Photo: Jason Woodhead · CC BY 2.0The 3 schools of Paintearth County No. 18: 2 elementary schools and 1 school for every grade
Every school here answers to The Clearview School Division. Elementary schools here average 21 students; in Alberta, 274. Their rolls add up to 91 students (2025/26).
What stands out about Paintearth County No. 18’s schools
The strongest results
Brownfield Community School (all grades) posts the area’s strongest results: the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
The comparisons are with the province’s schools, never across provinces.
The 3 schools in and around Paintearth County No. 18
How Paintearth County No. 18’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 | 1 | 97% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 36% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 36% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Brownfield Community SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 97% · Excellence 36% | Top 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 3 schools in and around Paintearth County No. 18 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 Paintearth County No. 18
The language each school teaches in, against every school 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 Paintearth County No. 18’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 Paintearth County No. 18
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives sets the school: each board draws a catchment around every one of its schools, and a child living inside it has a place there. Other schools take children from outside when they have room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. Where a province publishes grades, the card gives them; elementary and secondary follow those grades.
- Which schools count. A school counts when it sits inside Paintearth County No. 18 or less than 3 km beyond its edge.
- Boards and systems. Boards are set by language and, in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan, by faith: public or Catholic.
- The year. The open list of 2025/26.
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Top fifth means a result among the best fifth of Alberta’s schools; the card shows a school’s average fifth.
Questions about schools in Paintearth County No. 18
How do I get a place at a school in Paintearth County No. 18?
Enrolment goes through the board; schools outside your area take students when they have room.
Is there a French-language school in Paintearth County No. 18?
Not near Paintearth County No. 18: within 3 km there is none, and the French-language board points to the closest.
Which schools near Paintearth County No. 18 have the best results?
In the top fifth in Alberta: Brownfield Community School.
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).