Photo: Félix Mathieu-Bégin · CC BY-SA 4.0Around La Sarre, 6 elementary schools and 1 secondary school: 7 schools in all
Centre de services scolaire du Lac-Abitibi runs every one of them. 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 7 schools in and around La Sarre 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 La Sarre
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in Quebec marked.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Quebec.
Schooling in English isn’t on offer here.
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 La Sarre’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: the French service centres, the English boards, independent and other schools.
One system runs them: every one French service centres.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in La Sarre
English schools in Quebec
A certificate of eligibility opens the English public schools; most children qualify for French-language schools only.
The neighbourhood school
Ask the board first. It holds the enrolment list and points each street to its own school; out-of-area requests go ahead only with space to spare.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 7 schools in and around La Sarre
High schools within reach of La Sarre
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
Within 15 km there is one high school, Cité étudiante Polyno (0.8 km).
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cité étudiante PolynoSecondary | Centre de services scolaire du Lac-Abitibi | French public | 0.8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milton-Parc | 11,369 | 75 | 20 | 0.3 km |
| … | ||||
| Chandler | 7,323 | 6 | 2 | 3.1 km |
| Val-des-Sources | 7,303 | 5 | 1 | 0.4 km |
| Chibougamau | 7,273 | 7 | 2 | 0.4 km |
| Saint-Paul | 7,208 | 19 | 1 | 2.4 km |
| La Sarre | 7,199 | 7 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Les Cèdres | 7,145 | 12 | 2 | 5.5 km |
| Shannon | 7,088 | 2 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| L'Ange-Gardien | 7,068 | 11 | 1 | 4.6 km |
| Saint-Honoré | 6,984 | 8 | 0 | 9.5 km |
| … | ||||
| Oka | 4,312 | 11 | 2 | 2.6 km |
Of the 135 others, 69 count more schools. 68 towns of the 136 have a English-language school.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around La Sarre
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Sarre | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Macamic 16 km | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Palmarolle 16 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 km |
None of its 2 neighbours has more schools in reach.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Each school is placed by its address point; those inside La Sarre or within 3 km of it are here.
- The kinds of school. Where a province publishes grades, the card gives them; elementary and secondary follow those grades.
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025-26.
- Boards and systems. Public schools here answer to a service centre (French) or a school board (English); private schools answer to their own boards.
- What isn’t here. Ontario’s private schools aren’t in the open list; no province publishes inspection grades.
- One school, two buildings. The ministry lists buildings, not schools: a two-building school has two entries here.
Questions about schools in La Sarre
Is there a English-language school in La Sarre?
There is none in or near La Sarre (within 3 km); the English-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
How do I get a place at a school in La Sarre?
Registration is with the school body, not the school; the neighbourhood school follows the address.
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).