Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0Around Three Hills, 2 schools for every grade: 2 schools in all
The Golden Hills School Division is the only board. On results, 2 of 2 tested schools are in the upper two fifths in Alberta. 765 students attend them (2025/26).
What stands out about Three Hills’s schools
The strongest results
Prairie Christian Academy (all grades) 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 Three 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 A: 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 | 2 | 78% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 2 | 19% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 19% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Prairie Christian AcademyAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 82% · Excellence 23% | Top fifth |
| Three Hills SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 74% · Excellence 16% | Second 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 Three Hills 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 Three Hills
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 Three Hills’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
One system runs them: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Three Hills
The neighbourhood school
Registration happens with the board, not the school; the board names the school for the address.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Three Hills
High schools within reach of Three Hills
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
3 secondary schools are within 15 km: 3 English public. The closest high school is Three Hills School, 0.4 km out.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Hills SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Golden Hills School Division | English public | Second fifth | 421 | 0.4 km |
| Prairie Christian AcademyAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Golden Hills School Division | English public | Top fifth | 344 | 1 km |
| Trochu Valley SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Golden Hills School Division | English public | Middle fifth | 286 | 14 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Places of about the same size and their schools in or within 3 km, largest first.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystallina Nera East | 5,566 | 31 | 16,924 | 0 | 1.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Ramsay | 3,601 | 108 | 47,230 | 1 | 0.1 km |
| Opportunity No. 17 | 3,592 | 3 | 451 | 0 | 5.2 km |
| Thorncliff | 3,564 | 45 | 17,924 | 2 | 1 km |
| Downtown East Village | 3,524 | 49 | 23,970 | 1 | 0.4 km |
| Three Hills | 3,502 | 2 | 765 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Delwood | 3,491 | 57 | 27,570 | 1 | 0.5 km |
| Daly Grove | 3,486 | 36 | 16,814 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Richfield | 3,456 | 42 | 16,929 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Sakaw | 3,453 | 35 | 17,736 | 0 | 1.4 km |
| … | |||||
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 4 | 823 | 0 | 12 km |
Set against 227 others, 216 have more schools in reach. In 92 of the 228, at least one school teaches in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Three Hills
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Hills | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Kneehill County 2.1 km | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1.2 km |
| Trochu 14 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 km |
Among the neighbours, Kneehill County has 13, the most.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Bands, not ranks. Bands compare within Alberta only: never a place in a league table.
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- Boards and systems. English and French, public and Catholic: the board decides the system, and the address decides the school.
- The year. 2025/26, the latest open list.
- The kinds of school. Elementary means kindergarten to Grade 6 or 8, secondary up to Grade 12 (Secondary V in Quebec); a few schools take every grade.
- Which schools count. Inside Three Hills’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
Questions about schools in Three Hills
How do I get a place at a school in Three Hills?
Register with the board that runs the school: the address decides the designated school in each system, and the board can say which one it is.
Is there a French-language school in Three Hills?
Not near Three Hills: within 3 km there is none, and the French-language board points to the 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).