Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.5Most schools around Vauxhall score below the middle in Alberta: 2 of 3
Counting a 3 km margin, Vauxhall has 1 elementary school and 2 secondary schools, for 363 students.
How Vauxhall’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 C+: 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 | 65% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 3 | 6% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area trails, 6% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Vauxhall Junior Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 76% · Excellence 6% | Middle fifth |
| Vauxhall Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 57% · Excellence 12% | Fourth fifth |
| Horizon MAP SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 65% · Excellence 5% | 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 3 schools in and around Vauxhall are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
2 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 Vauxhall
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
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 Vauxhall’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 Vauxhall
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 3 schools in and around Vauxhall
Schools in the towns around Vauxhall
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vauxhall | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 km |
| Taber 18 km | 33 | 0 | 2 | 12 km |
Of the neighbours, Taber counts the most schools: 33.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Bands, not ranks. Top fifth means a result among the best fifth of Alberta’s schools; the card shows a school’s average fifth.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
- Boards and systems. Every public school has a board: English or French, and in this province public or Catholic too. Independent schools have none.
- The year. Listed for 2025/26.
- 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. Every school inside Vauxhall’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
Questions about schools in Vauxhall
Is there a French-language school in Vauxhall?
Not in or within 3 km of Vauxhall; the French-language board can name the nearest.
How many schools are there in Vauxhall?
Every one of them, 3, is inside the town.
How do I get a place at a school in Vauxhall?
Choose a system, then register with its board; the address decides the 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).