Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0No high school in or near Algonquin Highlands: the closest is 19 km off
In or within 3 km of the town: 2 elementary schools, and no high school.
High schools within reach of Algonquin Highlands
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Within 15 km of the town there is no secondary school at all.
Where the 2 schools in and around Algonquin Highlands 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 Algonquin Highlands
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in Ontario marked.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Ontario.
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 Algonquin Highlands’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English public, English Catholic, French-language, and independent or other.
Who runs them, in numbers: English public 1 and English Catholic 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
The 2 boards that run schools here
Each board’s schools in the area, largest first.
Among 2 boards, Algonquin and Lakeshore CDSB leads with 1.
| Board | System | Schools |
|---|---|---|
| Algonquin and Lakeshore CDSBSt Martin of Tours | English Catholic | 1 |
| Renfrew County DSBWhitney | English public | 1 |
Boards as Ontario’s list names them (its short forms: DSB, CDSB, CS).
How children get a place in Algonquin Highlands
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.
Catholic schools
Ontario funds the Catholic system in full; its high schools are open to all, its elementary schools mostly to Catholic families.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 2 schools in and around Algonquin Highlands
Towns its size in Ontario
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Park - Mooneys Bay | 4,692 | 39 | 8 | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||
| Gilkson | 2,963 | 30 | 1 | 0.9 km |
| Wawa | 2,943 | 6 | 3 | 0.4 km |
| Carpenter | 2,941 | 19 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Butler | 2,922 | 28 | 2 | 0.5 km |
| Algonquin Highlands | 2,915 | 2 | 0 | 19 km |
| Port Credit NHD (West) | 2,902 | 19 | 0 | 2 km |
| Black River-Matheson | 2,899 | 2 | 1 | 35 km |
| Shaver | 2,882 | 8 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part | 2,877 | 2 | 0 | 35 km |
| … | ||||
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards | 2,505 | 2 | 0 | 20 km |
138 out of 154 comparable towns have more schools. 90 of 155 have a school teaching in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Algonquin Highlands
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Highlands | 2 | 0 | 1 | 19 km |
| Minden Hills 18 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 km |
Each of its 1 neighbours has fewer schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Bands, not ranks. A band is the fifth of Ontario’s schools a result falls in, averaged over the school’s measures; small groups go unreported, so places would overstate it.
- What isn’t here. There are no inspection ratings to show, and a single year of enrolment gives no trend.
- Boards and systems. Every public school has a board: English or French, and in this province public or Catholic too. Independent schools have none.
- The year. The 2024-25 list.
- The kinds of school. Grades shown are the published range, from junior kindergarten (JK) upward.
- Which schools count. Counted: Algonquin Highlands’s own schools and any within 3 km of its edge.
Questions about schools in Algonquin Highlands
Is there a French-language school in Algonquin Highlands?
None within 3 km of Algonquin Highlands. The French-language board serves it from schools further off.
How many schools are there in Algonquin Highlands?
0 in the town, 2 just beyond it, within 3 km.
Which boards run the schools in Algonquin Highlands?
Algonquin and Lakeshore CDSB (1) and Renfrew County DSB (1), with each one’s schools in brackets.
How do I get a place at a school in Algonquin Highlands?
Each board registers its own students; its website gives the school for an address.
Sources: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information Finder 2024–25 and school contact list (Open Government Licence – Ontario) · 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).