Photo: misterjerk2 · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Upper Tantallon, 12 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 school for every grade: 15 schools in all
2 are inside the town itself and 13 lie within 3 km of its edge. One of the 15 teaches in French, against 6% of schools in Nova Scotia. No schools grade in Nova Scotia: the province reports its assessments by regional centre, and that series stops in 2019–20.
Where the 15 schools in and around Upper Tantallon are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Upper Tantallon
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.
Conseil scolaire acadien provincial runs the French-language ones: École du Grand-Portage.
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 Upper Tantallon’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English and French public boards, independent and other schools.
Split by system, that is English public 14 and French-language 1.
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.
Halifax Regional Centre for Education has 14 of the area’s schools, the most of the 2 boards.
| Board | System | Schools |
|---|---|---|
| Halifax Regional Centre for EducationBay View High, Hammonds Plains Consolidated, Harry R Hamilton, Madeline Symonds, Millwood, Millwood High, Sackville Heights, Sackville Heights Junior High … | English public | 14 |
| Conseil scolaire acadien provincialdu Grand-Portage | French public | 1 |
Boards and districts as the provincial lists name them.
How children get a place in Upper Tantallon
The neighbourhood school
Each school serves a defined area. A place elsewhere is possible when that school has room.
French-language schools
Section 23 rights-holders, francophone parents or those schooled in French in Canada, have a place; others apply to the board’s committee.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 15 schools in and around Upper Tantallon
High schools within reach of Upper Tantallon
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
4 secondary schools are within 15 km: 4 English public. Nearest: Bay View High, 2.1 km off.
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay View HighSecondary · Grades 10–RG | Halifax Regional Centre for Education | English public | 2.1 km |
| Five Bridges Junior HighAll grades · Grades 6–9 | Halifax Regional Centre for Education | English public | 6.8 km |
| Madeline Symonds Middle SchoolAll grades · Grades 6–9 | Halifax Regional Centre for Education | English public | 7.2 km |
| Charles P Allen HighSecondary · Grades 10–RG | Halifax 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argyle | 8,216 | 6 | 4 | 17 km |
| … | ||||
| Cumberland County, Subdivision C | 6,040 | 7 | 0 | 8.1 km |
| Annapolis County, Subdivision C | 5,694 | 6 | 1 | 5.9 km |
| Wolfville | 5,587 | 4 | 0 | 3.8 km |
| Inverness County, Subdivision A | 5,389 | 3 | 1 | 15 km |
| Upper Tantallon | 5,248 | 15 | 1 | 2.2 km |
| Lake Echo | 5,223 | 5 | 1 | 8.6 km |
| Antigonish | 5,175 | 3 | 0 | 1 km |
| Inverness | 5,138 | 5 | 0 | 8 km |
| Annapolis County, Subdivision B | 5,086 | 3 | 0 | 26 km |
| … | ||||
| Annapolis County, Subdivision D | 3,273 | 4 | 1 | 26 km |
1 out of 43 comparable towns have more schools. 13 towns of the 44 have a French-language school.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Upper Tantallon
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | French | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Tantallon | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2.2 km |
| Head of St Margarets Bay 3.9 km | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 km |
| Hubley 4.8 km | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2.9 km |
| Hammonds Plains 8.1 km | 31 | 2 | 0 | 2.1 km |
| Timberlea 13 km | 21 | 2 | 0 | 4.6 km |
| Middle Sackville 15 km | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Bedford 16 km | 19 | 2 | 0 | 1.4 km |
31 schools make Hammonds Plains the best supplied neighbour.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Boards and systems. A school’s board decides its language; the province funds no separate Catholic system.
- The year. The open list of 2025-26.
- The kinds of school. The kind of school is what its province lists: elementary, secondary or both.
- Which schools count. The page takes in schools within Upper Tantallon and up to 3 km past its boundary, so a school just over the line is still here.
Questions about schools in Upper Tantallon
Is there a French-language school in Upper Tantallon?
Yes: École du Grand-Portage, the French-language schools here.
Which boards run the schools in Upper Tantallon?
By number of schools: Halifax Regional Centre for Education (14) and Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (1).
How do I get a place at a school in Upper Tantallon?
Enrolment goes through the board; schools outside your area take students when they have room.
Sources: Nova Scotia Department of Education, school contact list 2025-26 (Open Government Licence – 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).