Nearly all primary and secondary schools in the province of Nova Scotia are public schools maintained by the provincial government's Department of Education. While providing guidelines, the government divides administration of public education over seven regional school districts and one province wide school district serving the province's Acadians.
Post-secondary schools consist of the provincial government operated community college system, Nova Scotia Community College and independently managed universities which receive some public funding. (For a list of post-secondary institutions see List of colleges and universities in Nova Scotia.)
There are seven English-language school districts in Nova Scotia, all created by the Nova Scotia Education Reform Act, 2018: Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education Cape Breton - Victoria Regional Centre for Education Chignecto - Central Regional Centre for Education Halifax Regional Centre for Education South Shore Regional Centre for Education Strait Regional Centre for Education Tri-County Regional Centre for Education
There is a single province-wide French school district: Conseil scolaire acadien provincial
Description of Nova Scotia public grade schools A high school in Nova Scotia has typically meant a 'senior high school', referring to a school responsible for the education of students grades 10 to (and including) 12 or grades 9 to 12. A junior high school is typically responsible for grades 7 to 9 or grades 6 to 8, where the latter type is more often called a middle school. Some rural high schools combine junior and senior high schools, providing education for grades 7 to 12.
An elementary school is responsible for the education of students from grade kindergarten (usually referred to in Nova Scotia as "grade primary") or grade 1 to grade 5 or 6. A number of Nova Scotian schools combine elementary or the later grades of elementary with junior high or the earlier grades of junior high to form what is referred to as a consolidated school. (Note: The term 'consolidated' is also confusingly used in the naming of a few elementary schools too in the province). Finally, a few schools have all grades from kindergarten to 12.
In summary prominent patterns by which Nova Scotian grade school students attend school are as follows: 1)elementary school, grades pr to 6; junior high school, grades 7 to 9; high school, 10 to 12 2)elementary school, grades pr to 5; middle school, grades 6 to 8; high school, 9 to 12 3)elementary school, grades pr to 6; junior and senior high school 7 to 12 4)consolidated school, grades pr to 9; high school, 10 to 12 5)elementary school, grades pr to 4; consolidated school, grades 5 to 9; high school, grades 10 to 12.
List of Nova Scotia public grade schools The following are all the public schools in Nova Scotia listed according to the board by which they are managed, and by county. The numbers provided (in parentheses) refer to the grades of each school, where "pr" refers to primary = kindergarten and "to" entails "including". Next to the grades is given the community each school in located in.
Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education
Annapolis County Annapolis East Elementary School (pr to 5); 325 Marshall Street, Middleton Annapolis Royal Regional Academy (6 to 8); 590 George Street, Annapolis Royal Annapolis West Education Centre (9 to 12); 100 Champlain Drive, Annapolis Royal Bridgetown Regional Elementary School (pr to 6); 7 Park Street, Bridgetown Bridgetown Regional High School (7 to 12); 456 Granville Street, Bridgetown Champlain Elementary School (pr to 5); 109 North Street, Granville Clark Rutherford Memorial School (pr to 5); 63 Spinnaker Drive, Cornwallis Lawrencetown Consolidated School (pp-pr to 5); 10 Middle Road, Lawrencetown Middleton Regional High School (6 to 12); 18 Gates Avenue, Middleton
Kings County
