Photo: VirdenPioneers · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Virden, 3 elementary schools and 1 secondary school: 4 schools in all
Every school here answers to Fort la Bosse School Division. With no open results to compare (the province publishes no results school by school), there’s no schools grade in Manitoba.
Where the 4 schools in and around Virden are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
2 more have no point in the source and are listed below the map.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Virden
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in Manitoba marked.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Manitoba.
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 Virden’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English and French public boards, independent and other schools.
One system runs them: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Virden
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 4 schools in and around Virden
High schools within reach of Virden
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Only Virden Collegiate is within 15 km, 1.1 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virden CollegiateSecondary | Fort la Bosse School Division | English public | 1.1 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Manitoba
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normand Park | 5,299 | 39 | 3 | 2.4 km |
| … | ||||
| Buchanan | 3,473 | 29 | 1 | 0.6 km |
| Niakwa Place | 3,461 | 44 | 3 | 0.7 km |
| North St. Boniface | 3,358 | 93 | 5 | 0.7 km |
| Division No. 19, Unorganized | 3,324 | 3 | 0 | 100 km |
| Virden | 3,322 | 4 | 0 | 1.1 km |
| Point Road | 3,290 | 63 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Seven Oaks | 3,244 | 68 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| North Cypress-Langford | 3,234 | 3 | 1 | 24 km |
| Sturgeon Creek | 3,202 | 29 | 1 | 1.3 km |
| … | ||||
| Pembina | 2,502 | 0 | 0 | 33 km |
More schools than here: 74 of the 100 others. A French-language school is within reach in 48 of the 101.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Virden
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virden | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 km |
| Wallace-Woodworth 3.1 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.6 km |
No neighbour of the 1 counts more schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. The area is Virden plus a 3 km margin around it, measured from its census outline.
- The kinds of school. Schools are grouped by what they teach: elementary, secondary, every grade, and the alternative, adult and online programs.
- What isn’t here. Ontario’s private schools aren’t in the open list; no province publishes inspection grades.
- The year. Schools come from StatCan’s ODEF of 2019–22, so a recent opening or closure may not show.
- Boards and systems. The French-language board covers the whole province, the English districts one area each.
Questions about schools in Virden
Is there a French-language school in Virden?
Not near Virden: within 3 km there is none, and the French-language board points to the closest.
How do I get a place at a school in Virden?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Educational Facilities v2.1 (2019–22) · 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).