Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainIn the lower two fifths in Alberta: 3 of the 5 schools around Special Area No. 3 with results
Best placed: New Brigden School. 3 boards run its schools. In or within 3 km of Special Area No. 3: 7 elementary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 school for every grade, with 442 students.
What stands out about Special Area No. 3’s schools
Small elementary schools
At 32 students on average, against 274 in Alberta, the elementary schools are small. Every school ↓
The strongest results
New Brigden School (elementary) posts the area’s strongest results: the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
Every figure here sets the area’s schools beside the rest of its province.
How Special Area No. 3’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 | 58% | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| New Brigden SchoolElementary · Grades 2–6 | Acceptable 100% · Excellence 29% | Top fifth |
| Assumption Roman Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 73% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Oyen Public SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 57% · Excellence 3% | Bottom fifth |
| South Central High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 52% · Excellence 2% | Bottom fifth |
| Warren Peers SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 58% · Excellence 4% | 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 Prairie Rose School DivisionSouth Central, Oyen, Warren Peers, Jenner Colony, Acadia Colony, New Brigden, Prairie View Colony | English public | 7 | 368 |
| The Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate School DivisionAssumption Roman | English Catholic | 1 | 54 |
| The Prairie Land School DivisionWind River Colony | English public | 1 | 20 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 9 schools in and around Special Area No. 3 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 Special Area No. 3
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.
A French-language school would mean a trip out of the area.
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 Special Area No. 3’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 8 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Special Area No. 3
Catholic schools
Catholic schools are public here, run by separate boards that set their own admissions.
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.
The 9 schools in and around Special Area No. 3
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. Elementary and secondary come from the grades each school offers; a school offering both counts as all-grade.
- Which schools count. Schools inside Special Area No. 3 and those within 3 km of its outline: a family nearby would weigh them all.
- Boards and systems. The board is the public body that runs a school; this province has English and French boards, each public or Catholic.
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025/26.
- Bands, not ranks. Each result is placed in a fifth of Alberta’s schools on the same measure; a school’s band averages its fifths. Alberta suppresses small groups, so no school is ranked to the place.
- What isn’t here. There are no inspection ratings to show, and a single year of enrolment gives no trend.
Questions about schools in Special Area No. 3
Which boards run the schools in Special Area No. 3?
By number of schools: The Prairie Rose School Division (7), The Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate School Division (1) and The Prairie Land School Division (1).
How do I get a place at a school in Special Area No. 3?
Start with the board for the system you want; your address sets the school.
Is there a French-language school in Special Area No. 3?
Not within 3 km of Special Area No. 3. The French-language board still serves families here.
How many schools are there in Special Area No. 3?
8 in the town, 1 just beyond it, within 3 km.
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).