Vision
We provide quality learning opportunities and options. Our students take ownership by discovering and developing their potential, passions and gifts. They take their place as lifelong learners and make a significant contribution within a complex, changing world.
Values
Here is what Elboya is all about: We are a safe, caring, community-minded place. We work together to support each other. We are responsible for our own ongoing learning. We seek to develop compassionate, principled young people who communicate effectively and embrace life-long learning with vigor, enthusiasm, and curiosity. Students will achieve both personal and academic excellence through foundational knowledge, structured inquiry, and community engagement within a global context. Our focus is to develop students’ academic and personal potential through an academically enriching and challenging program of studies with the following key features:
- A traditional body of knowledge through which a disposition to question, explore, research, and create new understandings is supported through structured inquiry.
- Curriculum grounded in a global perspective intended to engage students in thinking about their lives in an international context.
- In support of developing national and international understandings and academic excellence, students receive language and cultural instruction in French and English.
- Responsible and responsive citizenship is achieved in part through attention to character development, nurturance, understanding and respect for other cultures and perspectives.
- Students learn the value of service to their community as a key component of citizenship, as well as the importance of goal setting, challenge in personal growth and positive well-being
School Motto
Learning & Leading Together.
School Colours, Symbol & Mascot
Elboya's school colors are red, white and black. Our symbol is the falcon and our mascot is Inferno, le Predateur.
The school was built in 1954 and is situated on 6.6 acres. The school has 31 classrooms, music room, drama room, art room, science lab, library, 2 gyms (one small and one larger), 1 creative playground. The school hosts Grade 4 through Grade 9 English, Grade 6 Intensive French, Grade 7-9 Late French Immersion and Grades 5-9 Continuing Immersion classes. The school was named after the community in which it is situated.
Elboya School Unique Features
- Teaching and learning are the top priority
- A dynamic and challenging learning climate
- All students, 4-9 work and learn together
- Library resources and facility to support learning
- Elboya House System: Buzzards, Snowy Owls, Night Hawks, Ospreys
- FSL Instruction 4-5
- Intensive French for Grade 6 Students
- English as a Second Language support 4-9
- Specialists in Music, P.E. and French
- Tutoring support
- Outstanding Drama Program with Spring Performance
- Award winning Band & Music Program
- Outstanding Leadership Program
- Engaging Woodworking Option
- Strong Technology program with student access to wireless and networked computers
- Grade 6 Outdoor school
- Band Camps
- Cultural Trip in Grade 9 to Quebec
Our School's Commitment to Truth and Reconciliation
We are committed to acknowledging and supporting the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action specific to education. Our school, along with all CBE schools, made a Truth and Reconciliation Commitment to Action, on June 21, we renewed our commitment.
View Our Truth and Reconciliation Commitment | 2025-2026
School Development Plan
Each year, our school prepares a development plan with input from teachers, school staff, students and parents. We review many sources of data, including report cards, provincial achievement test results and school surveys. Based on this information, we create our plan identifying targeted areas for growth. Our school development plan is not meant to represent all of the work that takes place in our school, but rather it focuses on specific areas for improvement.
View Our School Development Plan | 2024-2025
School Improvement Results Report
Our school also prepares a results plan, which looks at our previous school year. It shows our students’ achievement and progress in meeting the goals and outcomes as set out by the CBE and Alberta Education, outlines some of the highlights of our school development plan and gives an overview of our school. You can look on the CBE website for system-wide results.