Photo: Geai bleu · CC BY 3.0In and around Saint-Jacques, 7 schools: 6 elementary schools and 1 secondary school
Centre de services scolaire des Samares is the only board. The schools grade is left out in Quebec, as the ministry publishes its success rates by school service centre, not school by school.
Where the 7 schools in and around Saint-Jacques are
Every school as a pin, coloured by system; each opens its own page.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Saint-Jacques
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Quebec.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Quebec.
There is no English-language school among them.
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 Saint-Jacques’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: the French service centres, the English boards, independent and other schools.
By system, they split: French service centres 6 and independent 1.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Saint-Jacques
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
Fees and admissions are each independent school’s own; the province covers a share of costs for those that meet its rules.
English schools in Quebec
Bill 101 limits English public schools to eligible children, mostly those with a parent schooled in English in Canada.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 7 schools in and around Saint-Jacques
High schools within reach of Saint-Jacques
The high schools a family here could reach, within 15 km.
13 secondary schools are within 15 km: 9 French public, 3 independent and 1 English public. The shortest trip is to Collège Esther-Blondin, 0.7 km.
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Esther-BlondinSecondary | – | Independent | 0.7 km |
| École secondaire de l'AchiganSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 10 km |
| École secondaire de JolietteSecondary | Commission scolaire Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier | English public | 11 km |
| École Barthélemy-JolietteSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 12 km |
| École secondaire du Havre-JeunesseSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 12 km |
| École de l'Espace-JeunesseAll grades | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 12 km |
| École Barthélemy-JolietteAll grades | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 12 km |
| Académie Antoine ManseauSecondary | – | Independent | 13 km |
| École secondaire du Bois-BrûléSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 14 km |
| École secondaire Thérèse-MartinSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 14 km |
All 13 secondary schools
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| École secondaire Thérèse-MartinSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 14 km |
| École Barthélemy-JolietteAll grades | Centre de services scolaire des Samares | French public | 15 km |
| Collège ChampagneurSecondary | – | Independent | 15 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Towns its size in Quebec
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | English | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois | 7,670 | 5 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| … | ||||
| Lemoyne | 5,052 | 63 | 16 | 1 km |
| Warwick | 4,939 | 7 | 0 | 1.3 km |
| Roxton Pond | 4,884 | 4 | 0 | 8.8 km |
| Rivière-Rouge | 4,882 | 4 | 0 | 4 km |
| Saint-Jacques | 4,830 | 7 | 0 | 0.7 km |
| Saint-Agapit | 4,817 | 3 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Sutton | 4,775 | 2 | 1 | 16 km |
| Château-Richer | 4,732 | 2 | 0 | 13 km |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès | 4,675 | 7 | 0 | 11 km |
| … | ||||
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon | 2,916 | 6 | 0 | 4.2 km |
51 out of 174 comparable towns have more schools. 61 of 175 have a school teaching in English.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
Schools in the towns around Saint-Jacques
Each town’s schools in or within 3 km of its outline; distances as the crow flies.
| Town | Schools | English | Catholic or independent | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jacques | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0.7 km |
| Saint-Liguori 5 km | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4.6 km |
| Saint-Alexis 5.8 km | 10 | 0 | 1 | 6.1 km |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé 6.9 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 km |
| Crabtree 7.4 km | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 km |
| Saint-Esprit 9.7 km | 11 | 0 | 0 | 6.7 km |
| Sainte-Julienne 10 km | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1.8 km |
Sainte-Julienne leads the neighbours with 14 schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The year. The province’s school list, 2025-26.
- Boards and systems. Language, not faith, divides Quebec’s public schools: French service centres and English boards share the map.
- One school, two buildings. A school in two buildings appears twice, once per building, as the ministry lists them.
- What isn’t here. Enrolment is a single year, where published at all, and no inspectorate rates schools.
- Which schools count. Counted: Saint-Jacques’s own schools and any within 3 km of its edge.
- The kinds of school. Elementary schools run from kindergarten to Grade 6 or 8, secondary ones to Grade 12; some cover every grade, and alternative, adult and online schools are listed apart.
Questions about schools in Saint-Jacques
How do I get a place at a school in Saint-Jacques?
For an English school, get the certificate of eligibility first; for a French one, the service centre is enough.
Is there a English-language school in Saint-Jacques?
There is none in or near Saint-Jacques (within 3 km); the English-language board covers the area from elsewhere.
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).