Photo: Joningham · CC BY-SA 4.0Innisfail’s 3 schools with results spread wide in Alberta, 0 in the top two fifths and 1 in the bottom two
Within 3 km of Innisfail are 2 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade, teaching 1,421 students.
How Innisfail’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 | 3 | 74% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 3 | 8% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 8% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| St. Marguerite BourgeoysAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 77% · Excellence 10% | Middle fifth |
| École Innisfail Middle SchoolElementary · Grades 5–8 | Acceptable 74% · Excellence 8% | Middle fifth |
| Innisfail High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 60% · Excellence 8% | Fourth 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 5 schools in and around Innisfail 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 Innisfail
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 Innisfail’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 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
2 boards, school by school
Every board or service centre with a school in the area, and its schools.
The Chinook's Edge School Division runs the most, 4 of them, among 2 boards.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chinook's Edge School DivisionJohn Wilson, Innisfail, Innisfail, Innisfail Career | English public | 4 | 1,118 |
| The Red Deer Catholic Separate School DivisionSt. Marguerite Bourgeoys | English Catholic | 1 | 303 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Innisfail
The neighbourhood school
Ask the board first. It holds the enrolment list and points each street to its own school; out-of-area requests go ahead only with space to spare.
Catholic schools
Here the Catholic schools form a funded separate system; non-Catholic families may apply where a board allows it.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 5 schools in and around Innisfail
High schools within reach of Innisfail
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Counting out to 15 km, there are 4: 3 English public and 1 English Catholic. St. Marguerite Bourgeoys lies closest, 0.6 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Marguerite BourgeoysAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Red Deer Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Middle fifth | 303 | 0.6 km |
| Innisfail High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Chinook's Edge School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 374 | 0.7 km |
| Innisfail Career High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Chinook's Edge School Division | English public | – | 14 | 1.5 km |
| Bowden (Grandview) SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Chinook's Edge School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 261 | 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copperfield | 13,952 | 22 | 15,476 | 0 | 1 km |
| … | |||||
| Silver Springs | 9,042 | 58 | 25,531 | 2 | 1.6 km |
| Grande Cache | 8,984 | 9 | 1,597 | 0 | 40 km |
| Camrose County | 8,951 | 26 | 4,269 | 1 | 12 km |
| Marlborough | 8,932 | 65 | 27,326 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Innisfail | 8,736 | 5 | 1,421 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Edson | 8,692 | 8 | 2,449 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Strathcona Park | 8,680 | 48 | 20,472 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Dalhousie | 8,617 | 51 | 21,586 | 2 | 0.6 km |
| Nolan Hill | 8,581 | 11 | 6,570 | 0 | 1.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Tweddle Place | 5,211 | 47 | 18,787 | 0 | 0.6 km |
204 out of 215 comparable towns have more schools. In 92 of the 216, at least one school teaches in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Innisfail
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innisfail | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0.6 km |
| Bowden 11 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Penhold 14 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Red Deer County 18 km | 57 | 1 | 17 | 3.8 km |
Red Deer County has the most schools nearby, 57.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What isn’t here. Missing: inspection ratings (no province gives them), enrolment trends and Ontario’s private schools.
- Bands, not ranks. A suppressed result gives no band; a school with both measures averages its fifths.
- The year. The province’s school list, 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. The board is the public body that runs a school; this province has English and French boards, each public or Catholic.
- Which schools count. The area is Innisfail plus a 3 km margin around it, measured from its census outline.
- The kinds of school. Each school is elementary, secondary or all-grade by the grades it teaches; alternative, adult and online programs sit in a group of their own.
Questions about schools in Innisfail
How many schools are there in Innisfail?
All 5 sit within the town’s own boundary.
Is there a French-language school in Innisfail?
None within 3 km of Innisfail. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
How do I get a place at a school in Innisfail?
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.
Which boards run the schools in Innisfail?
By number of schools: The Chinook's Edge School Division (4) and The Red Deer Catholic Separate School Division (1).
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).