Aldershot Elementary School (pr to 5); 446 Aldershot Road, Kentville Berwick & District School (pr to 9); 220 Veterans Drive, Berwick Cambridge & District Elementary School (pr to 6); 6113 Trunk 1, Cambridge Station Central Kings Rural High School (7 to 12); Cambridge Station Coldbrook & District School (pr to 8); 2305 English Mountain Road, Coldbrook Dwight Ross School (pr to 5); Greenwood Evangeline Middle School (6 to 8); New Minas Gaspareau Valley Elementary School (pr to 5); 2459 Greenfield Road, Wolfville Glooscap Elementary School (pr to 5); 1017 J. Jordan Road, Canning Hantsport School (pr to 9); 11 School Street, Hantsport Highbury Education Centre (10 and 11); 1042 Highbury Road, New Minas Horton High School (9 to 12); 75 Greenwich Road South, Wolfville Kings County Academy (pr to 5); 25 School Street, Kentville Kingston District School (pr to 5); 630 Pine Ridge Avenue, Kingston L.E. Shaw Elementary School (pr to 6); 486 Oak Island Road, Avonport New Minas Elementary School (pr to 5); 34 Jones Road, New Minas Northeast Kings Education Centre (6 to 12); 1816 Bains Road, Canning Pine Ridge Middle School (6 to 8); 625 Pine Ridge Avenue, Kingston Port Williams Elementary School (pr to 5); 1261 Belcher Street, Port Williams Somerset & District Elementary School (pr to 6); 4339 Brooklyn Street, Berwick St. Mary's Elementary School (pr to 5); 1276 Victoria Road, Aylesford West Kings District High School (9 to 12); 1941 Trunk 1, Auburn Wolfville School (pr to 8); 19 Acadia Street, Wolfville
West Hants Municipality Avon View High School (9 to 12); 225 Payzant Drive, Windsor Brooklyn District Elementary School (pr to 6); 8008 Trunk 14, Newport Dr. Arthur Hines Elementary School (pr to 6); 75 Musgrave Road, Summerville Falmouth District Elementary School (pr to 6); 30 School Road, Falmouth Newport Station District Elementary School (pr to 6); 1989 Wentworth Road, Newport Three Mile Plains School (pr to 5); 4555 Trunk 1, Three Mile Plains West Hants Middle School (6 to 8); 8009 Trunk 14, Newport Windsor Elementary School (pr to 6); 100 Tremaine Crescent, Windsor Windsor Forks District Elementary School (pr to 6); 120 Sangster Bridge Road, Curry's Corner
Cape Breton - Victoria Regional Centre for Education
Cape Breton Regional Municipality Bras d'Or Elementary School (pr to 5); 10 Alder Point Road, Bras d'Or Breton Education Centre (6 to 12); 667 Eighth Street, New Waterford Brookland Elementary School (pr to 5); 153 Cottage Road, Sydney CBVRSB Adult High (adults only); 290 Whitney Avenue, Sydney Coxheath Elementary School (pr to 5); 30 Mount Florence Street, Coxheath Cusack Elementary School (p to 5); 500 Birch Hill Drive, Sydney Donkin-Gowrie Complex (p to 8); 81 Centre Avenue, Donkin Dr. T.L Sullivan School (p to 8); 256 Park Road, Florence Glace Bay Elementary School (p to 5); 135 Brookside Street, Glace Bay Glace Bay High School (9 to 12); 201 Reserve Street, Glace Bay Greenfield Elementary School (pr to 5); 25 James Street, New Waterford Harbourside Elementary School (pr to 5); 15 Church Street, Sydney John Bernard Croak V.C. Memorial School (pr to 5); 10 Second Street, Glace Bay Jubilee Elementary School (pr to 5); 755 Main Street, Sydney Mines Malcolm Munroe Middle School (6 to 8); 125 Kenwood Drive, Sydney River Marion Bridge Elementary School (pr to 5); 3845 Gabarus Highway, Marion Bridge Memorial Senior High School (9 to 12); 80 Memorial Drive, Sydney Mines Mountainview Elementary School (p to 5); 21 Delta Drive (6295), Howie Centre Oceanview Education Centre (6 to 8); 60 Wallaces Road, Glace Bay Riverside Elementary School (pr to 5); 7430 Hornes Road, Albert Bridge Riverview Rural High School (10 to 12); 57 Coxheath Road, Coxheath Robin Foote Elementary School (pr to 5); 125 Sunnydale Drive, Westmount Seton Elementary School (pr to 5); 25 Wilkie Dr, North Sydney Sherwood Park Education Centre (6 to 8); 500 Terrace Street, Sydney Shipyard Elementary School (pr to 5); 30 Mount Kemmel, Sydney St. Anne's Elementary School (pr to 5); 108 Main Street, Glace Bay Sydney Academy (9 to 12); 49 Terrace Street, Sydney Sydney Mines Middle School (6 to 8); 596 Main Street, Sydney Mines Sydney River Elementary School (pr to 5); 35 Phillips Street, Sydney River Tompkins Memorial Elementary School (pr to 5); 60 Main Street, Reserve Mines Whitney Pier Memorial Middle School (6 to 8); 199 Jamieson Street, Sydney
