Photo: Kayoty · CC BY-SA 3.0The nearest high school to Barriere is 37 km away
In or within 3 km of the town: 2 elementary schools, and no high school. On results, 0 of 2 tested schools are in the upper two fifths in British Columbia.
High schools within reach of Barriere
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
No secondary school is within 15 km of the town.
How Barriere’s schools do on BC’s assessments
The Foundation Skills Assessment in Grades 4 and 7 and first-time graduation: each school against every school in BC.
Its School Grade is B: 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 | British Columbia |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 literacy (FSA score) | 1 | 470 | 468 |
| Grade 4 numeracy (FSA score) | 1 | 491 | 472 |
| Grade 7 literacy (FSA score) | 1 | 424 | 467 |
| Grade 7 numeracy (FSA score) | 1 | 373 | 454 |
| First-time Grade 12 graduation | 1 | 93% | 91% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is Grade 7 numeracy: 373 here, against 454 in British Columbia. Across 5 measures: 1 above the middle, 2 below.
Every school’s results (2)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Barriere ElementaryElementary | G4 literacy 470 · G4 numeracy 491 | Middle fifth |
| Barriere Elementary-SecondaryElementary | G7 literacy 424 · G7 numeracy 373 · Graduation 93% | Fourth fifth |
BC Ministry of Education and Child Care: FSA 2021/22 to 2025/26 (the latest year with a value) and first-time Grade 12 graduation; masked where groups are small; resident students only. Open Government Licence – British Columbia.
Where the 2 schools in and around Barriere are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Barriere
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in British Columbia.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in British Columbia.
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 Barriere’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English and French public boards, independent and other schools.
No mix of systems here: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Barriere
The neighbourhood school
Attendance zones do the sorting here. Inside the zone a child is in; outside it, the answer turns on how full the school is.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Barriere
Schools in the towns around Barriere
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barriere | 2 | 0 | 0 | 37 km |
| Electoral Area O (Lower North Thompson), Thompson-Nicola 16 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22 km |
None of its 1 neighbours has more schools in reach.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Bands, not ranks. Bands compare within BC only, measure by measure: never a place in a league table.
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Boards and systems. Each public school has a board or district, English or French; independent schools stand outside them.
- The year. Schools as listed for 2025/26.
- The kinds of school. An all-grade school teaches from kindergarten through high school; elementary and secondary schools split those years.
- Which schools count. Schools inside Barriere and those within 3 km of its outline: a family nearby would weigh them all.
Questions about schools in Barriere
Is there a French-language school in Barriere?
Not in or within 3 km of Barriere; the French-language board can name the nearest.
How many schools are there in Barriere?
All 2 sit within the town’s own boundary.
How do I get a place at a school in Barriere?
Ask the board which school serves your street, then register through it.
Sources: BC Ministry of Education and Child Care, K-12 school list 2025/26 (Open Government Licence – British Columbia) · 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).