Photo: Kmsiever · Public domainThe schools around Lethbridge answer to 4 boards
The largest is The Lethbridge School Division, with 27; beside it are The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division, The Palliser School Division and The Southern Francophone Education Region. Of its 19 tested schools, 6 sit in the top two fifths in Alberta and 5 in the bottom two. Taken together, Lethbridge and its 3 km edge hold 32 elementary schools, 9 secondary schools and 11 schools for every grade for 17,504 students.
What stands out about Lethbridge’s schools
One big school
With 1,526 students, Lethbridge Collegiate Institute is the area’s biggest. Every school ↓
The strongest results
École La Vérendrye (all grades) posts the area’s strongest results: the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
4 boards, school by school
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lethbridge School DivisionLethbridge, Chinook, Winston Churchill, Gilbert Paterson, Wilson, G. S. Lakie, Senator Joyce Fairbairn, Ecole Agnes Davidson … | English public | 27 | 12,255 |
| The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionCatholic Central, St. Francis Junior, Father Leonard Van Tighem, Ecole St. Mary, St. Teresa of Calcutta, St. Paul, St. Patrick Fine Arts, Children of St. Martha … | English Catholic | 11 | 4,377 |
| The Palliser School DivisionCoalhurst, Palliser Home Education, Allenby Colony, Gold Ridge Colony, Hofmann Colony, Skylight Colony, Springridge Colony, Chin Lakes Colony | English public | 8 | 491 |
| The Southern Francophone Education RegionLa Vérendrye | French public | 1 | 207 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How Lethbridge’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 | 19 | 68% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 19 | 13% | 13% |
On every measure the area sits close to the provincial middle; the acceptable standard is 68% here, 67% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (19)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| École La VérendryeAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 89% · Excellence 28% | Top fifth |
| Immanuel Christian Secondary SchoolAll grades · Grades 6–12 | Acceptable 77% · Excellence 25% | Second fifth |
| Our Lady of The Assumption SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 80% · Excellence 16% | Second fifth |
| Gilbert Paterson Middle SchoolElementary · Grades 6–8 | Acceptable 71% · Excellence 16% | Second fifth |
| St. Francis Junior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–9 | Acceptable 78% · Excellence 21% | Second fifth |
| St. Patrick Fine Arts Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 77% · Excellence 16% | Second fifth |
| Coalhurst Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 74% · Excellence 14% | Middle fifth |
| Ecole St. Mary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 64% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Father Leonard Van Tighem SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 71% · Excellence 13% | Middle fifth |
| G. S. Lakie Middle SchoolElementary · Grades 6–8 | Acceptable 64% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Lethbridge Christian SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 11% | Middle fifth |
| Lethbridge Collegiate InstituteSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 68% · Excellence 14% | Middle fifth |
| Senator Joyce Fairbairn Middle SchoolElementary · Grades 6–8 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 13% | Middle fifth |
| St. Teresa of Calcutta SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 69% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Chinook High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 56% · Excellence 11% | Fourth fifth |
| Wilson Middle SchoolElementary · Grades 6–8 | Acceptable 57% · Excellence 9% | Fourth fifth |
| Winston Churchill High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 46% · Excellence 5% | Bottom fifth |
| Children of St. Martha SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 43% · Excellence 5% | Bottom fifth |
| St. Paul Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 42% · Excellence 3% | 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 52 schools in and around Lethbridge are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
7 more have no point in the source and are listed below the map.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Lethbridge
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in Alberta marked.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
Schooling in French, 1 schools: École La Vérendrye, with The Southern Francophone Education Region running the public ones.
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 Lethbridge’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Their systems: English public 35, English Catholic 11, French-language 1 and independent or other 5.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Lethbridge
French-language schools
Section 23 rights-holders, francophone parents or those schooled in French in Canada, have a place; others apply to the board’s committee.
Independent schools
Independent schools set their own admissions and fees; the province funds part of their costs where they meet its conditions.
Catholic schools
A separate (Catholic) board runs its own schools with public money and its own admission rules.
