Photo: Providence Doucet providence · CC0Crabtree and its edges hold 5 schools: 4 elementary schools and 1 secondary school
Every school here answers to Centre de services scolaire des Samares. Because the ministry publishes its success rates by school service centre, not school by school, towns in Quebec aren’t graded on schools.
Where the 5 schools in and around Crabtree 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 Crabtree
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Quebec.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Quebec.
Not one teaches in English.
Quebec’s Charter of the French Language sends most children to French-language schools; English public schooling is for children who hold a certificate of eligibility.
Who runs Crabtree’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: the French service centres, the English boards, independent and other schools.
Who runs them, in numbers: French service centres 4 and independent 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Crabtree
The neighbourhood school
Where a family lives sets the school: each board draws a catchment around every one of its schools, and a child living inside it has a place there. Other schools take children from outside when they have room.
Independent schools
Independent schools here charge fees but receive some provincial funding if they meet its standards.
English schools in Quebec
English public schooling in Quebec needs a certificate of eligibility, usually earned through a parent’s English elementary schooling in Canada; other children attend French schools.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 5 schools in and around Crabtree
High schools within reach of Crabtree
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Within 15 km, families can reach 13 high schools: 10 French public, 2 independent and 1 English public. École secondaire de Joliette lies closest, 5.5 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| École secondaire de JolietteSecondary | Commission scolaire Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier | English public | 5.5 km |
| École Barthélemy-JolietteSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 5.6 km |
| École Barthélemy-JolietteAll grades | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 6.2 km |
| Collège Esther-BlondinSecondary | – | Independent | 6.8 km |
| Académie Antoine ManseauSecondary | – | Independent | 7.3 km |
| École de l'Espace-JeunesseAll grades | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 7.7 km |
| École secondaire Thérèse-MartinSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 8 km |
| École secondaire Thérèse-MartinSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 8 km |
| École Barthélemy-JolietteAll grades | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 8.5 km |
| École secondaire du Bois-BrûléSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 10 km |
All 13 secondary schools
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| École Barthélemy-JolietteAll grades | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 11 km |
| École secondaire de l'AmitiéSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Affluents | French public | 13 km |
| École secondaire de l'AchiganSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 15 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Quebec
Places of about the same size and their schools in or within 3 km, largest first.
| Town | Population | Schools | English | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plessisville | 6,774 | 6 | 0 | 1.1 km |
| … | ||||
| Oka | 4,312 | 11 | 2 | 2.6 km |
| Saint-Ambroise | 4,262 | 2 | 0 | 17 km |
| East Angus | 4,261 | 3 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| Ormstown | 4,259 | 4 | 2 | 1.9 km |
| Crabtree | 4,237 | 5 | 0 | 5.5 km |
| Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix | 4,230 | 6 | 0 | 3 km |
| La Pocatière | 4,206 | 4 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Napierville | 4,187 | 2 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Carleton-sur-Mer | 4,175 | 6 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||
| Fossambault-sur-le-Lac | 2,505 | 4 | 0 | 2.1 km |
In 79 of the 212 others the count is higher. Teaching in English: 61 of the 213 have it.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Crabtree
For each nearby town, its schools in or within 3 km of its outline, with straight-line distances.
| Town | Schools | English | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crabtree | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 km |
| Saint-Paul 4 km | 19 | 1 | 2 | 2.4 km |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé 5.1 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 km |
| Joliette 6.3 km | 26 | 2 | 2 | 0.6 km |
| Saint-Liguori 7.4 km | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4.6 km |
| Saint-Jacques 7.4 km | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Saint-Charles-Borromée 8.9 km | 25 | 2 | 2 | 1.3 km |
26 schools make Joliette the best supplied neighbour.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Boards and systems. Public schools here answer to a service centre (French) or a school board (English); private schools answer to their own boards.
- The year. The provincial list for 2025-26.
- One school, two buildings. The ministry lists buildings, not schools: a two-building school has two entries here.
- What isn’t here. What no open list gives: inspection grades, several years of enrolment, and Ontario’s private schools.
- The kinds of school. Each school is elementary, secondary or all-grade by the grades it teaches; alternative, adult and online programs sit in a group of their own.
- Which schools count. A 3 km band around Crabtree’s outline is included, as it is for every town on the site.
Questions about schools in Crabtree
How do I get a place at a school in Crabtree?
Start with the body of the network you choose: it names the school for the address.
Is there a English-language school in Crabtree?
None within 3 km of Crabtree. The English-language board serves it from schools further off.
Sources: Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec, school locations (CC BY 4.0) · 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).