Photo: Enzenberger · CC BY-SA 3.0Wetaskiwin’s schools mostly sit under the middle in Alberta, 5 of the 7 with results
Best placed: Norwood School. 3 boards run its schools. In or within 3 km of Wetaskiwin: 6 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 schools for every grade, with 2,606 students.
How Wetaskiwin’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 | 7 | 54% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 7 | 11% | 13% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is the acceptable standard: 54% here, against 67% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (7)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Norwood SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 71% · Excellence 20% | Second fifth |
| Sacred Heart SchoolAll grades · Grades K–10 | Acceptable 64% · Excellence 12% | Middle fifth |
| Clear Vista SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 60% · Excellence 11% | Fourth fifth |
| Queen Elizabeth SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 49% · Excellence 13% | Fourth fifth |
| Centennial SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 54% · Excellence 1% | Bottom fifth |
| Wetaskiwin Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 42% · Excellence 6% | Bottom fifth |
| Parkdale SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 | Acceptable 10% · Excellence 0% | 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.
3 boards, school by school
The boards and their schools here.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wetaskiwin School DivisionWetaskiwin, Clear Vista, Queen Elizabeth, Norwood, Parkdale, Wetaskiwin Outreach, Centennial, Lynn Lauren | English public | 8 | 2,056 |
| The St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Separate School DivisionSacred Heart | English Catholic | 1 | 539 |
| NorQuest CollegeNorQuest College (Wetaskiwin) | Other | 1 | 11 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 10 schools in and around Wetaskiwin are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
Points from the provincial lists; Alberta’s missing ones from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
Schooling in English and French around Wetaskiwin
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Alberta.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Alberta.
No school here 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 Wetaskiwin’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
The split by system: English public 8, English Catholic 1 and independent or other 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Wetaskiwin
Catholic schools
Catholic separate schools are publicly funded here; each separate board decides whom it admits, Catholic families first.
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives sets the school: each board draws a catchment around every one of its schools, and a child living inside it has a place there. Other schools take children from outside when they have room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 10 schools in and around Wetaskiwin
High schools within reach of Wetaskiwin
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Within 15 km, families can reach 5 high schools: 2 English public, 2 other and 1 English Catholic. First by distance comes Wetaskiwin Composite High School, at 0.5 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Students | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wetaskiwin Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | The Wetaskiwin School Division | English public | Bottom fifth | 848 | 0.5 km |
| Wetaskiwin OutreachAll grades · Grades 6–12 | The Wetaskiwin School Division | English public | – | 132 | 0.6 km |
| Sacred Heart SchoolAll grades · Grades K–10 | The St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Separate School Division | English Catholic | Middle fifth | 539 | 0.8 km |
| NorQuest College (Wetaskiwin)Secondary · Grades 10–11 | NorQuest College | Other | – | 11 | 1.1 km |
| Gwynne Valley Rural AcademyAll grades · Grades K–10 | Gwynne Valley Rural Education Association | Other | Middle fifth | 128 | 12 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Alberta
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | Students | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evanston | 21,483 | 20 | 15,319 | 0 | 1 km |
| … | |||||
| La Crète | 14,488 | 12 | 3,508 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Martindale | 14,467 | 34 | 20,807 | 1 | 0.6 km |
| Skyview Ranch | 14,061 | 5 | 3,802 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Copperfield | 13,952 | 22 | 15,476 | 0 | 1 km |
| Wetaskiwin | 13,703 | 10 | 2,606 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Walker | 13,388 | 21 | 11,855 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Douglasdale/Glen | 13,333 | 65 | 27,676 | 2 | 0.9 km |
| Signal Hill | 13,293 | 44 | 20,736 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Bonnyville No. 87 | 13,265 | 19 | 6,327 | 2 | 7 km |
| … | |||||
| Secord | 8,205 | 8 | 5,605 | 0 | 0.7 km |
In 103 of the 123 others the count is higher. 50 towns of the 124 have 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 Wetaskiwin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wetaskiwin | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 km |
| Ermineskin 138 14 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 km |
| Millet 15 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 km |
| Louis Bull 138B 17 km | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 km |
Each of its 3 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 Wetaskiwin or within 3 km of it are here.
- The kinds of school. Middle and junior high schools count as secondary when they start at Grade 7 or later, elementary otherwise.
- The year. The provincial list for 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. Public and Catholic boards are both publicly funded here, in English and in French; an independent school answers to no board.
- What isn’t here. No province rates its schools by inspection, and enrolment covers one year (Ontario and Alberta only), so there is no trend.
- Bands, not ranks. Fifths are worked out among every Alberta school with a PAT result, then averaged per school.
Questions about schools in Wetaskiwin
How do I get a place at a school in Wetaskiwin?
Ask the board which school serves your street, then register through it.
Which boards run the schools in Wetaskiwin?
By number of schools: The Wetaskiwin School Division (8), The St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Separate School Division (1) and NorQuest College (1).
How many schools are there in Wetaskiwin?
All 10 sit within the town’s own boundary.
Is there a French-language school in Wetaskiwin?
None within 3 km of Wetaskiwin. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
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).