Photo: Ken Eckert · CC BY-SA 4.0Most schools around Castlegar score below the middle in British Columbia: 3 of 4
Taken together, Castlegar and its 3 km edge hold 3 elementary schools and 1 secondary school.
How Castlegar’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 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 | British Columbia |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 literacy (FSA score) | 3 | 448 | 468 |
| Grade 4 numeracy (FSA score) | 3 | 419 | 472 |
| Grade 7 literacy (FSA score) | 3 | 452 | 467 |
| Grade 7 numeracy (FSA score) | 3 | 454 | 454 |
| First-time Grade 12 graduation | 1 | 83% | 91% |
The widest gap is on Grade 4 numeracy, where the area’s schools reach 419 against 472 in British Columbia. 0 measures above the provincial middle, 4 below, out of 5.
Every school’s results (4)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Kinnaird ElementaryElementary | G4 literacy 448 · G4 numeracy 419 · G7 literacy 486 · G7 numeracy 483 | Middle fifth |
| Robson Community SchoolElementary | G4 literacy 450 · G4 numeracy 441 · G7 literacy 452 · G7 numeracy 420 | Fourth fifth |
| Stanley Humphries SecondarySecondary | Graduation 83% | Fourth fifth |
| Twin Rivers ElementaryElementary | G4 literacy 417 · G4 numeracy 388 · G7 literacy 449 · G7 numeracy 454 | 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 4 schools in and around Castlegar 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 Castlegar
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.
None of them 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 Castlegar’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English and French public boards, independent and other schools.
A single system: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Castlegar
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 4 schools in and around Castlegar
High schools within reach of Castlegar
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Stanley Humphries Secondary, 3.3 km away, is the only secondary school within 15 km.
| School | Board | System | Band | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley Humphries SecondarySecondary | SD 20 Kootenay-Columbia | English public | Fourth fifth | 3.3 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in British Columbia
Places of about the same size and their schools in or within 3 km, largest first.
| Town | Population | Schools | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whistler | 15,090 | 5 | 1 | 4.5 km |
| … | ||||
| Shawnigan | 9,903 | 10 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| South Cambie | 9,846 | 78 | 3 | 1.1 km |
| Electoral Area C (Puntledge - Black Creek), Comox Valley | 9,803 | 15 | 0 | 9.6 km |
| Qualicum Beach | 9,640 | 6 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Castlegar | 9,465 | 4 | 0 | 3.3 km |
| Revelstoke | 9,464 | 6 | 2 | 0.4 km |
| Burnaby Mountain | 9,248 | 46 | 0 | 2.6 km |
| Kimberley | 9,037 | 8 | 1 | 1.4 km |
| Crescent Heights | 9,033 | 16 | 0 | 5.4 km |
| … | ||||
| Osoyoos | 5,724 | 2 | 0 | 0.9 km |
Set against 79 others, 75 have more schools in reach. 24 of 80 have a school teaching in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Castlegar
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlegar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 km |
| Electoral Area J, Central Kootenay 6.1 km | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 km |
| Electoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay Boundary 9.2 km | 7 | 1 | 1 | 12 km |
| Electoral Area I, Central Kootenay 13 km | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 km |
The neighbour with most schools is Electoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay Boundary (7).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. The kind of school is what its province lists: elementary, secondary or both.
- Which schools count. Counted: Castlegar’s own schools and any within 3 km of its edge.
- Boards and systems. English and French boards share the province, each with its own schools; there are no separate Catholic boards here.
- The year. Listed for 2025/26.
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Bands, not ranks. Fifths are worked out among every BC school with a result on that measure, then averaged per school.
Questions about schools in Castlegar
How do I get a place at a school in Castlegar?
Start with the board for the system you want; your address sets the school.
Is there a French-language school in Castlegar?
There is none in or near Castlegar (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
How many schools are there in Castlegar?
3 in the town, 1 just beyond it, within 3 km.
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).