Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Swan Hills School is the only school in and around Swan Hills
Its board is The Pembina Hills School Division; it is All grades · Grades K–12.
How Swan Hills’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 D: 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 | 45% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 1 | 6% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the standard of excellence: 6% here, against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (1)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Swan Hills SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 45% · Excellence 6% | 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.
Where the school in or near Swan Hills is
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).
How children get a place in Swan Hills
The neighbourhood school
Ask the board first. It holds the enrolment list and points each street to its own school; out-of-area requests go ahead only with space to spare.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The school in and around Swan Hills
High schools within reach of Swan Hills
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Swan Hills School, 0.5 km away, is the only secondary school within 15 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swan Hills SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Pembina Hills School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 188 | 0.5 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- The year. Listed for 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. The board is the public body that runs a school; this province has English and French boards, each public or Catholic.
- Which schools count. Inside Swan Hills’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
- 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.
Questions about schools in Swan Hills
How many schools are there in Swan Hills?
All 1 sit within the town’s own boundary.
Is there a French-language school in Swan Hills?
There is none in or near Swan Hills (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
How do I get a place at a school in Swan Hills?
Choose a system, then register with its board; the address decides the school.
Which schools near Swan Hills have the best results?
No school reaches the top fifth in Alberta; Swan Hills School comes closest.
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).