Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0The 2 schools of Legal: 2 schools for every grade
None lies outside the town. Of the 2 with published results, 1 land in the top two fifths in Alberta. 249 students attend them (2025/26).
How Legal’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 | 84% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 2 | 9% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the standard of excellence: 9% here, against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| École CitadelleAll grades · Grades K–10 | Acceptable 100% · Excellence 11% | Second fifth |
| Legal SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 68% · Excellence 7% | 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 2 schools in and around Legal 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 Legal
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
École Citadelle teach in French; The Greater North Central Francophone Education Region runs the public ones among the 1.
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 Legal’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Their systems: English Catholic 1 and French-language 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
2 boards, school by school
The boards and their schools here.
Of 2 boards, the largest here is The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School Division, with 1.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionLegal | English Catholic | 1 | 163 |
| The Greater North Central Francophone Education RegionCitadelle | French public | 1 | 86 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Legal
Catholic schools
A separate (Catholic) board runs its own schools with public money and its own admission rules.
French-language schools
Eligibility comes from the parents: French as a first language, or French schooling in Canada; otherwise, the board’s admissions committee decides.
The neighbourhood school
Each board draws attendance areas: a child’s home address gives a designated school in each system. Families register with the board, and a school outside the area takes a child only if it has room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Legal
High schools within reach of Legal
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Counting out to 15 km, there are 2: 1 English Catholic and 1 French public. Legal School lies closest, 0.3 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Fourth fifth | 163 | 0.3 km |
| École CitadelleAll grades · Grades K–10 | The Greater North Central Francophone Education Region | French public | Second fifth | 86 | 0.4 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Schools in the towns around Legal
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.3 km |
| Morinville 17 km | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0.3 km |
| Bon Accord 17 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 km |
Top among the neighbours: Morinville, 7 schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school inside Legal’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
- 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.
- The year. The 2025/26 list.
- Boards and systems. A school’s system is its board’s: the language it teaches in, and whether the board is public or Catholic.
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- 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.
Questions about schools in Legal
How do I get a place at a school in Legal?
Contact the board: it names the school for your address and takes the registration.
Is there a French-language school in Legal?
Yes, there are French-language schools: École Citadelle.
Which boards run the schools in Legal?
The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School Division (1) and The Greater North Central Francophone Education Region (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).