Photo: Myke2020 · Public domain1 above the middle in Alberta, 1 below: Vegreville’s 4 tested schools
The highest results belong to A. L. Horton Elementary School. Its elementary schools are small, 154 students on average, against 274 in Alberta. Counting a 3 km margin, Vegreville has 4 elementary schools and 3 secondary schools, for 1,218 students.
How Vegreville’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 | 4 | 76% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 4 | 13% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the acceptable standard: 76% here, against 67% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (4)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| A. L. Horton Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 73% · Excellence 22% | Second fifth |
| St. Martin's Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 78% · Excellence 15% | Middle fifth |
| St. Mary's Catholic High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 86% · Excellence 10% | Middle fifth |
| Vegreville Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 60% · Excellence 12% | 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.
The 7 schools in and around Vegreville
Where the 7 schools in and around Vegreville are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
3 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 Vegreville
The language each school teaches in, against every school 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 Vegreville’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Who runs them, in numbers: English public 4, English Catholic 2 and independent or other 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
Which of the 2 boards runs which school
The boards and their schools here.
The Elk Island School Division runs the most, 4 of them, among 2 boards.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Elk Island School DivisionVegreville, A. L. Horton, Vegreville Next Step III Outreach, Pleasant Ridge Colony | English public | 4 | 772 |
| The Elk Island Catholic Separate School DivisionSt. Martin's, St. Mary's Catholic | English Catholic | 2 | 432 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Vegreville
Catholic schools
Here the Catholic schools form a funded separate system; non-Catholic families may apply where a board allows it.
Independent schools
Admission to an independent school is by its own rules; fees apply, lowered by partial provincial funding.
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.
High schools within reach of Vegreville
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Counting out to 15 km, there are 2: 1 English Catholic and 1 English public. St. Mary's Catholic High School is closest, at 0.8 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Mary's Catholic High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Elk Island Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Middle fifth | 188 | 0.8 km |
| Vegreville Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | The Elk Island School Division | English public | Fourth fifth | 377 | 1.5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glastonbury | 9,745 | 29 | 14,742 | 0 | 1.1 km |
| … | |||||
| Willow Creek No. 26 | 6,225 | 24 | 3,280 | 0 | 8.9 km |
| St. Paul | 6,218 | 7 | 1,764 | 1 | 0.4 km |
| Glenora | 6,197 | 68 | 29,614 | 3 | 0.4 km |
| Barrhead County No. 11 | 6,186 | 6 | 1,706 | 0 | 8.5 km |
| Vegreville | 6,153 | 7 | 1,218 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Capitol Hill | 6,135 | 68 | 27,971 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Castleridge | 6,127 | 40 | 24,815 | 1 | 0.3 km |
| Forest Heights | 6,120 | 58 | 23,662 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| MacEwan | 6,102 | 16 | 10,786 | 0 | 1.4 km |
| … | |||||
| Country Hills | 3,702 | 30 | 19,605 | 0 | 0.9 km |
More schools are within reach in 229 of the 264 other towns. Of the 265, 117 offer a French-language school.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Vegreville
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegreville | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0.8 km |
| Minburn County No. 27 18 km | 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 km |
Each of its 1 neighbours has fewer schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside Vegreville or within 3 km of it are here.
- The kinds of school. An all-grade school teaches from kindergarten through high school; elementary and secondary schools split those years.
- The year. 2025/26, the latest open list.
- 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. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Fifths are worked out among every Alberta school with a PAT result, then averaged per school.
Questions about schools in Vegreville
How do I get a place at a school in Vegreville?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
Which boards run the schools in Vegreville?
By number of schools: The Elk Island School Division (4) and The Elk Island Catholic Separate School Division (2).
How many schools are there in Vegreville?
Every one of them, 7, is inside the town.
Is there a French-language school in Vegreville?
No, none within 3 km of Vegreville; ask the French-language board for the nearest.
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).