Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Most schools around Morinville score below the middle in Alberta: 3 of 4
Catholic schools make up 4 of 7, above the 18% in Alberta. Counting a 3 km margin, Morinville has 4 elementary schools, 1 secondary school and 2 schools for every grade, for 4,814 students.
What stands out about Morinville’s schools
One big school
With 2,658 students, The Father’s House Christian School is the area’s biggest. Every school ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
How Morinville’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 D: 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 | 4 | 50% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 4 | 6% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area trails, 6% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (4)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Morinville Community High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 70% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Georges H Primeau SchoolElementary · Grades 6–8 | Acceptable 56% · Excellence 7% | Fourth fifth |
| Four Winds Public SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–9 | Acceptable 44% · Excellence 4% | Bottom fifth |
| The Father’s House Christian SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 8% · Excellence 1% | 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.
Who runs Morinville’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
By the system they belong to: English public 2, English Catholic 4 and independent or other 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
Where the 7 schools in and around Morinville are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
1 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 Morinville
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
For schooling in French, families look further afield.
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.
2 boards, school by school
Every board or service centre with a school in the area, and its schools.
Among 2 boards, The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School Division leads with 4.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionMorinville Community, Georges H Primeau, Notre Dame, St. Kateri Tekakwitha Academy | English Catholic | 4 | 1,358 |
| The Sturgeon School DivisionFour Winds, Morinville | English public | 2 | 798 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Morinville
Catholic schools
Here the Catholic schools form a funded separate system; non-Catholic families may apply where a board allows it.
Independent schools
Independent schools choose their students and charge fees, with part of their costs paid by the province when they qualify.
The neighbourhood school
Each school serves a defined area. A place elsewhere is possible when that school has room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 7 schools in and around Morinville
High schools within reach of Morinville
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Counting out to 15 km, there are 6: 5 English public and 1 English Catholic. Morinville Community High School is closest, at 0.3 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morinville Community High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Middle fifth | 500 | 0.3 km |
| Four Winds Public SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–9 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 425 | 1.2 km |
| Namao SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 402 | 13 km |
| Camilla SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | Second fifth | 461 | 13 km |
| Sturgeon Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 10–12 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | – | 997 | 14 km |
| Oak Hill SchoolAll grades · Grades 4–9 | The Sturgeon School Division | English public | – | 20 | 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summerside | 16,760 | 18 | 10,845 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| … | |||||
| Lake Bonavista | 11,154 | 63 | 28,636 | 2 | 1 km |
| Lacombe County | 11,072 | 21 | 5,960 | 0 | 2.8 km |
| Lethbridge County | 10,988 | 61 | 20,706 | 1 | 3.5 km |
| Yellowhead County | 10,966 | 19 | 4,751 | 0 | 17 km |
| Morinville | 10,763 | 7 | 4,814 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Whitecourt | 10,708 | 9 | 2,525 | 0 | 1.2 km |
| Ponoka County | 10,670 | 12 | 2,866 | 0 | 2.7 km |
| Hidden Valley | 10,614 | 27 | 19,070 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| Rundle | 10,549 | 70 | 32,069 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| … | |||||
| Sherwood | 6,537 | 19 | 11,613 | 0 | 0.4 km |
151 out of 167 comparable towns have more schools. A school in French is nearby in 68 towns of 168.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Morinville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morinville | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0.3 km |
| Sturgeon County 7.5 km | 77 | 3 | 25 | 5.8 km |
| Bon Accord 16 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Legal 17 km | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.3 km |
| St. Albert 18 km | 41 | 2 | 18 | 0.9 km |
Top among the neighbours: Sturgeon County, 77 schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. Schools are grouped by what they teach: elementary, secondary, every grade, and the alternative, adult and online programs.
- Which schools count. Every school inside Morinville’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
- What isn’t here. Ontario’s private schools aren’t in the open list; no province publishes inspection grades.
- Bands, not ranks. A suppressed result gives no band; a school with both measures averages its fifths.
- Boards and systems. A public school belongs to a board of one language; in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan a board is also public or Catholic. An independent school runs itself.
- The year. The province’s school list, 2025/26.
Questions about schools in Morinville
Is there a French-language school in Morinville?
Not near Morinville: within 3 km there is none, and the French-language board points to the closest.
How many schools are there in Morinville?
Every one of them, 7, is inside the town.
Which boards run the schools in Morinville?
The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School Division (4) and The Sturgeon School Division (2), with each one’s schools in brackets.
How do I get a place at a school in Morinville?
Contact the board: it names the school for your address and takes the registration.
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).