Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools 2024

The Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools 2024 ranks 292 public, Catholic, independent and charter secondary schools based on eight academic indicators generated from Grade 12 provincewide testing, grade-to-grade transition and graduation rates.
The Report Card offers parents information they can’t easily get anywhere else, about how schools perform over time and how they compare to other schools in Alberta.
The Report Card collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By doing so, the Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.
Contrary to common misconceptions, the data suggest every school is capable of improvement regardless of type, location and student characteristics.
Forest Lawn High School is one of the province’s fastest-improving schools, climbing from a score of 3.5 (out of 10) in 2017 to 6 in 2023, the latest year of available comparable data, despite 46.2 per cent of the school’s students being English Language Learners and 19 per cent of students having special needs who require additional support.
Over the same period, Strathcona-Tweedsmuir, a private school in Okotoks, improved from a score of 8.2 to 9.7.
The findings in the Report Card show that schools can improve student performance regardless of which communities and students they serve. Improvement is possible and worth celebrating.