Victoria County
Baddeck Academy (pr to 12); Post Office Box 310, Baddeck Boularderie Elementary School (pr to 6); 12065 Kempt Road, Boularderie Island Cabot Education Centre (7 to 12); 32039 Cabot Trail, Neil's Harbour Cape Smokey Elementary School (pr to 6); 39 Brandon Lane, Ingonish Middle River Consolidated School (pr to 6); 2248 Cabot Trail, Middle River North Highlands Elementary School (pr to 6); 1363 Bay Street Lawrence, Aspy Bay Rankin School of the Narrows (pr to 12); 4144 Highway 223, Iona
Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education
Pictou County (Celtic) A.G. Baillie Memorial School (pr to 6); New Glasgow Acadia Street School (pr to 6); New Glasgow Adult High School - New Glasgow Area (adults only); New Glasgow
Dr. W.A. MacLeod Elementary School (pr to 6); Stellarton East Pictou Middle School (7 to 9); Thorburn F.H. MacDonald Elementary School (pr to 6); Thorburn G.R. Saunders Elementary School (pr to 5); Stellarton Highland Consolidated Middle School (7 to 8); Westville New Glasgow Junior High School (7 to 9); New Glasgow North Nova Education Centre (10 to 12); New Glasgow Northumberland Regional High School (9 to 12); Westville Pictou Academy (7 to 12); Pictou McCulloch Education Centre (pr to 6); Pictou River John Consolidated School (pr to 9); River John Salt Springs Elementary School (pr to 5); Salt Springs Scotsburn Elementary School (pr to 5); Scotsburn Temperance Street School (pr to 6); New Glasgow Thorburn Consolidated School (pr to 9); Thorburn Trenton Elementary School (pr to 4); Trenton Trenton Middle School (5 to 9); Trenton Walter Duggan Consolidated School (pr to 6); Westville West Pictou Consolidated School (pr to 8); Outside of Pictou
Cumberland County (Chignecto) Advocate District School (pr to 12); Advocate Harbour Amherst Regional High School (9 to 12); Amherst Cumberland North Academy (pr to 6); Brookdale Cyrus Eaton Elementary School (pr to 6); Pugwash E.B. Chandler Junior High School (7 to 8); Amherst Junction Road Elementary School (pr to 6); Springhill Northport Consolidated Elementary School (pr to 6); Northport Oxford Regional Education Centre (pr to 12); Oxford Parrsboro Regional Elementary School (pr to 6); Parrsboro Parrsboro Regional High School (7 to 12); Parrsboro Pugwash District High School (7 to 12); Pugwash River Hebert District School (P to 12); River Hebert Springhill Junior/Senior High School (7 to 12); Springhill Spring Street Academy (pr to 6); Amherst Wallace Consolidated Elementary School (pr to 6); Wallace Wentworth Consolidated Elementary School (pr to 6); Wentworth West End Memorial School (pr to 6); Springhill West Highlands Elementary School (pr to 6); Amherst
Central and Northern Colchester County (Cobequid) Adult High School - Truro Area (10 to 12); Salmon River Alice Street Elementary School (pr to 5); Truro **CLOSED** Bass River Elementary School (pr to 3); Bass River Bible Hill Central Elementary School (pr to 4); Bible Hill Bible Hill East Court Road Elementary School (pr to 4); Bible Hill Bible Hill Junior High School (8 to 9); Bible Hill Central Colchester Junior High School (6 to 9); Truro Chiganois Elementary School (pr to 5); Masstown Cobequid Consolidated Elementary School (pr to 5); Old Barns Cobequid Educational Centre (9 to 12); Truro Debert Elementary School (pr to 6); Debert Douglas Street Elementary School (pr to 5); Truro Great Village Elementary School (pr to 4); Great Village Harmony Heights Elementary School (pr to 5); Salmon River North Colchester High School (7 to 12); Tatamagouche **CLOSED** North River Elementary School (pr to 6); North River Princess Margaret Rose Elementary School (pr to 5); Truro Redcliff Middle School (5 to 7); Truro