Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Lac Ste. Anne County’s schools are public: 0 of 8 are Catholic, where in Alberta it is 18%
On the tests, 0 of 7 schools land above the middle in Alberta, 2 under it. The 3 km around Lac Ste. Anne County counts 5 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade, 1,925 students between them.
Who runs Lac Ste. Anne County’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
They belong to one system, every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How Lac Ste. Anne County’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 | 7 | 67% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 7 | 12% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 12% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (7)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Onoway Junior Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 8–12 | Acceptable 72% · Excellence 11% | Middle fifth |
| Sangudo Community SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 71% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Elmer Elson Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 63% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Mayerthorpe Junior Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 14% | Middle fifth |
| Onoway Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–7 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 15% | Middle fifth |
| Darwell SchoolElementary · Grades K–7 | Acceptable 49% · Excellence 8% | Bottom fifth |
| Grasmere SchoolElementary · Grades K–7 | Acceptable 60% · Excellence 5% | 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.
Where the 8 schools in and around Lac Ste. Anne County 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 Lac Ste. Anne County
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
Not one 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.
How children get a place in Lac Ste. Anne County
The neighbourhood school
Children go to the board’s designated school for their address, unless another school agrees to take them.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 8 schools in and around Lac Ste. Anne County
Towns its size in Alberta
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranston | 20,055 | 27 | 19,374 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| … | |||||
| New Brighton | 13,048 | 21 | 13,562 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Downtown | 12,880 | 62 | 26,290 | 6 | 0.4 km |
| Rutherford | 12,808 | 13 | 11,313 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Lakeview | 12,799 | 103 | 42,810 | 2 | 0.2 km |
| Lac Ste. Anne County | 12,639 | 8 | 1,925 | 0 | 17 km |
| Varsity | 12,605 | 72 | 32,635 | 2 | 0.3 km |
| Bridlewood | 12,547 | 26 | 14,372 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Chaparral | 12,522 | 30 | 17,770 | 0 | 2.1 km |
| Royal Oak | 12,343 | 30 | 14,426 | 1 | 0.3 km |
| … | |||||
| Altadore | 7,675 | 72 | 28,068 | 1 | 0.3 km |
125 out of 142 comparable towns have more schools. A school in French is nearby in 56 towns of 143.
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
- The kinds of school. The kind of school is what its province lists: elementary, secondary or both.
- Which schools count. The page takes in schools within Lac Ste. Anne County and up to 3 km past its boundary, so a school just over the line is still here.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
- Bands, not ranks. A band is the fifth of Alberta’s schools a result falls in, averaged over the two PAT measures; suppressed groups would make places misleading.
- Boards and systems. Each board covers a territory in one language and one system, public or Catholic; boards of different systems overlap.
- The year. Schools as listed for 2025/26.
Questions about schools in Lac Ste. Anne County
How many schools are there in Lac Ste. Anne County?
6 in the town, 2 just beyond it, within 3 km.
Is there a French-language school in Lac Ste. Anne County?
None within 3 km of Lac Ste. Anne County. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
How do I get a place at a school in Lac Ste. Anne County?
Ask the board which school serves your street, then register through it.
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).