Programs
This EIPS program operates campuses in Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan, and Vegreville, offering junior and senior high students a highly flexible hybrid learning model to complete their coursework at their own pace.
What is Next Step
This is the current total number of schools operating across the EIPS division, providing education from kindergarten through Grade 12.
What is 43? (42 now with the amalgamation of Ecole Campbelltown and Sherwood Heights Junior High)
To cut down on internal email clutter, Central Services bundles important division announcements, action items, and teacher updates into this weekly digital digest delivered every Friday.
What is the Weekly Wrap Up?
Consisting of 8 elected community members, this governing body is responsible for creating division policy, approving the annual budget, and advocating for public education across EIPS.
What is the Board of Trustees?
These two schools have identical footprints.
What are Woodbridge Farms and Uncas?
Offered at schools like Brentwood Elementary and Forest Grove Junior High, this fully funded, non-denominational alternative program integrates Christian values and teachings into the standard Alberta curriculum.
What is the Logos Christian Program?
As one of the largest public school divisions in Alberta, EIPS proudly educates a population of roughly this many students.
What is more than 17,000 students?
Gone are the days of lost paper slips; EIPS teachers use this specific intranet-linked digital program to create, send, and track student field trip permission forms and fees.
What is Permission Click?
This department safely manages the massive daily logistics of busing thousands of students across Strathcona, Lamont, and Minburn counties using hundreds of different bus routes.
What is the Student Transportation Department?
This school was accidentally built on a snake hibernaculum - so the administrators have to go snake collecting every year.
What is Mundare?
For families seeking an early start in language immersion, EIPS offers this alternative program beginning in Kindergarten or Grade 1 at schools like Heritage Hills Elementary or École Parc.
What is French Immersion?
EIPS spans a diverse geographic region, including Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan, Vegreville, and the counties of Strathcona, Lamont, and Minburn.
What are the communities served by Elk Island Public Schools?
This Intranet site provides EduKits, a lending library, and monthly foundational knowledge resources.
What is First Nations, Métis, and Inuit?
Whether a teacher needs to reset their network password, request repairs on a classroom Smart Board, or fix issues with their division laptop, this department runs the help desk that handles it.
What is Information Technology (IT)?
A famous 1986 fire—rumored to be started by an overhead projector—destroyed half of this school which had a straw-insulated roof.
What is Fort High School?
Launched as a brand-new Pre-Kindergarten option at select schools like Glen Allan and Win Ferguson, this play-based program focuses on literacy, music, and physical activity to build school readiness.
What is Early Learning in Motion? ELM
The number one priority of the EIPS Four-Year Plan is to promote growth and success for which specific group of people?
Who are the students?
Found right on the intranet home banner, teachers click this specific tab to browse upcoming division workshops, and register for PL sessions.
What is the Professional Learning tab?
This department ensures that EIPS schools stay safe, clean, and warm by managing everything from building maintenance and snow removal to major classroom modernizations.
What is Facilities Services?
From 1962-1994, the exact same local government body that filled potholes and plowed snow in Sherwood Park also hired the teachers and bought the school textbooks.
What is County of Strathcona?
This specialized senior high school initiative gives EIPS students a head start on their careers by offering condensed, immersive courses in areas like Hairstyling, Mechanics, Digital Media Design, and Summer School Work Experience.
What is Campus EIPS?
EIPS explicitly states in its division goals that it wants to create a high-quality environment not just for the kids, but also for this group of people.
Who are the staff?
Need quick access to PowerSchool, Office 365, Atrieve, IT Helpdesk, Vretta and dozens of other frequently used EIPS tools? This browser feature puts them all in one place.
What are the EIPS Chrome Quick Links?
This team coordinates specialized services to build teacher capacity, offering help in areas such as: curriculum implementation, assessment, early learning, career education, Indigenous education and french.
Who are Instructional Supports?
This school was founded in 1953, which actually makes it older than Sherwood Park itself (which was founded as a hamlet in 1955). In its very first year, the school was incredibly small. The entire student body consisted of just 27 students guided by 10 teachers.
What is Sal Comp?