[2] The division, with 16 schools having a total of about 3,700 students as of 2021, provides public education to the following central Alberta communities: the towns of Barrhead, Swan Hills, and Westlock, and the Village of Clyde, as well as the counties of Barrhead, Westlock, and Woodlands County.
Sections of Big Lakes County and Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No.
[3] The division was created on January 1,[citation needed] 1995 from the County of Barrhead No.
[3] It was established during a wave of school board amalgamations in Alberta, during the Progressive Conservative government of Ralph Klein.
Prior to that union, the Barrhead and Westlock areas had previously been part of a regional school division, Pembina School Division No.