Photo: Hero122. Original uploader was Hero122 at en.wikipedia · CC BY 3.0Warner County No. 5’s schools mostly beat the middle in Alberta, 3 of the 3 with results
The strongest include Stirling School, Raymond Elementary School and Raymond Junior High School. The Catholic boards run 0 of its 13 schools, below the 18% in Alberta. Counting a 3 km margin, Warner County No. 5 has 4 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and 6 schools for every grade, for 1,655 students.
What stands out about Warner County No. 5’s schools
Small elementary schools
At 162 students on average, against 274 in Alberta, the elementary schools are small. Every school ↓
The strongest results
Top of the area: Stirling School (all grades), its results in the top fifth in Alberta. Results ↓
The comparisons are with the province’s schools, never across provinces.
How Warner County No. 5’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 | 3 | 79% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 3 | 26% | 13% |
The widest gap is on the standard of excellence, where the area’s schools reach 26% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Stirling SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 84% · Excellence 32% | Top fifth |
| Raymond Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 77% · Excellence 26% | Second fifth |
| Raymond Junior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–9 | Acceptable 79% · Excellence 18% | 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.
Who runs Warner County No. 5’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
They belong to one system, every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
Where the 13 schools in and around Warner County No. 5 are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Warner County No. 5
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.
2 boards, school by school
The boards and their schools here.
The Westwind School Division counts 12, more than any of the other boards of the 2.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Westwind School DivisionRaymond, Stirling, Raymond, Raymond Junior, New Rockport Colony, Raymond Alternate, Wolf Creek Colony, Milford Colony … | English public | 12 | 1,646 |
| The Palliser School DivisionRock Lake Colony | English public | 1 | 9 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Warner County No. 5
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 13 schools in and around Warner County No. 5
High schools within reach of Warner County No. 5
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
3 secondary schools are within 15 km: 3 English public. The shortest trip is to Wolf Creek Colony School, 7.7 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf Creek Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Westwind School Division | English public | – | 22 | 7.7 km |
| New Rockport Colony SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | The Westwind School Division | English public | – | 25 | 7.9 km |
| Stirling SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | The Westwind School Division | English public | Top fifth | 319 | 12 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Towns of a similar population, with their schools in or within 3 km; described, not ranked.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cavanagh | 7,300 | 34 | 22,567 | 0 | 1.6 km |
| … | |||||
| Carlisle | 4,609 | 50 | 22,796 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Raymond | 4,594 | 4 | 1,195 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Wainwright No. 61 | 4,576 | 9 | 2,061 | 1 | 3.4 km |
| Blue Quill | 4,567 | 26 | 16,425 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Warner County No. 5 | 4,533 | 13 | 1,655 | 0 | 7.8 km |
| Vulcan County | 4,465 | 16 | 1,022 | 0 | 5.7 km |
| Oxford | 4,460 | 26 | 11,216 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Montgomery | 4,456 | 56 | 24,456 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Deer Ridge | 4,454 | 31 | 13,696 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| … | |||||
| Lee Ridge | 2,722 | 43 | 17,787 | 0 | 0.3 km |
Of the 280 others, 220 count more schools. Schooling in French is on hand in 122 of the 281.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Warner County No. 5
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
Each of its 2 neighbours has fewer schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. A school counts when it sits inside Warner County No. 5 or less than 3 km beyond its edge.
- The kinds of school. Where a province publishes grades, the card gives them; elementary and secondary follow those grades.
- Bands, not ranks. Each result is placed in a fifth of Alberta’s schools on the same measure; a school’s band averages its fifths. Alberta suppresses small groups, so no school is ranked to the place.
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- The year. The provincial list for 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. A school’s system is its board’s: the language it teaches in, and whether the board is public or Catholic.
Questions about schools in Warner County No. 5
How many schools are there in Warner County No. 5?
6 in the town, 7 just beyond it, within 3 km.
Is there a French-language school in Warner County No. 5?
No, none within 3 km of Warner County No. 5; ask the French-language board for the nearest.
How do I get a place at a school in Warner County No. 5?
Registration is with the board, which assigns the school for the home address.
Which boards run the schools in Warner County No. 5?
The Westwind School Division (12) and The Palliser School Division (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
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).