Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY-SA 3.0St. Mary's’s teenagers travel 43 km to the nearest high school
The town’s own schools, within 3 km, are 1 elementary school. The schools grade is left out in Nova Scotia, as the province reports its assessments by regional centre, and that series stops in 2019–20.
High schools within reach of St. Mary's
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
No secondary school is within 15 km of the town.
Where the school in or near St. Mary's is
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.
How children get a place in St. Mary's
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 school in and around St. Mary's
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025-26.
- Boards and systems. English and French boards share the province, each with its own schools; there are no separate Catholic boards here.
- What isn’t here. There are no inspection ratings to show, and a single year of enrolment gives no trend.
- Which schools count. Inside St. Mary's’s boundary, or no more than 3 km outside it: that is which schools are counted.
- The kinds of school. Elementary and secondary come from the grades each school offers; a school offering both counts as all-grade.
Questions about schools in St. Mary's
How do I get a place at a school in St. Mary's?
Ask the board which school serves your street, then register through it.
Is there a French-language school in St. Mary's?
There is none in or near St. Mary's (within 3 km); the French-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
How many schools are there in St. Mary's?
All 1 are inside the town itself.
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).