Photo: Saddle Hills County · CC BY-SA 4.0In and around Saddle Hills County, 3 schools: 1 elementary school and 2 schools for every grade
All of them are within the town’s own boundary. 101 students attend them (2025/26).
What stands out about Saddle Hills County’s schools
The strongest results
The area’s best results are at Ste. Marie Catholic School (elementary), in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Each finding compares the town’s schools with every school in its province.
How Saddle Hills 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 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 | 100% | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ste. Marie Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 100% · 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 Saddle Hills County 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 Saddle Hills County
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.
Not one 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 Saddle Hills County’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
By system, they split: English public 2 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
The 2 boards that run schools here
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
Of 2 boards, the largest here is The Peace Wapiti School Division, with 2.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peace Wapiti School DivisionDoe River Colony, Silver Valley Colony | English public | 2 | 28 |
| The Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionSte. Marie | English Catholic | 1 | 73 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Saddle Hills County
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.
Catholic schools
Separate boards admit by their own policies, most giving priority to Catholic families.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 3 schools in and around Saddle Hills County
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The provincial list for 2025/26.
- 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.
- 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. Inside Saddle Hills County’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
Questions about schools in Saddle Hills County
Which schools near Saddle Hills County have the best results?
Those in the top fifth in Alberta: Ste. Marie Catholic School.
How do I get a place at a school in Saddle Hills County?
Registration is with the board, which assigns the school for the home address.
Which boards run the schools in Saddle Hills County?
By number of schools: The Peace Wapiti School Division (2) and The Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School Division (1).
Is there a French-language school in Saddle Hills County?
Not in or within 3 km of Saddle Hills County; the French-language board can name the nearest.
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).