Photo: Authentic Alberta · CC BY-SA 4.02 schools serve Nanton, 1 elementary school and 1 secondary school
All of them belong to The Livingstone Range School Division. Of the 2 with published results, 1 land in the top two fifths in Alberta. 362 students attend them (2025/26).
What stands out about Nanton’s schools
The strongest results
The area’s best results are at A B Daley Community School (elementary), in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
How Nanton’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 | 77% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 2 | 16% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area runs ahead, 16% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| A B Daley Community SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 84% · Excellence 23% | Top fifth |
| J. T. Foster SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 71% · Excellence 10% | 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 Nanton are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Nanton
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.
There is no French-language school among them.
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 Nanton’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
A single system: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Nanton
The neighbourhood school
Attendance zones do the sorting here. Inside the zone a child is in; outside it, the answer turns on how full the school is.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Nanton
High schools within reach of Nanton
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Within 15 km, families can reach 3 high schools: 3 English public. The closest high school is J. T. Foster School, 0.3 km out.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. T. Foster SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Livingstone Range School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 180 | 0.3 km |
| Parkland Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades 1–9 | The Livingstone Range School Division | English public | – | 22 | 13 km |
| Cayley Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Foothills School Division | English public | – | 24 | 13 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Towns of a similar population, with their schools in or within 3 km; described, not ranked.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraser | 3,973 | 18 | 6,837 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| … | |||||
| High Prairie | 2,607 | 6 | 1,195 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Minchau | 2,576 | 43 | 20,392 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Magrath | 2,566 | 2 | 880 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Sexsmith | 2,561 | 6 | 1,234 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| Nanton | 2,522 | 2 | 362 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Elmwood | 2,522 | 52 | 21,442 | 2 | 0.1 km |
| Satoo | 2,517 | 37 | 16,393 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| Ekota | 2,509 | 42 | 18,190 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Rosedale | 2,507 | 62 | 28,170 | 1 | 0.2 km |
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
119 out of 126 comparable towns have more schools. Of the 127, 45 offer a French-language school.
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 year. 2025/26, the latest open list.
- Boards and systems. Public and Catholic boards are both publicly funded here, in English and in French; an independent school answers to no board.
- What isn’t here. Missing: inspection ratings (no province gives them), enrolment trends 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.
- Which schools count. Inside Nanton’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
- The kinds of school. Elementary schools run from kindergarten to Grade 6 or 8, secondary ones to Grade 12; some cover every grade, and alternative, adult and online schools are listed apart.
Questions about schools in Nanton
How do I get a place at a school in Nanton?
Choose a system, then register with its board; the address decides the school.
Is there a French-language school in Nanton?
There is none in or near Nanton (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).