Photo: R. Sieben · CC BY 3.0In the lower two fifths in Alberta: 3 of the 4 schools around Starland County with results
Its schools answer to 3 boards. The 3 km around Starland County counts 4 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools and 6 schools for every grade, 1,454 students between them.
What stands out about Starland County’s schools
Small elementary schools
Elementary schools here average 98 students, against 274 in Alberta. Every school ↓
The comparisons are with the province’s schools, never across provinces.
How Starland 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 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 | 4 | 67% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 4 | 9% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 9% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (4)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| St. Anthony's SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 70% · Excellence 19% | Middle fifth |
| Delia SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 6% | Fourth fifth |
| Greentree SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 67% · Excellence 10% | Fourth fifth |
| Drumheller Valley Secondary SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 47% · Excellence 8% | 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
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Prairie Land School DivisionDelia, Starland Colony, Blue Sky Colony, Cloverleaf Colony, Verdant Valley Colony, East River Colony, Craigmyle Colony, Neu Muehl Colony | English public | 8 | 220 |
| The Golden Hills School DivisionDrumheller Valley, Greentree, Drumheller Outreach | English public | 3 | 781 |
| The Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate School DivisionSt. Anthony's | English Catholic | 1 | 453 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 12 schools in and around Starland County 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 Starland County
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Alberta.
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 Starland County’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
The split by system: English public 11 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Starland County
Catholic schools
Separate boards admit by their own policies, most giving priority to Catholic families.
The neighbourhood school
The neighbourhood school is the one the board designates for the address; choice beyond it depends on space.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 12 schools in and around Starland County
High schools within reach of Starland County
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
2 secondary schools are within 15 km: 2 English public. Closest of all: Blue Sky Colony School (5.1 km).
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Sky Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Prairie Land School Division | English public | – | 22 | 5.1 km |
| Cloverleaf ColonyAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Prairie Land School Division | English public | – | 19 | 12 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. Grades shown are the published range, from junior kindergarten (JK) upward.
- Which schools count. The page takes in schools within Starland County and up to 3 km past its boundary, so a school just over the line is still here.
- Boards and systems. A public school belongs to a board of one language; in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan a board is also public or Catholic. An independent school runs itself.
- The year. The open list of 2025/26.
- 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. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
Questions about schools in Starland County
Which boards run the schools in Starland County?
By number of schools: The Prairie Land School Division (8), The Golden Hills School Division (3) and The Christ the Redeemer Catholic Separate School Division (1).
How do I get a place at a school in Starland County?
Choose a system, then register with its board; the address decides the school.
Is there a French-language school in Starland County?
Not in or within 3 km of Starland County; the French-language board can name the nearest.
How many schools are there in Starland County?
The town holds 8 of them; 4 more are within 3 km of its outline.
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).