Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.01 above the middle in Alberta, 1 below: Stettler’s 3 tested schools
Top of the area on results: Stettler Elementary School. Taken together, Stettler and its 3 km edge hold 2 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade for 1,548 students.
How Stettler’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 | 3 | 76% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 3 | 13% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the acceptable standard, where the area’s schools reach 76% against 67% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Stettler Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 76% · Excellence 18% | Second fifth |
| William E Hay Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 78% · Excellence 13% | Middle fifth |
| Christ-King Catholic SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 62% · Excellence 7% | Fourth 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 5 schools in and around Stettler 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 Stettler
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
All teach in the province’s majority language; none 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 Stettler’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Counted by who runs them: English public 4 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
2 boards, school by school
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
Of 2 boards, the largest here is The Clearview School Division, with 4.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Clearview School DivisionWilliam E Hay, Stettler, Stettler Outreach, Silver Spring Colony | English public | 4 | 1,355 |
| The East Central Alberta Catholic Separate School DivisionChrist-King | English Catholic | 1 | 193 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Stettler
Catholic schools
The province funds Catholic separate schools beside the public ones. Each separate board sets its own admission rules, usually giving Catholic families first place.
The neighbourhood school
Boards set boundaries for each school; living inside one guarantees a place there, and moving across one usually means a request.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 5 schools in and around Stettler
High schools within reach of Stettler
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
4 secondary schools are within 15 km: 3 English public and 1 English Catholic. 0.3 km away, Christ-King Catholic School is the nearest.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christ-King Catholic SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The East Central Alberta Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Fourth fifth | 193 | 0.3 km |
| William E Hay Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Clearview School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 700 | 0.5 km |
| Stettler Outreach SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Clearview School Division | English public | – | 56 | 0.8 km |
| Erskine SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Clearview School Division | English public | Top fifth | 150 | 11 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Towns of a similar population, with their schools in or within 3 km; described, not ranked.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnessy | 9,696 | 36 | 19,540 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Alberta Avenue | 6,097 | 60 | 29,376 | 3 | 1 km |
| Southwood | 6,092 | 58 | 26,075 | 2 | 0.1 km |
| Dunluce | 6,079 | 43 | 18,116 | 1 | 1 km |
| Homesteader | 6,059 | 45 | 19,799 | 0 | 1.1 km |
| Stettler | 6,035 | 5 | 1,548 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Crowsnest Pass | 6,011 | 4 | 687 | 1 | 3.3 km |
| Caernarvon | 5,972 | 44 | 18,975 | 1 | 0.6 km |
| Stettler County No. 6 | 5,966 | 16 | 2,021 | 0 | 3.8 km |
| Ellerslie | 5,963 | 28 | 16,224 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| … | |||||
| Ramsay | 3,601 | 108 | 47,230 | 1 | 0.1 km |
More schools than here: 248 of the 272 others. A school in French is nearby in 123 towns of 273.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Stettler
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stettler | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0.3 km |
| Stettler County No. 6 4.5 km | 16 | 0 | 2 | 3.8 km |
The neighbour with most schools is Stettler County No. 6 (16).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school inside Stettler’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
- The kinds of school. The levels follow each school’s published grades: elementary below Grade 7 or 9, secondary above, all-grade when it runs the whole way.
- The year. Schools as listed for 2025/26.
- 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.
- What isn’t here. No province rates its schools by inspection, and enrolment covers one year (Ontario and Alberta only), so there is no trend.
- Bands, not ranks. Fifths are worked out among every Alberta school with a PAT result, then averaged per school.
Questions about schools in Stettler
How do I get a place at a school in Stettler?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
Which boards run the schools in Stettler?
The Clearview School Division (4) and The East Central Alberta Catholic Separate School Division (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
Is there a French-language school in Stettler?
There is none in or near Stettler (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
How many schools are there in Stettler?
All 5 are inside the town itself.
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).