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 52 schools in and around Lethbridge
Show all 32 elementary schools
High schools within reach of Lethbridge
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Within 15 km, families can reach 15 high schools: 9 English public, 5 English Catholic and 1 French public. 2 km away, Lethbridge Collegiate Institute is the nearest.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lethbridge Collegiate InstituteSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Lethbridge School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 1,526 | 2 km |
| CARE (Centre for Adolescent Responsibility Education) OutreachSecondary · Grades 7–9 | The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | – | 10 | 2.2 km |
| St. Francis Junior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–9 | The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Second fifth | 712 | 2.2 km |
| Pitawani SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Lethbridge School Division | English public | – | 9 | 2.3 km |
| Immanuel Christian Secondary SchoolAll grades · Grades 6–12 | The Lethbridge School Division | English public | Second fifth | 356 | 2.3 km |
| Trinity Learning CentreSecondary · Grades 10–12 | The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | – | 52 | 2.3 km |
| Catholic Central High SchoolSecondary · Grades 10–12 | The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | – | 1,020 | 2.3 km |
| Stafford Ridge SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Lethbridge School Division | English public | – | 4 | 2.3 km |
| École La VérendryeAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Southern Francophone Education Region | French public | Top fifth | 207 | 2.4 km |
| Victoria Park High SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–12 | The Lethbridge School Division | English public | – | 284 | 2.9 km |
All 15 secondary schools
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father Leonard Van Tighem SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Middle fifth | 693 | 3.5 km |
| Winston Churchill High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Lethbridge School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 974 | 4.1 km |
| Chinook High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Lethbridge School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 1,203 | 5 km |
| Skylight Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Palliser School Division | English public | – | 16 | 5.5 km |
| Coalhurst High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Palliser School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 212 | 9.2 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Canadian towns its size
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbotsford | 175,358 | 79 | — | 1 | 1.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Thunder Bay | 117,671 | 44 | 15,300 | 4 | 3 km |
| Red Deer | 115,409 | 49 | 19,670 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Bowmanville | 114,180 | 60 | 32,365 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Niagara Falls | 113,983 | 48 | 18,410 | 3 | 0.4 km |
| Lethbridge | 113,671 | 52 | 17,504 | 1 | 2 km |
| Chatham | 112,716 | 45 | 14,950 | 6 | 0.9 km |
| Nanaimo | 111,845 | 39 | — | 2 | 1.3 km |
| Kamloops | 108,793 | 42 | — | 1 | 2.5 km |
| Strathcona County | 107,345 | 85 | 40,852 | 2 | 0.8 km |
| … | |||||
| Georgetown | 68,265 | 44 | 22,165 | 3 | 1.5 km |
28 out of 61 comparable towns have more schools. A school in French is nearby in 59 towns of 62.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Lethbridge
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lethbridge | 52 | 1 | 16 | 2 km |
| Coalhurst 8.5 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Coaldale 16 km | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0.3 km |
| Lethbridge County 18 km | 61 | 1 | 19 | 3.5 km |
61 schools make Lethbridge County the best supplied neighbour.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. A school counts when it sits inside Lethbridge or less than 3 km beyond its edge.
- The kinds of school. Schools are grouped by what they teach: elementary, secondary, every grade, and the alternative, adult and online programs.
- What isn’t here. Inspection reports with ratings don’t exist here, and the lists give enrolment for one year at most.
- Bands, not ranks. Each result is placed in a fifth of Alberta’s schools on the same measure; a school’s band averages its fifths. Alberta suppresses small groups, so no school is ranked to the place.
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. Boards are set by language and, in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan, by faith: public or Catholic.
Questions about schools in Lethbridge
Is there a French-language school in Lethbridge?
Yes, schooling in French is at École La Vérendrye.
How many schools are there in Lethbridge?
The town holds 51 of them; 1 more are within 3 km of its outline.
How do I get a place at a school in Lethbridge?
The board’s school locator gives the designated school; registration is with the board or the school.
Which boards run the schools in Lethbridge?
By number of schools: The Lethbridge School Division (27), The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division (11), The Palliser School Division (8) and The Southern Francophone Education Region (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).