Photo: Qyd · CC BY-SA 3.0Results around Hinton lean low: 3 of 4 schools in the lower two fifths in Alberta
Best placed: Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic School. The Catholic boards run 2 of its 6 schools, against 18% in Alberta. Counting a 3 km margin, Hinton has 3 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade, for 1,745 students.
What stands out about Hinton’s schools
The strongest results
The area’s best results are at Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic School (all grades), in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
How Hinton’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 C+: 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 | 53% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 4 | 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 (4)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–12 | Acceptable 83% · Excellence 23% | Top fifth |
| Crescent Valley SchoolElementary · Grades K–7 | Acceptable 53% · Excellence 11% | Fourth fifth |
| Harry Collinge High SchoolSecondary · Grades 8–12 | Acceptable 53% · Excellence 9% | Fourth fifth |
| Ecole Mountain View SchoolElementary · Grades K–7 | Acceptable 48% · 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.
Who runs Hinton’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Split by system, that is English public 4 and English Catholic 2.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
Where the 6 schools in and around Hinton are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Hinton
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix 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.
Which of the 2 boards runs which school
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
The Grande Yellowhead School Division has 4 of the area’s schools, the most of the 2 boards.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grande Yellowhead School DivisionEcole Mountain View, Harry Collinge, Crescent Valley, The Learning Connection - Hinton | English public | 4 | 1,235 |
| The Evergreen Catholic Separate School DivisionFather Gerard Redmond Community, St. Gregory | English Catholic | 2 | 510 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Hinton
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives sets the school: each board draws a catchment around every one of its schools, and a child living inside it has a place there. Other schools take children from outside when they have room.
Catholic schools
Catholic separate schools are publicly funded here; each separate board decides whom it admits, Catholic families first.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 6 schools in and around Hinton
High schools within reach of Hinton
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Within 15 km, families can reach 3 high schools: 2 English public and 1 English Catholic. For the shortest journey, Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic School: 1.2 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–12 | The Evergreen Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Top fifth | 297 | 1.2 km |
| Harry Collinge High SchoolSecondary · Grades 8–12 | The Grande Yellowhead School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 454 | 2 km |
| The Learning Connection - HintonSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Grande Yellowhead School Division | English public | – | 71 | 3.2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorncliffe | 15,570 | 57 | 27,386 | 1 | 1 km |
| … | |||||
| Citadel | 10,196 | 29 | 12,276 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Glenbrook | 10,185 | 63 | 24,866 | 1 | 0.4 km |
| Taber | 10,175 | 28 | 2,730 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| Wheatland County | 10,150 | 31 | 5,582 | 0 | 11 km |
| Hinton | 10,124 | 6 | 1,745 | 0 | 1.1 km |
| Pineridge | 10,062 | 53 | 27,600 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Penbrooke Meadows | 10,001 | 48 | 21,757 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Acadia | 9,950 | 62 | 26,966 | 2 | 0.3 km |
| River Valley Oleskiw | 9,922 | 61 | 30,332 | 1 | 1.8 km |
| … | |||||
| MacEwan | 6,102 | 16 | 10,786 | 0 | 1.4 km |
Of the 183 others, 172 count more schools. Teaching in French: 75 of the 184 have it.
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
- Boards and systems. Boards are set by language and, in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan, by faith: public or Catholic.
- The year. The province’s school list, 2025/26.
- What isn’t here. Missing: inspection ratings (no province gives them), enrolment trends and Ontario’s private schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Bands compare within Alberta only: never a place in a league table.
- The kinds of school. The kind of school is what its province lists: elementary, secondary or both.
- Which schools count. A school counts when it sits inside Hinton or less than 3 km beyond its edge.
Questions about schools in Hinton
Which boards run the schools in Hinton?
The Grande Yellowhead School Division (4) and The Evergreen Catholic Separate School Division (2), with each one’s schools in brackets.
How do I get a place at a school in Hinton?
Register with the board that runs the school: the address decides the designated school in each system, and the board can say which one it is.
How many schools are there in Hinton?
Every one of them, 6, is inside the town.
Is there a French-language school in Hinton?
Not near Hinton: 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).