Our Vision

Engagement, Support, and Success for each learner. 

Our Mission

Each learner entrusted to our care has unique gifts and abilities. It is our mission to find out what these are…Explore them... Develop them... Celebrate them!

Our Organizational Purpose

Placing education at the centre of a flourishing community.

The Board of Trustees is committed to govern by assuring that our students and all who support them can flourish.

• We are committed to visionary leadership that inspires opportunities and initiatives to impact the engagement, support, and success of our learners and our communities across the Division. 
• We are committed to engaging, communicating, and collaborating meaningfully with our learners and communities. 
• We are committed to providing a welcoming, caring, respectful, safe, flexible, and inclusive learning environments that embrace diversity within a culture of belonging.  
• We are committed to building positive professional relationships and providing rich, meaningful, and appropriate learning experiences that are responsive to the needs of our learners and our communities.

Learn more about the Board of Trustees Foundational Statements here.

Division Profile

• Foothills School Division (FSD) serves the learning needs of approximately 8,000 students in junior kindergarten (pre-kindergarten) through grade 12, and employs more than 900 teachers and support staff who are focussed on our common purpose of placing education at the centre of a flourishing community. 
  
  
• Located on the City of Calgary’s southern border within the Municipal District of Foothills, the Division encompasses the Towns of Okotoks, High River, Diamond Valley as well as the communities served by our Blackie, Cayley, Heritage Heights (DeWinton), Longview, Millarville and Red Deer Lake (south Calgary) schools.
  
  
• Governed by six publicly elected Board of Trustees, FSD operates 21 public schools, an open campus location providing academic support programs, and three Hutterite Colony schools.
  
  
• We are committed to academic excellence in all areas of education:  academics, the arts, athletics, and career and technology instruction.  Together with strong character education, we believe these are all equally important contributors to the development and future employability of our students.
  
  
• FSD is a Place for All.  We promote safe, caring, welcoming, and inclusive learning environments for our students and focus on developing healthy, respectful relationships at all levels –  with our students, school families, and team members.