Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0The 5 schools of Valcourt: 3 elementary schools and 2 secondary schools
Centre de services scolaire des Sommets is the only board. 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 Valcourt 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 Valcourt
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.
None of them 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 Valcourt’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: the French service centres, the English boards, independent and other schools.
No mix of systems here: 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 Valcourt
The neighbourhood school
Families enrol through the board, which assigns the school serving their street; transfers depend on space.
English schools in Quebec
Under the Charter of the French Language, a child goes to an English public school only with a certificate of eligibility, generally because a parent did most of elementary school in English in Canada. Everyone else attends French-language 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 Valcourt
High schools within reach of Valcourt
Every secondary school within 15 km of the town, nearest first.
Within 15 km, families can reach 2 high schools: 2 French public. École secondaire de l'Odyssée lies closest, 2.4 km from the centre.
| School | Board | System | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| École secondaire de l'OdysséeSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Sommets | French public | 2.4 km |
| École secondaire de l'OdysséeSecondary | Centre de services scolaire des Sommets | French public | 2.5 km |
Distances in a straight line from the town’s centre point.
Schools in the towns around Valcourt
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valcourt | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2.5 km |
| Valcourt 2.6 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 km |
| Racine 10 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8.2 km |
| Saint-Joachim-de-Shefford 15 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 km |
| Roxton 16 km | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 km |
| Roxton Falls 16 km | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 km |
| Durham-Sud 17 km | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 km |
No neighbour of the 6 counts more schools.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The year. As the province lists them in 2025-26.
- Boards and systems. A service centre runs the French-language public schools of its territory, a school board the English ones.
- 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.
- Which schools count. Schools inside Valcourt and those within 3 km of its outline: a family nearby would weigh them all.
- The kinds of school. Middle and junior high schools count as secondary when they start at Grade 7 or later, elementary otherwise.
Questions about schools in Valcourt
Is there a English-language school in Valcourt?
Not near Valcourt: within 3 km there is none, and the English-language board points to the closest.
How do I get a place at a school in Valcourt?
Start with the body of the network you choose: it names the school for 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).