Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0The 2 schools of Mayerthorpe: 1 elementary school and 1 secondary school
Every school here answers to The Northern Gateway School Division. 0 of its 2 schools with results sit in the top two fifths in Alberta. Their rolls add up to 609 students (2025/26).
How Mayerthorpe’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 | 2 | 65% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 2 | 13% | 13% |
No measure strays far from the province: the acceptable standard, the furthest, is 65% against 67% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 Mayerthorpe 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 Mayerthorpe
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
None of them 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 Mayerthorpe’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
One system runs them: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Mayerthorpe
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives settles it: the board’s map ties every address to one school, and a seat anywhere else waits on spare 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 Mayerthorpe
High schools within reach of Mayerthorpe
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Only Mayerthorpe Junior Senior High School is within 15 km, 0.8 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayerthorpe Junior Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Northern Gateway School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 285 | 0.8 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. A 3 km band around Mayerthorpe’s outline is included, as it is for every town on the site.
- The kinds of school. Elementary means kindergarten to Grade 6 or 8, secondary up to Grade 12 (Secondary V in Quebec); a few schools take every grade.
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Alberta publishes the share at each PAT standard and suppresses small groups, so the page gives fifths, not ranks.
- The year. The open list of 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. Every public school has a board: English or French, and in this province public or Catholic too. Independent schools have none.
Questions about schools in Mayerthorpe
How do I get a place at a school in Mayerthorpe?
Choose a system, then register with its board; the address decides the school.
Is there a French-language school in Mayerthorpe?
There is none in or near Mayerthorpe (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
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).