Photo: chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.02 schools in and around Improvement District No. 9 Banff: 1 elementary school and 1 secondary school
The Canadian Rockies School Division is the only board. Of the 2 with published results, 2 land in the top two fifths in Alberta. They enrol 534 students in all (2025/26).
What stands out about Improvement District No. 9 Banff’s schools
The strongest results
Banff Elementary School (elementary) posts the area’s strongest results: the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Every figure here sets the area’s schools beside the rest of its province.
How Improvement District No. 9 Banff’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 | 2 | 87% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 2 | 30% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 30% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Banff Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 89% · Excellence 42% | Top fifth |
| Banff Community High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 86% · Excellence 18% | Second 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 2 schools in and around Improvement District No. 9 Banff 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 Improvement District No. 9 Banff
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
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 Improvement District No. 9 Banff’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 Improvement District No. 9 Banff
The neighbourhood school
Boards set boundaries for each school; living inside one guarantees a place there, and moving across one usually means a request.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Improvement District No. 9 Banff
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school inside Improvement District No. 9 Banff’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
- 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.
- What isn’t here. Missing: inspection ratings (no province gives them), enrolment trends and Ontario’s private schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Top fifth means a result among the best fifth of Alberta’s schools; the card shows a school’s average fifth.
- The year. Listed for 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. English and French, public and Catholic: the board decides the system, and the address decides the school.
Questions about schools in Improvement District No. 9 Banff
Is there a French-language school in Improvement District No. 9 Banff?
Not in or within 3 km of Improvement District No. 9 Banff; the French-language board can name the nearest.
How do I get a place at a school in Improvement District No. 9 Banff?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an 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).