Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools


Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools or Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 734 is a separate school board serving St. Albert, Morinville, and Legal, Alberta, Canada.
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Quick facts

  • Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools formed in 1995 after the amalgamation of three historic school jurisdictions. It is 4th largest Catholic jurisdiction in Alberta.
  • Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools was the first jurisdiction to offer a cyber school. St. Gabriel High School marked 14 years of success providing online learning opportunities for Alberta and overseas students.
  • Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools was the first jurisdiction in Alberta to offer the Learning Through the Arts program developed by the Royal Conservatory of Music.
2013 - 2014 School Year
  • Superintendent: Mr. David Keohane
  • Schools: 16 located in 3 municipalities with 1 outreach location
  • Students: 6000
  • Teachers: 378
  • Total Staff: 579
  • Trustees: 7
  • Board Chair: Mrs. Joan Crockett
  • Budget: $67.2 million

Board of trustees

  • Vacant – St. Albert Ward
  • Joan Crockett – St. Albert Ward,
  • Serena Shaw – St. Albert Ward
  • Rosaleen McEvoy – St. Albert Ward, Vice Chair
  • Cathy Proulx - Legal Ward
  • Noreen Radford – Morinville Ward, Board Chair
  • Rene Tremblay – Morinville Ward

Programs

Schools

St. Albert:
Legal:
  • Legal School
Morinville:

Alleged human rights violations

In October 2009, it was reported that Jan Buterman, a former employee of the district, had filed a human rights complaint against the district. Buterman claimed that he had been removed from the district's substitute teaching list in 2008 after he declared his intention to transition from a female to male. In a letter to Buterman dated October 14, 2008, the division's deputy superintendent, Steve Bayus, stated "Since you made a personal choice to change your gender, which is contrary to Catholic teachings, we have had to remove you from the substitute teacher list." As of October 15, 2009, the Alberta Human Rights Commission had accepted Buterman's complaint.

2011 Morinville controversy

The Town of Morinville has only a public Catholic high school, and no secular or Protestant high schools, though the surrounding Sturgeon County, is a part of the public Sturgeon School Division. In 2011, this led non-Catholic parents to start an advocacy campaign to secularize education in Morinville.