Homes in the Esther Starkman School Catchment: What Sold, and for How Much

In the most recent 12 months in the sold data — November 9, 2025 to November 8, 2026 — 61 single-family homes sold in Terwillegar Towne, the one neighbourhood wholly inside the Esther Starkman School catchment, at a median sold price of $549,900 and a median of 20 days on market. Including condos, there were 82 sales in total. Esther Starkman is Terwillegar's Kindergarten-to-Grade 9 school — and this page needs to be upfront about something most school guides would gloss over: its primary catchment is much smaller than the "Terwillegar" name suggests, and this page counts only what can be counted honestly.

Here is the short version. EPSB designates exactly two areas to Esther Starkman as its primary catchment: Terwillegar Towne and the western half of South Terwillegar. The sold data organises sales by whole neighbourhood — there is no honest way to take half of South Terwillegar's 201 sales — so this page counts Terwillegar Towne alone (82 sales) and leaves South Terwillegar out entirely, disclosed below rather than quietly included. If you are buying in South Terwillegar for this school, the address check in the last section is not a formality; it decides which school you actually get.

The sold figures

Window for every figure in this table: November 9, 2025 – November 8, 2026. Source: Paragon MLS® sold data, counted by neighbourhood — see "How these numbers were worked out" below. These figures describe Terwillegar Towne only — the counted part of the catchment.

Single-family homes in Terwillegar Towne sold for between $388,000 and $1,285,000; two-thirds (67%) sold under $600,000 and 97% under $1,000,000 — a classic established-suburb profile, moving at a healthy 20-day median.

Condos totalled 21 sales at a median of $314,000, with 90% under $350,000 — the townhome and apartment stock around Terwillegar Towne's edges — taking a slower median of 36 days.

What the Esther Starkman catchment covers

Esther Starkman School is an Edmonton Public Schools (EPSB) school for Kindergarten to Grade 9, at 2717 Terwillegar Way NW. For the 2026–27 school year, EPSB's designation data assigns Starkman a primary catchment of Terwillegar Towne and Terwillegar South (West) — the western half of the South Terwillegar neighbourhood. The eastern half of South Terwillegar designates Nellie Carlson School instead. The school's own registration page describes an "open boundary with secondary attendance areas: Terwillegar South East and Leger" — a secondary attendance area means students there may be accepted after primary-catchment residents; it is not the same as being in the catchment, and Leger's designated junior high is actually Riverbend. Starkman is also the overflow designated school for Joey Moss School — again, an overflow relationship, not catchment.

Two things buyers get wrong about this catchment:

1. "Terwillegar" is not a catchment. Within a few streets you can designate Starkman (Towne, South Terwillegar West), Nellie Carlson (South Terwillegar East), Riverbend for junior high (Haddow, Hodgson, Leger) — four different answers under one neighbourhood label. Listing descriptions get this wrong constantly.
2. "Open boundary" is not a promise. Starkman's open-boundary/secondary language describes an admissions order, not a designation. If your plan depends on a Starkman seat from a secondary area, you are behind every primary-catchment resident in the queue.

To confirm a specific address, use Edmonton Public Schools' Find a School tool or call EPSB Planning at 780-429-8539.

How these numbers were worked out — please read this before using them

School catchment boundaries do not line up exactly with Edmonton neighbourhood boundaries. These figures are based on the neighbourhood listed on this page — Terwillegar Towne — which is wholly inside this school's attendance area as published by Edmonton Public Schools for the 2026–27 school year (EPSB's neighbourhood designation data, read November 9, 2026). Sales in neighbourhoods that are only partly inside the catchment are excluded — so these figures are a community-based approximation of the catchment, not an exact count of sales inside the catchment boundary. The big exclusion, stated plainly: South Terwillegar recorded 201 sales in the window and none of them are counted here. Its western half designates Esther Starkman and its eastern half designates Nellie Carlson, and the sold data cannot split a neighbourhood in half — so the whole community is excluded rather than half-guessed. That means this page understates the true catchment's sales, deliberately, in the direction of honesty. Leger (34 sales) is also excluded: it is a secondary attendance area for Starkman, not its primary catchment. Catchments also change: confirm your designated school for a specific address with the board's Find a School tool before you buy.

Buying or selling in the Esther Starkman catchment

If you are buying for this school: Terwillegar Towne is the sure ground — wholly designated, Kindergarten through Grade 9 in one school, detached homes at a $549,900 median. If you are looking in South Terwillegar, treat the catchment question as a per-address investigation, not a neighbourhood assumption: west of the dividing line you are Starkman, east of it you are Nellie Carlson, and a listing's "Terwillegar" label won't tell you which.

If you are selling in Terwillegar Towne: a K–9 designation in a single school is a genuine selling feature for young families — one school run for a decade — and the 20-day detached median says the market agrees. Price against the Terwillegar Towne figures on this page, not blended Terwillegar numbers that mix in newer South Terwillegar stock.

Either way, verify the address first. In this catchment more than any other in the series, the exact address is the whole question — confirm yours in EPSB's Find a School tool before you buy or list on the strength of this school.

See more sold prices, and get the next in-catchment listing first

• Browse sold prices across Edmonton: the Sold Explorer on Bridge Realty Group — https://bridgerealtygroup.ca/communities/sold-prices
• Search homes and register for alerts: sign up for home search on https://bridgerealtygroup.ca — registration is how you get new Terwillegar Towne listings, and sold-price updates, as they happen.
• Talk it through: call Travis Bannert at 780-720-8240. Tell Travis the school matters and he will check the catchment address-by-address with you before you tour — and if you are selling, he will price your home against the actual in-catchment sales above, not a citywide average.

Travis Bannert, Realtor® | Bridge Realty Group, Maxwell Progressive Realty
780-720-8240 | bridgerealtygroup.ca

Sources for this page

• Edmonton Public Schools neighbourhood designation data (2026–27), published for the Find a School tool, read November 9, 2026.
• Esther Starkman School registration page (open boundary; secondary attendance areas Terwillegar South East and Leger): https://estherstarkman.epsb.ca/forparents/registration/
• Edmonton Public Schools — Find a School tool help: https://www.epsb.ca/schools/findaschool/fast/help/
• Sold figures: Paragon MLS® sold data, Terwillegar Towne, November 9, 2025 – November 8, 2026, counted as described in "How these numbers were worked out."

Frequently asked questions

Which neighbourhoods are in the Esther Starkman catchment?
As a primary catchment: Terwillegar Towne and the western half of South Terwillegar (EPSB's "Terwillegar South (West)"). The eastern half of South Terwillegar designates Nellie Carlson School. Terwillegar South East and Leger are secondary attendance areas, which is a different, weaker status. Confirm any specific address in EPSB's Find a School tool.

What did a single-family home in the Esther Starkman catchment sell for recently?
Counting Terwillegar Towne — the part of the catchment the sold data can measure honestly — 61 single-family homes sold in the 12 months from November 9, 2025 to November 8, 2026 at a median sold price of $549,900, with a median of 20 days on market. Sales ranged from $388,000 to $1,285,000.

Why aren't South Terwillegar's sales counted?
Because the community is split between two schools' primary catchments (Starkman in the west, Nellie Carlson in the east) and sold data is recorded by whole neighbourhood. Counting all 201 sales would credit Starkman with homes that designate another school; counting none, and saying so, is the honest option.

Is Leger in the Esther Starkman catchment?
Not as a primary catchment. Leger is a secondary attendance area for Starkman and its designated junior high is Riverbend. Secondary status means possible acceptance after primary-catchment residents — not a designation.