Pembina Hills Regional Division No. 7

Coordinates: 54°7′24″N 114°24′8″W / 54.12333°N 114.40222°W

Pembina Hills
Pembina Hills Regional Division No. 7
Board office location 5310 49th Street
Barrhead, Alberta, Canada
Communities served Woodlands County, County of Barrhead No. 11, Westlock County, SE portions of Big Lakes County, S portions of the M.D. of Lesser Slave River No. 124, and all towns and villages within those municipal districts.
Number of schools 16
2009-2010 budget (CAD$ million) 48.6[1]
Number of students 4,590[1]
Chair of the Board Douglas Fleming
Superintendent Egbert Stang
Elected Trustees Dale Schaffrick, Barrhead (rural)
Kim Webster, Barrhead (rural)
Sharon Volorney, Barrhead (town)
Sheri Watson, Swan Hills (town)
Sherry Allen, Westlock (rural)
Annette Bokenfohr, Westlock (rural)
Douglas Fleming, Westlock (town)
Official site

Pembina Hills Regional Division No. 7 is the public education authority for a region of central Alberta centred on the towns of Westlock, Barrhead, and Swan Hills.

The current regional school district was created on January 1, 1995 during a wave of school board amalgamation in Alberta, during the Progressive Conservative government of Ralph Klein. Pembina Hills was formed by a voluntary merger of Westlock School Division No. 37, the educational component of the County of Barrhead No. 11 and Swan Hills School District No. 5109.

Prior to that union, the Barrhead and Westlock areas had previously been part of a regional school division, Pembina School Division No. 37, which was split in 1947 into the Westlock and Barrhead School Divisions. In 1959, the Municipal District of Barrhead consolidated with the school district to form a county. The first school district in Swan Hills (Oil Hills School District No. 5109) was not formed until 1959.

Schools

As of 2010

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "2009-2010 PHRD Budget Report" (PDF). Pembina Hills Regional Division. Retrieved 30 June 2010.