Communities within the Division include Okotoks, High River, Drumheller, Oyen, Brooks, Strathmore and Canmore.
The division operates a network of contracted school buses to serve smaller outlying communities as well as farms, ranches and rural dwellers.
Some of the smaller communities served include Black Diamond, Turner Valley, Rosemary, Priddis and Longview.
Among the key parents were Joanne Mercier, Mannie Fink-Fraser, Bev Palko, John Walsh, Ted Tatem, Jim Lewis and Paula Ford {the last five subsequently trustees and the last three chairmen of the board}.
The Conservative provincial Government of Ralph Klein decided in 1994 to reduce the total number of school jurisdictions in Alberta from about 165 to around 60.
The superintendent in Oyen, Len Miller, retired, but was later elected as a trustee for the board from High River, subsequently serving a term as chairman.
The jurisdiction now serves over 7300 students in sixteen schools in seven communities and recently received the Minister's Education Leadership Award (MELRA) in an unprecedented seventeen categories.
The jurisdiction's vision, mission and fundamental beliefs are brought to life by four foundational school community pillars including: faith; learning; safety and care; and stewardship.
As learning communities, schools believe the family is the fundamental unit of society and that parents are the primary educators of their children.
Teachers at common grade levels meet weekly to share strategies and compare student performance.
And the metaresearch findings on effective teaching and classroom were endlessly repeated and incorporated into the working practices of the teachers and principals.
As part of its stewardship of resources pillar, the jurisdiction has become a national leader in designing and constructing "green" school facilities.
The recently opened Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Academy (Canmore, Alberta, Canada) was also designed and built to LEED Gold standards.