Photo: Qwexcxewq · CC BY 4.0In and around Smoky Lake, 2 schools: 2 schools for every grade
The Aspen View School Division runs every one of them. Between them they teach 385 students (2025/26).
What stands out about Smoky Lake’s schools
The strongest results
The area’s best results are at H. A. Kostash 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 Smoky 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 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 | 80% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 25% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area runs ahead, 25% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| H. A. Kostash SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 80% · Excellence 25% | 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 2 schools in and around Smoky Lake are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
1 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 Smoky 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.
For schooling in French, families look further afield.
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 Smoky Lake’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Only one system is present here: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Smoky Lake
The neighbourhood school
Children go to the board’s designated school for their address, unless another school agrees to take them.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Smoky Lake
High schools within reach of Smoky Lake
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Only H. A. Kostash School is within 15 km, 0.5 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H. A. Kostash SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Aspen View School Division | English public | Top fifth | 375 | 0.5 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- What isn’t here. Provinces don’t grade schools by inspection; class sizes and enrolment over time aren’t in the open lists.
- Boards and systems. Public and Catholic boards are both publicly funded here, in English and in French; an independent school answers to no board.
- The year. The open list of 2025/26.
- 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. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside Smoky Lake or within 3 km of it are here.
Questions about schools in Smoky Lake
Is there a French-language school in Smoky Lake?
Not within 3 km of Smoky Lake. The French-language board still serves families here.
Which schools near Smoky Lake have the best results?
Those in the top fifth in Alberta: H. A. Kostash School.
How do I get a place at a school in Smoky Lake?
The board’s school locator gives the designated school; registration is with the board or 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).