CBE · Junior High
Early French ImmersionLate French ImmersionRegularDavid Thompson School
5-9 · 9320 Arbour Cres SE Calgary, AB T2J 0X8
Achievement is down 4.3 pts since 2022. Share of students meeting Alberta's Acceptable Standard, first to latest year measured.
0.4 pts below the median CBE junior high in Calgary (median 71.9).
The methodology
The data behind this score
The Roost Rating weights AEAM above PAT, plus Roost field research, capped at 95. A missing source has its weight shared across the ones that remain, never counted as a zero. This school is rated entirely on exams.
This rating comes from one test: how this school’s Grade 6 students did on Alberta’s provincial exams. We have no survey of parents, students, and teachers for this school, and its absence does not count against the score. A test-only rating does track neighbourhood income more closely than one with survey results behind it, so ask the school what the exams do not show.
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Classes and enrolment
Typical class size
- Grades 4 to 6
- 26Typical for these grades across CBE schools: 25from 13 classes
- Grades 7 to 9
- 27Typical for these grades across CBE schools: 28from 128 classes
Each figure is the middle class size in those grades for 2025/26, among the classes whose sizes are published. A class is one teacher with one group of students, so a group with several teachers counts once per teacher, and in junior and senior high each course section counts. The CBE figure is the middle of every CBE school's own figure for those grades, across Alberta's release.
Students enrolled
681 students in 2025/26 (preliminary)
Students enrolled each school year, 2016/17 to 2025/26
- 2016/17: 308 students
- 2017/18: 577 students
- 2018/19: 517 students
- 2019/20: 552 students
- 2020/21: 511 students
- 2021/22: 554 students
- 2022/23: 614 students
- 2023/24: 599 students
- 2024/25: 632 students
- 2025/26: 681 students
Enrolment moves with boundary changes, new schools nearby, the grades a school offers and how many children live close by. Most schools here had fewer students in 2020/21, the first school year of the pandemic.
Context only: these describe the school's situation, not how well it teaches, and neither is part of the Roost Rating.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Alberta. Source: Alberta Education and Childcare.
Class sizes as of Nov 24, 2025Enrolment 2025/26 is preliminary: Alberta replaces it with final figures later.About these figures
Enrolment
How enrolment works
- Grades
- 5-9
- Programs
- Early French Immersion · Late French Immersion · Regular
- Address
- 9320 Arbour Cres SE Calgary, AB T2J 0X8
- Neighbourhood
- Acadia (location, not catchment)
CBE schools are assigned by home address. David Thompson School is the designated junior high only if your address falls inside its catchment — confirm yours with an address lookup. Alternative programs are application-based and many run an admission lottery — they are not guaranteed by address. See how and when applications work.
- Classes & supports
- Student Services/Resource Team — helps students meet their diverse needs
“David Thompson is a dual-track French immersion/regular program school.”
From the school's own CBE page — care arrangements and class placements change; confirm with the school before you decide.
Register through the Calgary Board of Education.
Where David Thompson School is
9320 Arbour Cres SE Calgary, AB T2J 0X8
Your catchment boundary is set by your home address, not the school’s location — look up your address to confirm zoning.
Sources for David Thompson School: Official school page (CBE) · Survey source (SIRR, PDF) · School Development Plan (PDF)
Last updated Nov 2026 · How we score schools