CBE · Elementary
Chinese (Mandarin) BilingualHighwood School
K-4 · 11 Holmwood Ave NW Calgary, AB T2K 2G5
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.
- Grade truncation (in effect) note
AEAM survey measures · Fall 2025
Each parent, student, and teacher survey measure beside the Alberta average. The verdict is Alberta Education’s own evaluation — it weighs the school’s achievement band and its own trend, so a measure can sit below the Alberta number without a concern or issue flag, or carry one while above it.
- Student Learning Engagement86.3 · 83.9 provinceGood
- Citizenship88.7 · 79.8 provinceGood
- Education Quality91.2 · 87.7 provinceExcellent
- Welcoming, caring, respectful & safe93.4 · 84.4 provinceExcellent
- Access to supports & services84.8 · 80.1 provinceAcceptable
- Parental Involvement86.2 · 80 provinceGood
Survey results reflect who chose to respond and can lag a recent change — how to read these.
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Classes and enrolment
Typical class size
- K to Grade 3
- 24.5Typical for these grades across CBE schools: 22from 12 classes
- Grades 4 to 6
- 24Typical for these grades across CBE schools: 25from 3 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
366 students in 2025/26 (preliminary)
Students enrolled each school year, 2016/17 to 2025/26
- 2016/17: 373 students
- 2017/18: 358 students
- 2018/19: 336 students
- 2019/20: 349 students
- 2020/21: 330 students
- 2021/22: 340 students
- 2022/23: 347 students
- 2023/24: 343 students
- 2024/25: 356 students
- 2025/26: 366 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
- K-4
- Programs
- Chinese (Mandarin) Bilingual
- Address
- 11 Holmwood Ave NW Calgary, AB T2K 2G5
- Neighbourhood
- Highwood (location, not catchment)
CBE schools are assigned by home address. Highwood School is the designated elementary 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.
- Before & after care
From Highwood School's own page “However, a before and after school care program is offered by Kids Come First .”
“Since Highwood School is a Mandarin Bilingual program of choice, all students are taught for half of the day by native English speaking teachers in English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Health.”
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 Highwood School is
11 Holmwood Ave NW Calgary, AB T2K 2G5
Your catchment boundary is set by your home address, not the school’s location — look up your address to confirm zoning.
Sources for Highwood School: Official school page (CBE) · Survey source (SIRR, PDF) · School Development Plan (PDF)
Last updated Jun 2026 · How we score schools