Most schools around Northern Lights County score below the middle in Alberta: 5 of 6
The strongest results are at École des Quatre-Vents. No single board runs them all: there are 3. Counting a 3 km margin, Northern Lights County has 3 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and 3 schools for every grade, for 2,223 students.
What stands out about Northern Lights County’s schools
The strongest results
The area’s best results are at École des Quatre-Vents (all grades), in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
How Northern Lights County’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 | 6 | 59% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 6 | 8% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area trails, 8% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (6)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| École des Quatre-VentsAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 89% · Excellence 39% | Top fifth |
| Glenmary SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 56% · Excellence 12% | Fourth fifth |
| Manning Aurora Composite SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 70% · Excellence 7% | Fourth fifth |
| Good Shepherd SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 62% · Excellence 9% | Fourth fifth |
| T A Norris Middle SchoolElementary · Grades 5–8 | Acceptable 38% · Excellence 6% | Bottom fifth |
| Peace River High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 49% · 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.
The 3 boards that run schools here
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peace River School DivisionSpringfield, Manning Aurora Composite, T A Norris, Peace River, Peace Regional Outreach Campus, Bear Canyon Hutterite Colony | English public | 6 | 1,283 |
| The Holy Family Catholic Separate School DivisionGlenmary, Good Shepherd | English Catholic | 2 | 814 |
| The Northwest Francophone Education Regiondes Quatre-Vents | French public | 1 | 126 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 9 schools in and around Northern Lights County 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 Northern Lights County
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
1 of them teach in French: École des Quatre-Vents; the public ones belong to The Northwest Francophone Education Region.
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 Northern Lights County’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
System by system: English public 6, English Catholic 2 and French-language 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Northern Lights County
French-language schools
The French boards take rights-holders’ children by right and others by committee.
Catholic schools
Here the Catholic schools form a funded separate system; non-Catholic families may apply where a board allows it.
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 9 schools in and around Northern Lights County
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westview Village | 6,590 | 110 | 45,976 | 4 | 1.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Malmo Plains | 4,150 | 52 | 23,182 | 1 | 0.3 km |
| Beaumaris | 4,125 | 49 | 24,881 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Elbow Park | 4,120 | 81 | 29,065 | 1 | 0.6 km |
| Forest Heights | 4,118 | 64 | 29,712 | 5 | 0.4 km |
| Northern Lights County | 4,115 | 9 | 2,223 | 1 | 17 km |
| Leger | 4,108 | 22 | 12,525 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Matt Berry | 4,093 | 31 | 17,196 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| Balwin | 4,092 | 57 | 25,577 | 1 | 0.5 km |
| Tuxedo Park | 4,082 | 53 | 21,099 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
220 of 271 similar towns count more schools. 114 of 272 have a school teaching in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Northern Lights County
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Lights County | 9 | 1 | 2 | 17 km |
| Manning 17 km | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 km |
No neighbour of the 1 counts more schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. Kindergarten to Grade 8 is elementary, Grade 9 to 12 secondary, though the split varies by province and board.
- Which schools count. A school counts when it sits inside Northern Lights County or less than 3 km beyond its edge.
- 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. 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.
- Boards and systems. Every public school has a board: English or French, and in this province public or Catholic too. Independent schools have none.
- The year. Schools as listed for 2025/26.
Questions about schools in Northern Lights County
How many schools are there in Northern Lights County?
0 in the town, 9 just beyond it, within 3 km.
Is there a French-language school in Northern Lights County?
Yes, there are French-language schools: École des Quatre-Vents.
Which boards run the schools in Northern Lights County?
The Peace River School Division (6), The Holy Family Catholic Separate School Division (2) and The Northwest Francophone Education Region (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
How do I get a place at a school in Northern Lights County?
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).