Photo: Nuggets · CC BY 3.0Most schools around Yellowhead County score below the middle in Alberta: 11 of 14
The strongest results are at Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic School and Grand Trunk High School. No single board runs them all: there are 4. Taken together, Yellowhead County and its 3 km edge hold 9 elementary schools, 6 secondary schools and 4 schools for every grade for 4,751 students.
What stands out about Yellowhead County’s schools
The strongest results
Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic School (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 Yellowhead County’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 | 14 | 54% | 67% |
| PAT: standard of excellence | 14 | 8% | 13% |
On the standard of excellence the area trails, 8% against 13% in Alberta.
Every school’s results (14)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Father Gerard Redmond Community Catholic SchoolAll grades · Grades 5–12 | Acceptable 83% · Excellence 23% | Top fifth |
| Grand Trunk High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 87% · Excellence 19% | Second fifth |
| Holy Redeemer Catholic Junior/Senior High SchoolSecondary · Grades 7–12 | Acceptable 71% · Excellence 13% | Middle fifth |
| Crescent Valley SchoolElementary · Grades K–7 | Acceptable 53% · Excellence 11% | Fourth fifth |
| Ecole Pine Grove SchoolElementary · Grades 6–8 | Acceptable 61% · Excellence 13% | Fourth fifth |
| Vanier Community Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 70% · Excellence 8% | Fourth fifth |
| Entwistle SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 54% · Excellence 8% | Fourth fifth |
| Evansview SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 61% · Excellence 8% | Fourth fifth |
| Harry Collinge High SchoolSecondary · Grades 8–12 | Acceptable 53% · Excellence 9% | Fourth fifth |
| Parkland Composite High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–12 | Acceptable 53% · Excellence 4% | Bottom fifth |
| Ecole Mountain View SchoolElementary · Grades K–7 | Acceptable 48% · Excellence 4% | Bottom fifth |
| Fulham SchoolElementary · Grades K–6 | Acceptable 36% · Excellence 0% | Bottom fifth |
| Niton Central SchoolAll grades · Grades K–9 | Acceptable 33% · Excellence 0% | Bottom fifth |
| Yellowhead Koinonia Christian SchoolAll grades · Grades K–12 | Acceptable 0% · 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.
Which of the 4 boards runs which school
Every board or service centre with a school in the area, and its schools.
| Board | System | Schools | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grande Yellowhead School DivisionParkland, Ecole Mountain View, Harry Collinge, Mary Bergeron, Ecole Pine Grove, Westhaven, Crescent Valley, Grand Trunk … | English public | 13 | 3,337 |
| The Evergreen Catholic Separate School DivisionFather Gerard Redmond Community, St. Gregory | English Catholic | 2 | 510 |
| The Living Waters Catholic Separate School DivisionHoly Redeemer Catholic Junior/Senior, Vanier Community | English Catholic | 2 | 575 |
| The Parkland School DivisionEntwistle | English public | 1 | 89 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
Where the 19 schools in and around Yellowhead County 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 Yellowhead County
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix 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 Yellowhead County’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 14, English Catholic 4 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 Yellowhead County
Catholic schools
A separate (Catholic) board runs its own schools with public money and its own admission rules.
Independent schools
An independent school decides whom it takes and what it charges; provincial grants cover part of the cost.
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 19 schools in and around Yellowhead County
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coventry Hills | 17,391 | 14 | 11,841 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| … | |||||
| Whitehorn | 11,273 | 52 | 25,957 | 1 | 0.2 km |
| Lake Bonavista | 11,154 | 63 | 28,636 | 2 | 1 km |
| Lacombe County | 11,072 | 21 | 5,960 | 0 | 2.8 km |
| Lethbridge County | 10,988 | 61 | 20,706 | 1 | 3.5 km |
| Yellowhead County | 10,966 | 19 | 4,751 | 0 | 17 km |
| Morinville | 10,763 | 7 | 4,814 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Whitecourt | 10,708 | 9 | 2,525 | 0 | 1.2 km |
| Ponoka County | 10,670 | 12 | 2,866 | 0 | 2.7 km |
| Hidden Valley | 10,614 | 27 | 19,070 | 0 | 0.1 km |
| … | |||||
| Griesbach | 6,640 | 61 | 28,549 | 1 | 0.7 km |
Among 166 towns its size, 118 have more schools nearby. A French-language school is within reach in 68 of the 167.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Counted: Yellowhead County’s own schools and any within 3 km of its edge.
- The kinds of school. Elementary schools run from kindergarten to Grade 6 or 8, secondary ones to Grade 12; some cover every grade, and alternative, adult and online schools are listed apart.
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025/26.
- Boards and systems. English and French, public and Catholic: the board decides the system, and the address decides the school.
- What isn’t here. Provinces don’t grade schools by inspection; class sizes and enrolment over time aren’t in the open lists.
- Bands, not ranks. Top fifth means a result among the best fifth of Alberta’s schools; the card shows a school’s average fifth.
Questions about schools in Yellowhead County
How do I get a place at a school in Yellowhead County?
The board’s school locator gives the designated school; registration is with the board or the school.
Which boards run the schools in Yellowhead County?
The Grande Yellowhead School Division (13), The Evergreen Catholic Separate School Division (2), The Living Waters Catholic Separate School Division (2) and The Parkland School Division (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
How many schools are there in Yellowhead County?
The town holds 4 of them; 15 more are within 3 km of its outline.
Is there a French-language school in Yellowhead County?
Not near Yellowhead County: 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).