Photo: Mhalifu · CC BY-SA 3.0In the lower two fifths in Alberta: 4 of the 5 schools around Peace River with results
Top of the area on results: École des Quatre-Vents. No single board runs them all: there are 3. In or within 3 km of Peace River: 3 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade, with 1,918 students.
What stands out about Peace River’s schools
The strongest results
Top of the area: École des Quatre-Vents (all grades), its results in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
The comparisons are with the province’s schools, never across provinces.
How Peace River’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 | 5 | 56% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 5 | 9% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area trails, 9% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (5)
| 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 |
| 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.
Which of the 3 boards runs which school
The boards and their schools here.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peace River School DivisionSpringfield, T A Norris, Peace River, Peace Regional Outreach Campus, Bear Canyon Hutterite Colony | English public | 5 | 978 |
| 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 8 schools in and around Peace River 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 Peace River
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.
Schooling in French, 1 schools: École des Quatre-Vents, with The Northwest Francophone Education Region running the public ones.
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 Peace River’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
The split by system: English public 5, 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 Peace River
French-language schools
A child qualifies for a French-language school when a parent’s first language is French or a parent went to French school in Canada; an admissions committee can admit others.
Catholic schools
Here the Catholic schools form a funded separate system; non-Catholic families may apply where a board allows it.
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 8 schools in and around Peace River
High schools within reach of Peace River
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
6 secondary schools are within 15 km: 3 English public, 1 English Catholic, 1 French public and 1 other. First by distance comes Bear Canyon Hutterite Colony, at 0.1 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Canyon Hutterite ColonyAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Peace River School Division | English public | – | 15 | 0.1 km |
| Peace Regional Outreach CampusSecondary · Grades 10–12 | The Peace River School Division | English public | – | 124 | 1 km |
| Peace River High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Peace River School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 265 | 1.1 km |
| Glenmary SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Holy Family Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Fourth fifth | 419 | 1.7 km |
| École des Quatre-VentsAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Northwest Francophone Education Region | French public | Top fifth | 126 | 2.8 km |
| Peace River Learning CentreSecondary · Grades 10–12 | Northern Lakes College | Other | – | 14 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowness | 11,548 | 51 | 22,974 | 2 | 0.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Athabasca County | 7,280 | 7 | 1,542 | 0 | 14 km |
| Erin Woods | 7,245 | 52 | 22,562 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Lymburn | 7,231 | 40 | 20,014 | 0 | 1 km |
| Haysboro | 7,222 | 58 | 28,623 | 2 | 0.3 km |
| Peace River | 7,220 | 8 | 1,918 | 1 | 0.1 km |
| Inglewood | 7,167 | 59 | 25,831 | 2 | 0.7 km |
| Sherbrooke | 7,131 | 84 | 41,010 | 2 | 0.8 km |
| Cougar Ridge | 7,101 | 38 | 16,760 | 2 | 0.3 km |
| Rhatigan Ridge | 7,066 | 37 | 20,366 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Patricia Heights | 4,355 | 53 | 23,828 | 2 | 0.6 km |
Among 241 towns its size, 207 have more schools nearby. Of the 242, 108 offer a French-language school.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Peace River
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peace River | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0.1 km |
| Northern Sunrise County 9.7 km | 9 | 1 | 2 | 9.6 km |
| Peace No. 135 11 km | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4.8 km |
Among the neighbours, Northern Sunrise County has 9, the most.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. An all-grade school teaches from kindergarten through high school; elementary and secondary schools split those years.
- Which schools count. Every school inside Peace River’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- Bands, not ranks. A suppressed result gives no band; a school with both measures averages its fifths.
- Boards and systems. Each board covers a territory in one language and one system, public or Catholic; boards of different systems overlap.
- The year. Listed for 2025/26.
Questions about schools in Peace River
Is there a French-language school in Peace River?
Yes, schooling in French is at École des Quatre-Vents.
How many schools are there in Peace River?
All 8 are inside the town itself.
Which boards run the schools in Peace River?
The Peace River School Division (5), 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 Peace River?
Choose a system, then register with its board; the address decides the 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).