The Rocky View Schools Division (RVS) is the public school board that serves Rocky View County in the province of Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

. The region includes the communities and hamlets of Balzac

Balzac, Alberta

Balzac is a hamlet in the southern portion of the Canadian province of Alberta, in Rocky View County. It is located immediately west of Queen Elizabeth II Highway, at the intersection with Highway 566, north of Calgary city centre and south of Airdrie....

, Bottrel

Bottrel, Alberta

Bottrel is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County.Bottrel is located approximately 65 km northwest of Calgary, just off Highway 22. Bottrel features a historic general store with campground....

, Bragg Creek

Bragg Creek, Alberta

Bragg Creek is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County in Division No. 6. It is also recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada....

, Cochrane Lake

Cochrane Lake, Alberta

Cochrane Lake is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County. Statistics Canada also recognizes it as a designated place under the name of Cochrane Lake Subdivision....

, Conrich

Conrich, Alberta

Conrich is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County.Conrich is located east of the City of Calgary's eastern limits and approximately northeast of Downtown Calgary on McKnight Boulevard. It has been anticipated that the hamlet will eventually be annexed by Calgary...

, Elbow Valley

Elbow Valley, Alberta

Elbow Valley is a rural community in southern Alberta, in Rocky View County. The Elbow Valley area is located immediately west of the City of Calgary, along Highway 8. The Hamlet of Bragg Creek is west of Elbow Valley. The area is mostly residential.-History:...

, Dalemead

Dalemead, Alberta

Dalemead is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County.Dalemead is located approximately 35 km southeast of Downtown Calgary and 3.2 km south of Highway 22X along a Canadian Pacific Railway line....

, Dalroy

Dalroy, Alberta

Dalroy is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County. It is located approximately 28 km east of Downtown Calgary and 0.8 km east of Highway 9....

, Delacour

Delacour, Alberta

Delacour is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County. It is located approximately east of the City of Calgary, and from its downtown. The hamlet features a creek valley setting and The Canal at Delacour Golf Club.- History :...

, Indus

Indus, Alberta

Indus is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County.Indus is located approximately 6.1 km east of the City of Calgary's eastern limits and 24 km southeast of Downtown Calgary on Highway 791, 0.6 km north of Highway 22X.Indus is home to a recreation complex that...

, Janet

Janet, Alberta

Janet is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County. It is located on Township Road 240, approximately east of downtown Calgary, southwest of the Town of Chestermere, and south of Highway 1A...

, Kathyrn

Kathyrn, Alberta

Kathyrn is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County.Kathyrn is located approximately 32 km northeast of Downtown Calgary on Highway 566, 1.6 km west of Highway 9. A Canadian National Railway line runs northeast through Kathyrn towards Three Hills.Neil McKay, a...

, Keoma

Keoma, Alberta

Keoma is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County.Keoma is located approximately 35 km northeast of Downtown Calgary, on Highway 566, 2.0 km east of Highway 9 and 19 km north of the Trans-Canada Highway.Keoma is an Indian name for “over there”, far away...

, Langdon

Langdon, Alberta

Langdon is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County.At an elevation of , Langdon is located east of the City of Calgary at the intersection of Highways 560 and 797, south of the Trans Canada Highway and north of Highway 22X.The hamlet is located in census...

, Madden

Madden, Alberta

Madden is a hamlet in southern Alberta under the jurisdiction of Rocky View County.Madden is located approximately north of Downtown Calgary on Highway 574, west of the Town of Crossfield on Highway 2A and west of Highway 2 ....

, Shepard, the Bearspaw

Bearspaw, Alberta

Bearspaw is a rural community in southern Alberta, Canada within Rocky View County consisting mostly of country residential acreages.Bearspaw is located northwest of the City of Calgary and east of the Town of Cochrane, on Highway 1A...

-Glendale

Glendale, Alberta

Glenbow is a rural community in southern Alberta, in Rocky View County. The community is located northwest of the City of Calgary and east of the Town of Cochrane, on Highway 1A. The Glenbow area is immediately west of Bearspaw....

 area, and Springbank

Springbank, Alberta

Springbank is a rural community in southern Alberta in Rocky View County. It is located immediately west of the City of Calgary, east of Highway 22, south of the Bow River and north of the rural community of Elbow Valley...

, the village of Beiseker

Beiseker, Alberta

Beiseker is a village in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Calgary. It is considered to be an outermost part of the Calgary Region and is included within Calgary's Census Metropolitan Area...

