Photo: Glenlarson~commonswiki · Public domainIn the lower two fifths in Alberta: 4 of the 5 schools around Slave Lake with results
Top of the area on results: St. Mary Catholic School. They come under 4 school boards. In or within 3 km of Slave Lake: 2 elementary schools, 4 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade, with 2,155 students.
What stands out about Slave Lake’s schools
More Catholic schools
3 of 8 schools here are Catholic, against 18% in Alberta; The Living Waters Catholic Separate School Division and The Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School Division run them. Who runs them ↓
The strongest results
The area’s best results are at St. Mary Catholic School (all grades), in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Every figure here sets the area’s schools beside the rest of its province.
How Slave Lake’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 C+: 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 | 57% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 5 | 4% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area trails, 4% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (5)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| St. Mary Catholic SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 87% · Excellence 26% | Top fifth |
| Slave Lake Christian AcademyAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 75% · Excellence 4% | Fourth fifth |
| Roland Michener Secondary SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 47% · Excellence 7% | Bottom fifth |
| St. Francis of Assisi Catholic AcademySecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 50% · Excellence 0% | Bottom fifth |
| St. Mary of the LakeElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 57% · 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 4 boards runs which school
Every board or service centre with a school in the area, and its schools.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The High Prairie School DivisionRoland Michener, C J Schurter, Lakeside Outreach | English public | 3 | 1,069 |
| The Living Waters Catholic Separate School DivisionSt. Mary of the Lake, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Academy | English Catholic | 2 | 326 |
| Northern Lakes CollegeDistance Learning | Other | 1 | 390 |
| The Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionSt. Mary | English Catholic | 1 | 297 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 8 schools in and around Slave Lake are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
4 more have no point in the source and are listed below the map.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Slave Lake
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 Slave Lake’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
By the system they belong to: English public 3, English Catholic 3 and independent or other 2.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Slave Lake
Independent schools
Admission to an independent school is by its own rules; fees apply, lowered by partial provincial funding.
Catholic schools
Catholic separate schools are publicly funded here; each separate board decides whom it admits, Catholic families first.
The neighbourhood school
Each school serves a defined area. A place elsewhere is possible when that school has room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 8 schools in and around Slave Lake
High schools within reach of Slave Lake
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
2 secondary schools are within 15 km: 1 English Catholic and 1 English public. For the shortest journey, St. Mary Catholic School: 0.1 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Mary Catholic SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Top fifth | 297 | 0.1 km |
| Roland Michener Secondary SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The High Prairie School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 631 | 1.2 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Springs | 11,632 | 39 | 18,923 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| … | |||||
| Brentwood | 7,369 | 59 | 26,958 | 1 | 0.6 km |
| Bonnyville | 7,366 | 7 | 1,997 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Currie Barracks | 7,342 | 72 | 25,739 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Hamptons | 7,342 | 26 | 13,353 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| Slave Lake | 7,334 | 8 | 2,155 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| Cavanagh | 7,300 | 34 | 22,567 | 0 | 1.6 km |
| Kincora | 7,290 | 20 | 13,053 | 0 | 1 km |
| Athabasca County | 7,280 | 7 | 1,542 | 0 | 14 km |
| Erin Woods | 7,245 | 52 | 22,562 | 0 | 1.5 km |
| … | |||||
| Ormsby Place | 4,412 | 28 | 14,815 | 0 | 1 km |
201 of 234 similar towns count more schools. 106 towns of the 235 have 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 Slave Lake
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slave Lake | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0.1 km |
| Lesser Slave River No. 124 11 km | 5 | 0 | 2 | 9.9 km |
It has more schools than any of its 1 neighbours.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Inside Slave Lake’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.
- The year. 2025/26, the latest open list.
- Boards and systems. Each board covers a territory in one language and one system, public or Catholic; boards of different systems overlap.
- Bands, not ranks. A suppressed result gives no band; a school with both measures averages its fifths.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
Questions about schools in Slave Lake
How do I get a place at a school in Slave Lake?
Register with the board that runs the school: the address decides the designated school in each system, and the board can say which one it is.
Which boards run the schools in Slave Lake?
The High Prairie School Division (3), The Living Waters Catholic Separate School Division (2), Northern Lakes College (1) and The Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School Division (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
How many schools are there in Slave Lake?
The town holds all 8; none is outside it.
Is there a French-language school in Slave Lake?
No, none within 3 km of Slave Lake; ask the French-language board for 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).