High Prairie’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Alberta, 4 of the 4 with results
Its schools answer to 3 boards. Taken together, High Prairie and its 3 km edge hold 2 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade for 1,195 students.
What stands out about High Prairie’s schools
Small elementary schools
Elementary schools here average 161 students, against 274 in Alberta. Every school ↓
Every figure here sets the area’s schools beside the rest of its province.
How High Prairie’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 | 4 | 39% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 4 | 3% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 3% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (4)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Bishop Routhier SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 0% · Excellence 0% | Bottom fifth |
| High Prairie Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 42% · Excellence 3% | Bottom fifth |
| Prairie River Junior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–9 | Acceptable 40% · Excellence 4% | Bottom fifth |
| St. Andrew's SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 39% · Excellence 2% | 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 3 boards that run schools here
The boards and their schools here.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The High Prairie School DivisionHigh Prairie, E W Pratt, Prairie River Junior, Prairie View Outreach | English public | 4 | 731 |
| The Holy Family Catholic Separate School DivisionSt. Andrew's | English Catholic | 1 | 398 |
| The Northland School DivisionBishop Routhier | English public | 1 | 66 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 6 schools in and around High Prairie are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
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 High Prairie
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in Alberta marked.
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 High Prairie’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
By system, they split: English public 5 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in High Prairie
Catholic schools
A separate (Catholic) board runs its own schools with public money and its own admission rules.
The neighbourhood school
Each school serves a defined area. A place elsewhere is possible when that school has room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 6 schools in and around High Prairie
High schools within reach of High Prairie
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Counting out to 15 km, there are 3: 2 English public and 1 English Catholic. The shortest trip is to St. Andrew's School, 0.6 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Andrew's SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Holy Family Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Bottom fifth | 398 | 0.6 km |
| E W Pratt High SchoolSecondary · Grades 10–12 | The High Prairie School Division | English public | – | 253 | 0.7 km |
| Prairie River Junior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–9 | The High Prairie School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 161 | 0.8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Heights | 4,195 | 28 | 12,537 | 0 | 1.2 km |
| … | |||||
| Meadowlark Park | 2,671 | 55 | 21,041 | 2 | 0.7 km |
| Hanna | 2,665 | 3 | 462 | 0 | 30 km |
| Delton | 2,657 | 60 | 30,992 | 2 | 1.2 km |
| Sweet Grass | 2,616 | 31 | 17,852 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| High Prairie | 2,607 | 6 | 1,195 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Minchau | 2,576 | 43 | 20,392 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Magrath | 2,566 | 2 | 880 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Sexsmith | 2,561 | 6 | 1,234 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| Nanton | 2,522 | 2 | 362 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
More schools are within reach in 120 of the 151 other towns. 60 towns of the 152 have a French-language school.
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
- Which schools count. Schools inside High Prairie and those within 3 km of its outline: a family nearby would weigh them all.
- The kinds of school. The levels follow each school’s published grades: elementary below Grade 7 or 9, secondary above, all-grade when it runs the whole way.
- 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.
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025/26.
- 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.
Questions about schools in High Prairie
How many schools are there in High Prairie?
All 6 are inside the town itself.
Is there a French-language school in High Prairie?
There is none in or near High Prairie (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
How do I get a place at a school in High Prairie?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
Which boards run the schools in High Prairie?
The High Prairie School Division (4), The Holy Family Catholic Separate School Division (1) and The Northland School Division (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
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).