After the Supreme Court's decision in 1990 to acknowledge the right of English and French minorities in Canada to manage their own education (the 'Mahe case'), Alberta granted, in 1993, through Law 8, the right for francophone minorities to manage the education in French as first language for those entitled, as specified by the Article 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In 1993-1994 three francophone school boards are created (Center-North, North-West, and North-East), as well as three francophone coordinating councils (Calgary, Lethbridge, and Fort McMurray). In July 2000, the creation of the Greater Southern Public Francophone Education Region No. 4 Authority, covering the jurisdictions of the South Central Regional Francophone Coordinating Council No. 6 and the Southern Regional Francophone Coordinating Council No. 7, completed the French management of francophone schools in Alberta by five francophone school authorities.

The school board obtained its official charter in August 2001. The council's mission is to 'grant that each student will have access to an education aimed for excellence and suited for their intellectual, emotional, physical, linguistic, socio-cultural and ethical needs'. The Council favours the partnership between home, school, and community in the pursuit of its mission and, since its creation, worked for the improvement of programs offered in the communities of Calgary, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Airdrie, Okotoks and Brooks.