Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0In and around Enfield, 13 schools: 11 elementary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 school for every grade
Inside the town there are 11; another 2 sit within 3 km. No French-language school is among them; in Nova Scotia, 6% of schools are.
Schooling in English and French around Enfield
English, French and other languages of instruction, beside the mix in Nova Scotia.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Nova Scotia.
Schooling in French isn’t on offer here.
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.
Where the 13 schools in and around Enfield are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
Points from the provincial lists.
Who runs Enfield’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English and French public boards, independent and other schools.
They belong to one system, every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
2 boards, school by school
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education has 11 of the area’s schools, the most of the 2 boards.
| Board | System | Schools |
|---|---|---|
| Chignecto Central Regional Centre for EducationCobequid District, Elmsdale District, Enfield District, Hants East Rural, Hants North Rural, Kennetcook District, Maple Ridge, Rawdon District … | English public | 11 |
| Halifax Regional Centre for EducationDutch Settlement, Oldfield Consolidated | English public | 2 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Enfield
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 13 schools in and around Enfield
High schools within reach of Enfield
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Hants East Rural High School, 14 km away, is the only secondary school within 15 km.
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hants East Rural High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–RG | Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education | English public | 14 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Nova Scotia
Places of about the same size and their schools in or within 3 km, largest first.
| Town | Population | Schools | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton Park West | 34,404 | 24 | 2 | 0.8 km |
| Bedford | 28,848 | 19 | 2 | 1.4 km |
| Austinville | 28,021 | 35 | 3 | 0.8 km |
| Enfield | 26,960 | 13 | 0 | 14 km |
| Lunenburg | 26,862 | 16 | 1 | 2.8 km |
| Kingston | 24,574 | 11 | 1 | 3.7 km |
| Westmount | 23,207 | 29 | 1 | 1.1 km |
| South End | 22,012 | 27 | 1 | 2 km |
| … | ||||
| Fairview | 16,296 | 26 | 0 | 1.4 km |
In 13 of the 15 others the count is higher. A school in French is nearby in 13 towns of 16.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Enfield
Schools in or within 3 km of each neighbouring town; distances in a straight line.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enfield | 13 | 0 | 0 | 14 km |
| Indian Brook 14 12 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 km |
| Dutch Settlement 16 km | 13 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 km |
Of 2 neighbours, none has more schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. An all-grade school teaches from kindergarten through high school; elementary and secondary schools split those years.
- Which schools count. Inside Enfield’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
- Boards and systems. Boards here split by language only: English districts and a French-language board.
- The year. The province’s 2025-26 list.
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
Questions about schools in Enfield
How do I get a place at a school in Enfield?
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.
Which boards run the schools in Enfield?
Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education (11) and Halifax Regional Centre for Education (2), with each one’s schools in brackets.
Is there a French-language school in Enfield?
Not within 3 km of Enfield. The French-language board still serves families here.
Sources: Nova Scotia Department of Education, school contact list 2025-26 (Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia) · Source note: the province reports its assessments by regional centre, and that series stops in 2019–20, so there’s no schools grade in Nova Scotia. · 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).