Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY-SA 4.011 schools in and around Windsor: 9 elementary schools and 2 secondary schools
Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education runs every one of them. None of them teaches in French, though 6% of schools in Nova Scotia do. In Nova Scotia, there’s no schools grade: the province reports its assessments by regional centre, and that series stops in 2019–20.
Schooling in English and French around Windsor
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Nova Scotia.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Nova Scotia.
All teach in the province’s majority language; none 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.
Where the 11 schools in and around Windsor are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
Points from the provincial lists.
Who runs Windsor’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.
How children get a place in Windsor
The neighbourhood school
No application round, no lottery: the address fixes the school, and the board handles the paperwork.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 11 schools in and around Windsor
High schools within reach of Windsor
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Counting out to 15 km, there are 2: 2 English public. Windsor Adult High School is closest, at 0.2 km.
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Adult High SchoolSecondary · Grades 10–RG | Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education | English public | 0.2 km |
| Avon View High SchoolSecondary · Grades 9–RG | Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education | English public | 1.2 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Nova Scotia
Towns of a similar population, with their schools in or within 3 km; described, not ranked.
| Town | Population | Schools | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford | 28,848 | 19 | 2 | 1.4 km |
| … | ||||
| South End | 22,012 | 27 | 1 | 2 km |
| Cole Harbour | 21,627 | 29 | 2 | 1.1 km |
| Colchester County, Subdivision B | 21,578 | 15 | 1 | 8.4 km |
| Woodlawn | 20,925 | 37 | 3 | 0.3 km |
| Windsor | 20,318 | 11 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| Lower Sackville | 20,171 | 21 | 1 | 0.6 km |
| North End | 19,733 | 31 | 1 | 1 km |
| Schmidtville | 18,105 | 24 | 1 | 0.8 km |
| Fairview | 16,296 | 26 | 0 | 1.4 km |
| … | ||||
| Kings County, Subdivision B | 12,661 | 11 | 0 | 7 km |
18 out of 21 comparable towns have more schools. In 17 of the 22, at least one school teaches in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Windsor
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 km |
| Kings County, Subdivision D 18 km | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 km |
None of its 1 neighbours has more schools in reach.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The year. The 2025-26 list.
- Boards and systems. Boards here split by language only: English districts and a French-language board.
- What isn’t here. Provinces don’t grade schools by inspection; class sizes and enrolment over time aren’t in the open lists.
- Which schools count. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside Windsor or within 3 km of it are here.
- 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 Windsor
Is there a French-language school in Windsor?
Not near Windsor: 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 Windsor?
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.
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).