Photo: sfbnurse https://www.flickr.com/people/sfbnurse/ · CC BY 2.02 schools serve Fort Simpson, 1 elementary school and 1 secondary school
All of them belong to DDEC. We don’t grade schools in the Northwest Territories. The reason: the province publishes no results school by school.
Schooling in English and French around Fort Simpson
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in the Northwest Territories marked.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in the Northwest Territories.
Not one 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 Fort Simpson’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English and French public boards, independent and other schools.
They all share one system, every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Fort Simpson
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives settles it: the board’s map ties every address to one school, and a seat anywhere else waits on spare room.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Fort Simpson
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Counted: Fort Simpson’s own schools and any within 3 km of its edge.
- The kinds of school. Middle and junior high schools count as secondary when they start at Grade 7 or later, elementary otherwise.
- The year. StatCan’s ODEF (2019–22) is the open source here; it may miss new schools.
- Boards and systems. Each public school has a board or district, English or French; independent schools stand outside them.
- What isn’t here. Missing: inspection ratings (no province gives them), enrolment trends and Ontario’s private schools.
Questions about schools in Fort Simpson
How do I get a place at a school in Fort Simpson?
Registration is with the board, which assigns the school for the home address.
Is there a French-language school in Fort Simpson?
None within 3 km of Fort Simpson. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
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).