Education and healthcare are provincial responsibilities

The City collects the Provincial Education Requisition (the education tax portion of your annual property tax bill) on behalf of the province. This year alone, residents of Airdrie will contribute nearly $60 million dollars for school operational funding in Alberta.

The Province provides ongoing support and funding for the operations of Airdrie’s schools. This chart outlines capital funding for school construction, upgrades or pre-construction work.

As of April 2026, Airdrie has provincial commitments for construction funding for four new schools, with planning dollars for two additional schools. (Planning and design dollars are pre-steps for allocating funding for the construction of new schools.)

While the need for more schools in Airdrie exists now, it takes 3-5 years to build a new school. Modular classrooms help relieve interim space pressures within existing schools and significant provincial funding was allocated towards this type of support for schools. Information about modular classrooms at Rocky View Schools can be found here. 

Facts about schools and education needs in Airdrie

• RVS welcomed 286 new students in Airdrie as of September 2024, for the 2024/25 school year.
• 2014 was the last time a high school was opened in Airdrie when our population was 54,891.
• The utilization rate of all Airdrie high schools - including all school divisions in the City is 104% (RVS high schools alone are 110% utilized in 2024/25.)
• In RVS, grade configurations and accommodation plans for schools across Airdrie will change beginning in September 2025 to help balance the existing student spaces until new schools approved by the provincial government in 2024 and 2025 can be designed, built and opened.
• Airdrie has nine serviced school sites ready for construction. 

In recent years, the Government of Alberta allocated:

• $8.4 million for upgrades to the Airdrie Urgent Care Centre
• $2 million for planning for an integrated primary and urgent care centre (in addition to the existing, recently upgraded Airdrie Urgent Care)
• $3 million for the planning of a North Calgary/Airdrie Regional Health Centre (Originally allocated in 2023 and recommitted in the 2024 and 2025 provincial budgets.) Information on the progress of the planning of the North Calgary/Airdrie Regional Health Centre can now be found on the Alberta Major Project map.

Alberta Major Projects