Photo: Sir-Mister-Horse · CC BY 4.02 schools serve Sundre, 2 secondary schools
Every school here answers to The Chinook's Edge School Division. Between them they teach 262 students (2025/26).
How Sundre’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 | 1 | 65% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 18% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area runs ahead, 18% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Sundre High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 65% · Excellence 18% | Middle 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 Sundre 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 Sundre
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.
Schooling in French isn’t on offer here.
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 Sundre’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
A single system: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Sundre
The neighbourhood school
Families enrol through the board, which assigns the school serving their street; transfers depend on space.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Sundre
High schools within reach of Sundre
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
One secondary school is within 15 km: Sundre High School, 0.5 km away.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sundre High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Chinook's Edge School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 250 | 0.5 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayliewan | 4,259 | 42 | 24,557 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| … | |||||
| Upper Mount Royal | 2,758 | 75 | 26,035 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Country Hills Village | 2,731 | 17 | 13,085 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Lee Ridge | 2,722 | 43 | 17,787 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Gold Bar | 2,685 | 40 | 17,763 | 2 | 1 km |
| Sundre | 2,683 | 2 | 262 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Cy Becker | 2,683 | 14 | 8,110 | 0 | 1.2 km |
| Highlands | 2,677 | 49 | 19,157 | 1 | 0.2 km |
| Meadowlark Park | 2,671 | 55 | 21,041 | 2 | 0.7 km |
| Hanna | 2,665 | 3 | 462 | 0 | 30 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
Set against 156 others, 146 have more schools in reach. 61 towns of the 157 have a French-language school.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside Sundre or within 3 km of it are here.
- The kinds of school. Kindergarten to Grade 8 is elementary, Grade 9 to 12 secondary, though the split varies by province and board.
- The year. Schools as listed for 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. Public and Catholic boards are both publicly funded here, in English and in French; an independent school answers to no board.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
- Bands, not ranks. Top fifth means a result among the best fifth of Alberta’s schools; the card shows a school’s average fifth.
Questions about schools in Sundre
How do I get a place at a school in Sundre?
Enrolment goes through the board; schools outside your area take students when they have room.
Is there a French-language school in Sundre?
There is none in or near Sundre (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
Which schools near Sundre have the best results?
None sits in the top fifth in Alberta; the strongest is Sundre High 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).