, the towns of Chestermere

Chestermere, Alberta

Chestermere is a town adjacent to the City of Calgary in the Province of Alberta, Canada within Rocky View County. It is largely a bedroom community of Calgary and is a member municipality of the Calgary Regional Partnership...

, Cochrane

Cochrane, Alberta

Cochrane is a town in the Canadian province of Alberta. The town is located 18 km west of the Calgary city limits along Highway 1A. With a population of 15,424 , Cochrane is the second largest town in Alberta and one of the fastest growing communities in Canada...

, Crossfield

Crossfield, Alberta

Crossfield is a town in southern Alberta, Canada within Rocky View County.Crossfield is located 43 kilometers or north of the City of Calgary, on Highway 2....

, the City of Airdrie

Airdrie, Alberta

Airdrie is a city in Alberta, Canada, located just north of Calgary within the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. The City of Airdrie is part of Calgary's Census Metropolitan Area and a member community of the Calgary Regional Partnership . Due to its proximity to Calgary, Airdrie's population has been...

, and small regions west, north and east of the City of Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

.

The original boards' name was called Calgary Rural Schools Division #41, then eventually changed to Rocky View Schools Division #41.

Size

The RVS serves approximately 17000 students with educational services from grades Kindergarten to Grade 12. The district operates forty schools in its jurisdiction.

Governance

The Rocky View Schools Division is the fifth-largest school board in Alberta, and operates independently of its neighbouring Calgary school boards; Calgary Board of Education

Calgary Board of Education

The Calgary Board of Education is the public school board in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As a public system, the CBE is required to accept any students who meet age and residency requirements, regardless of religion.-Size:...

 and the Calgary Catholic School District

Calgary Catholic School District

The Calgary Catholic School District is the Roman Catholic separate school board in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It also serves the neighboring communities of Airdrie, Chestermere, and Cochrane...

, but still operates under the direct authority of the provincial government of Alberta. The board consists of seven members who are elected every three years during municipal elections to represent seven urban and rural wards.

Special programs

The RVS offers a variety of special program to their students such as French Immersion, Christian Programs, Home Education and Outreach Campuses. The district board also recognises students and their families with First Nations

First Nations

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, Metis

Métis people (Canada)

The Métis are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a distinct aboriginal group, with...

, and Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

 heritage by providing support services and programs through Native Liaison Workers.

Senior high schools

In Alberta, a senior high school teaches grades 10-12. However, due to the population size of its district, rural schools often teach lower grades (Kindergarten to grade 9)

Name	Address	City/Town	Grades
Beiseker Community School	415 - 2nd Ave - Box 357	Beiseker	K-12
Bert Church High School	1010 East Lake Boulevard	Airdrie Airdrie, Alberta Airdrie is a city in Alberta, Canada, located just north of Calgary within the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. The City of Airdrie is part of Calgary's Census Metropolitan Area and a member community of the Calgary Regional Partnership . Due to its proximity to Calgary, Airdrie's population has been...	9-12
Bow Valley High School Bow Valley High School Bow Valley High School is a public secondary school located in the township of Cochrane, Alberta, Canada. The school falls under the jurisdiction of the Rocky View Schools Division...	2000 River Heights Drive	Cochrane Cochrane, Alberta Cochrane is a town in the Canadian province of Alberta. The town is located 18 km west of the Calgary city limits along Highway 1A. With a population of 15,424 , Cochrane is the second largest town in Alberta and one of the fastest growing communities in Canada...	9-12
Chestermere High School Chestermere High School Chestermere High School is a public high school in Chestermere, Alberta, Canada. About 900 students enroll at this school.-External links:*...	R.R #7	Chestermere Chestermere, Alberta Chestermere is a town adjacent to the City of Calgary in the Province of Alberta, Canada within Rocky View County. It is largely a bedroom community of Calgary and is a member municipality of the Calgary Regional Partnership...	9-12
Cochrane High School	3615 Radcliffe Drive S.E.	Cochrane	9-12
George McDougall High School	412 3rd Ave NE	Airdrie	9-12
Rocky View Learning Connections	Bay #2 925 Veterans Blvd NE	Airdrie	1-12
Springbank Community High School Springbank Community High School Springbank Community High School, is a public senior high school in Springbank, Alberta, Canada. Located on the west side of the city of Calgary, the school provides programming to students in grades nine to twelve from the communities of Bragg Creek, Springbank, Redwood Meadows and parts of...	32226 Springbank Road	Calgary	9-12
W G Murdoch High School	Box 750	Crossfield Crossfield, Alberta Crossfield is a town in southern Alberta, Canada within Rocky View County.Crossfield is located 43 kilometers or north of the City of Calgary, on Highway 2.... ,	6-12