Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.09 schools in and around Mount Pearl: 5 elementary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade
Inside the town there are 8; another 1 sit within 3 km. No schools grade in Newfoundland and Labrador: the province publishes no results school by school.
Where the 9 schools in and around Mount Pearl are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
5 more have no point in the source and are listed below the map.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Mount Pearl
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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 Mount Pearl’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.
Which of the 2 boards runs which school
The boards and their schools here.
NLESD - Eastern Region counts 8, more than any of the other boards of the 2.
| Board | System | Schools |
|---|---|---|
| NLESD - Eastern RegionMary Queen of the World, Morris Academy, Mount Pearl Senior High, Newtown, O'Donel, Octagon Pond, St. Peter's Junior High, St. Peter's Primary | English public | 8 |
| District 803 - PrivateFirst Baptist Academy | English public | 1 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Mount Pearl
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 9 schools in and around Mount Pearl
High schools within reach of Mount Pearl
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Within 15 km, families can reach 10 high schools: 9 English public and 1 French public. Closest of all: First Baptist Academy (1.7 km).
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Baptist AcademyAll grades | District 803 - Private | English public | 1.7 km |
| St. Kevin's HighSecondary | NLESD - Eastern Region | English public | 6.8 km |
| District SchoolSecondary | NLESD - Eastern Region | English public | 7.3 km |
| Prince of Wales CollegiateSecondary | NLESD - Eastern Region | English public | 7.5 km |
| École Rocher-du-NordSecondary | Conseil scolaire francophone | French public | 7.8 km |
| Brother Rice Junior HighSecondary | NLESD - Eastern Region | English public | 9 km |
| Holy Heart of Mary Regional HighSecondary | NLESD - Eastern Region | English public | 9.1 km |
| Gonzaga Regional HighSecondary | NLESD - Eastern Region | English public | 9.3 km |
| Macdonald Drive Junior HighSecondary | NLESD - Eastern Region | English public | 11 km |
| St. Paul's Junior HighSecondary | NLESD - Eastern Region | English public | 12 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Canadian towns its size
Places of about the same size and their schools in or within 3 km, largest first.
| Town | Population | Schools | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverley Glen | 38,720 | 54 | 2 | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||
| Agincourt South-Malvern West | 24,438 | 111 | 2 | 1.2 km |
| Milliken | 24,431 | 99 | 2 | 1.5 km |
| Fort St. John | 24,383 | 15 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| West London | 24,322 | 47 | 2 | 2.7 km |
| Mount Pearl | 24,266 | 9 | 0 | 1.7 km |
| Springwater | 24,144 | 38 | 3 | 12 km |
| Owen Sound | 24,075 | 10 | 2 | 0.6 km |
| Newtonbrook West | 23,978 | 63 | 2 | 0.7 km |
| Huntsville | 23,948 | 7 | 0 | 1.3 km |
| … | ||||
| Long Sault | 14,602 | 6 | 1 | 13 km |
508 out of 546 comparable towns have more schools. Teaching in French: 429 of the 547 have it.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Mount Pearl
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pearl | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1.7 km |
| Paradise 5 km | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5.4 km |
| St. John's 6.6 km | 38 | 2 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove 9.4 km | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 km |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's 10 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8.9 km |
| Conception Bay South 13 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 km |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove 16 km | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 km |
Among the neighbours, St. John's has 38, the most.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside Mount Pearl or within 3 km of it are here.
- The kinds of school. An all-grade school teaches from kindergarten through high school; elementary and secondary schools split those years.
- The year. The schools are those in ODEF, 2019–22; check with the board for any opened since.
- Boards and systems. The French-language board covers the whole province, the English districts one area each.
- 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.
Questions about schools in Mount Pearl
How do I get a place at a school in Mount Pearl?
Register with the board that runs the school: the address decides the designated school in each system, and the board can say which one it is.
Is there a French-language school in Mount Pearl?
There is none in or near Mount Pearl (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
Which boards run the schools in Mount Pearl?
NLESD - Eastern Region (8) and District 803 - Private (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
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).