Photo: Misspixels (Isabelle Gagné) · CC BY-SA 4.0Val-David has 3 independent schools among its 11
École Imagine, École Imagine, Jardin d'enfants Imagine and Collège Laurentien are among them. None of them teaches in English, though 10% of schools in Quebec do. The 3 km around Val-David counts 8 elementary schools, 1 secondary school and 2 schools for every grade. No schools grade in Quebec: the ministry publishes its success rates by school service centre, not school by school.
Who runs Val-David’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: the French service centres, the English boards, independent and other schools.
Split by system, that is French service centres 8 and independent 3.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
Schooling in English and French around Val-David
The language each school teaches in, against every school in Quebec.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in Quebec.
All teach in the province’s majority language; none 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.
Where the 11 schools in and around Val-David are
A pin for every school, its colour the system it belongs to.
Points from the provincial lists.
How children get a place in Val-David
English schools in Quebec
A certificate of eligibility opens the English public schools; most children qualify for French-language schools only.
Independent schools
Independent schools choose their students and charge fees, with part of their costs paid by the province when they qualify.
The neighbourhood school
No application round, no lottery: the address fixes the school, and the board handles the paperwork.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 11 schools in and around Val-David
High schools within reach of Val-David
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
6 secondary schools are within 15 km: 3 French public, 2 independent and 1 English public. École Imagine lies closest, 0.3 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| École ImagineAll grades | – | Independent | 0.3 km |
| Collège LaurentienAll grades | – | Independent | 1.5 km |
| Polyvalente des MontsSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Laurentides | French public | 6.3 km |
| Polyvalente des MontsSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Laurentides | French public | 6.8 km |
| Académie de Sainte-AgatheAll grades | Commission scolaire Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier | English public | 7.3 km |
| École secondaire Augustin-Norbert-MorinSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Laurentides | French public | 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otterburn Park | 9,460 | 21 | 2 | 2.1 km |
| … | ||||
| Amqui | 6,059 | 6 | 0 | 0.9 km |
| Saint-Henri | 6,048 | 2 | 0 | 11 km |
| Richelieu | 6,048 | 12 | 1 | 5.1 km |
| Lac-Mégantic | 5,947 | 3 | 0 | 1.7 km |
| Val-David | 5,920 | 11 | 0 | 0.4 km |
| Sainte-Martine | 5,884 | 9 | 0 | 2 km |
| Verchères | 5,819 | 13 | 0 | 4.7 km |
| Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire | 5,764 | 101 | 4 | 0.6 km |
| Waterloo | 5,714 | 5 | 1 | 0.5 km |
| … | ||||
| Dunham | 3,632 | 11 | 2 | 6 km |
More schools are within reach in 38 of the 141 other towns. 62 towns of the 142 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 Val-David
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-David | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0.4 km |
| Val-Morin 2.8 km | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1.4 km |
| Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts 6.6 km | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0.4 km |
| Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides 8.4 km | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.4 km |
| Sainte-Adèle 9.3 km | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2.1 km |
| Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson 11 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 km |
| Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard 14 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 km |
Most schools next door: Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The kinds of school. Middle and junior high schools count as secondary when they start at Grade 7 or later, elementary otherwise.
- Which schools count. A 3 km band around Val-David’s outline is included, as it is for every town on the site.
- Boards and systems. French-language public schools belong to service centres (centres de services scolaires), English ones to school boards; private schools run themselves.
- The year. The province’s 2025-26 list.
- What isn’t here. Ontario’s private schools aren’t in the open list; no province publishes inspection grades.
- One school, two buildings. A school in two buildings appears twice, once per building, as the ministry lists them.
Questions about schools in Val-David
How do I get a place at a school in Val-David?
The family’s address sets the school; the service centre or board takes the registration.
How many schools are there in Val-David?
The town holds 4 of them; 7 more are within 3 km of its outline.
Is there a English-language school in Val-David?
None within 3 km of Val-David. 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).