 226 | 15 km |
| Fort Saskatchewan Christian SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Elk Island School Division | English public | Second fifth | 425 | 15 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Places of about the same size and their schools in or within 3 km, largest first.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodlands | 5,391 | 39 | 16,737 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| … | |||||
| West Jasper Place | 3,427 | 54 | 21,882 | 2 | 0.6 km |
| Royal Gardens | 3,392 | 41 | 18,086 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Coach Hill | 3,383 | 50 | 20,569 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Montrose | 3,378 | 63 | 29,902 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Gibbons | 3,352 | 3 | 791 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Northmount | 3,349 | 60 | 28,046 | 1 | 0.5 km |
| Eaux Claires | 3,334 | 48 | 24,472 | 1 | 1 km |
| Wellington | 3,314 | 36 | 13,938 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Holyrood | 3,305 | 42 | 19,460 | 6 | 0.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
198 of the 219 others have more schools in reach. Teaching in French: 89 of the 220 have it.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Gibbons
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibbons | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Bon Accord 5.4 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Sturgeon County 16 km | 77 | 3 | 25 | 5.8 km |
| Fort Saskatchewan 16 km | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0.8 km |
Of the neighbours, Sturgeon County counts the most schools: 77.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Bands, not ranks. The fifths are of schools, not students: a small school counts as much as a large one.
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Boards and systems. Each board covers a territory in one language and one system, public or Catholic; boards of different systems overlap.
- The year. The 2025/26 list.
- The kinds of school. Grades shown are the published range, from junior kindergarten (JK) upward.
- Which schools count. Schools inside Gibbons and those within 3 km of its outline: a family nearby would weigh them all.
Questions about schools in Gibbons
Is there a French-language school in Gibbons?
Not near Gibbons: within 3 km there is none, and the French-language board points to the closest.
Which schools near Gibbons have the best results?
No school reaches the top fifth in Alberta; Gibbons School comes closest.
How do I get a place at a school in Gibbons?
Registration is with the board, which assigns the school for the home address.
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).