Updated: December 17, 2025
We are excited to share information about St. Carlo Acutis Catholic High School, our newest high school opening in September 2026. Families will find details about the attendance area, grade levels for the first year, and programs available to students, including Advanced Placement and a Hockey Academy.
Edmonton Catholic Schools gathered community feedback on the proposed attendance area and programming through a November 2025 questionnaire. You can read the What We Heard Report.
Attendance Area
St. Carlo Acutis Catholic High School is located at 11650 153 Ave NW, next to the Castle Downs YMCA, and will serve families who live between St. Albert Trail and 97 Street, from Yellowhead Trail to just north of Anthony Henday Drive. This area is the school’s attendance area, meaning families living within these boundaries are assigned to attend this high school.
Students currently enrolled at Archbishop O’Leary or St. Joseph Catholic High School will not be required to transfer to St. Carlo Acutis when it opens.
The junior high feeder schools for St. Carlo Acutis will be:
2026-2027 School Year
For the 2026-2027 school year, St. Carlo Acutis Catholic High School will open with Grades 10 and 11. Beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, St. Carlo Acutis High School will offer Grades 10, 11, and 12.
Programming at St. Carlo Acutis
Approximately 1,300 students will learn inside the state-of-the-art facility, where they will grow both spiritually and academically as they complete their educational journey. The high school will embrace a 21st-century learning philosophy emphasizing collaboration, engagement, hands-on learning, and focused studies.
In addition to offering a full range of high school academic programming, St. Carlo Acutis will feature two exciting opportunities for students:
Advanced Placement (AP) Program
- The Advanced Placement program is designed to provide motivated High School students with post-secondary level academic courses.
- Students will earn credits, advanced placement, or both for university and college courses.
- Learn more about the Advanced Placement program by watching this video.
Hockey Academy
- Hockey Academies provide superior athletic instruction for student-athletes whose educational experience would be enhanced with hockey-specific training.
- Students will experience on and off-ice training, team building, and improve and develop the physical, mental, and tactical demands of the sport.
- Hockey Academies help create leaders both on and off the ice.
Next Steps
We look forward to welcoming students and families to this vibrant new school community when it opens its doors in September 2026.
Registration and pre-enrolment open on Monday, February 2, 2026. If you have any questions, please email info@ecsd.net.
Archbishop O'Leary Catholic High School Attendance Area
Here is a look at the new Archbishop O’Leary Catholic High School attendance area map. Students currently enrolled at Archbishop O’Leary will not be required to transfer to St. Carlo Acutis.
St. Joseph Catholic High School Attendance Area
Here is a look at the new St. Joseph Catholic High School attendance area map. Students currently enrolled at St. Joseph will not be required to transfer to St. Carlo Acutis.
What We Heard - November Questionnaire
In advance of the opening of St. Carlo Acutis Catholic High School, Edmonton Catholic Schools invited the community to provide feedback on the proposed attendance area map and programming for the new school. Our engagement questionnaire ran from November 4–18, 2025, and received nearly 300 responses:
- 93% of respondents were parents or guardians with a child enrolled in ECSD.
- Of those respondents, nearly three-quarters had students in Grades 7–10.
Key insights from the questionnaire included:
- Strong support for the new school and the programs being proposed.
- High interest in language programming, with French as a Second Language identified as a priority.
- Athletics were popular, with Volleyball, Basketball, Swimming, Soccer, Football, and Golf mentioned most often.
- Sports Medicine was one of the most requested programs, highlighted by 123 respondents.
- Other areas of interest included Fitness, Graphics and Graphic Design, Robotics, and Music/Band.
- Participants emphasized the importance of clear boundaries and feeder school patterns.
Some concerns were raised about the size of the proposed boundary, transportation challenges for families east of the area, and whether the new school would effectively reduce overcrowding at Archbishop O’Leary Catholic High School.
Timelines
| March 2021 | Design Funding Approved |
| March 2022 | Full Construction Funding Approved |
| February 2023 | School Name Announced (Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic High School) |
| June 2023 | Site Blessing |
| Summer 2023 | Construction Begins |
| September 2025 | Canonization of Carlo Acutis |
| September 2025 | School officially renamed St. Carlo Acutis Catholic High School |
| November 2025 | Engagement Questionnaire |
| December 2025 | What We Heard Report |
| December 2025 | Attendance Area and Programming announcement |
| September 2026 | Opening of St. Carlo Acutis Catholic High School |