School District 36 Surrey operates schools in Surrey, White Rock, and Barnston Island, British Columbia. It is the largest school district in British Columbia with 80,208 students and 195+ languages represented during the 2022-23 school year. District 36 includes 103 elementary schools, 21 secondary schools, 5 learning centres, and 3 adult education centres. While the district was established in 1906 its first school opened in 1882. The district is Surrey’s largest employer with 12,540 employees including 6,716 teachers.[5]
Opened March 21, 1989. Expanded 2000. Principal is Trevor Mcquarrie. Hosts Challenge Program and the Multi-Age Cluster Class (MACC).
Betty Huff Elementary School
Whalley
K-7
Opened 1976.
Bonaccord Elementary School
Guildford
K-7
Bothwell Elementary School
Guildford / Fraser Heights
K-7
Boundary Park Elementary School
West Newton
K-7
Bridgeview Elementary School
Bridgeview / Whalley
K-7
The school's mascot was a lion but is now a bear.
Brookside Elementary School
Newton
K-7
The school's mascot is the bobcat.
Cambridge Elementary School
South Newton / Panorama
K-7
Cambridge Elementary opened in 2006. It received a four-class addition in 2011 to try to get rid of the portables. It feeds into Sullivan Heights Secondary School. Today it is a well known elementary in South Newton Surrey with an enrolment of around 770 students with 33 divisions. It houses 12 portables plus one portable bathroom. It has approximately 23 students per class. The principal is Shawn Nelson.
Cedar Hills Elementary School
Whalley
K-7
Principal is Ms. Douglas.
Chantrell Creek Elementary School
Crescent Park / South Surrey
K-7
Ms. Koppensteiner is the principal. School mascot is an eagle. Hosts the Multi-Age Cluster Class program (MACC).
Chimney Hill Elementary School
East Newton
K-7
mascot is the dragons
Cindrich Elementary School
Whalley / City Centre
K-7
Mrs. Maharaj is the principal. Their mascot is a coyote.
Clayton Heights Elementary School
Clayton
4-7
Cloverdale Traditional School
Cloverdale
K-7
Coast Meridian Elementary School
Fleetwood
K-7
Colebrook Elementary School
Panorama / South Newton
K-7
Cougar Creek Elementary School
West Newton
K-7
Coyote Creek Elementary School
West Newton
K-7
Creekside Elementary School
Whalley / City Centre
K-7
David Brankin Elementary School
Whalley
K-7
Discovery Elementary School
Surrey
K-7
Dogwood Elementary School
Fraser Heights / Guildford
K-7
Has approximately 400 students
Don Christian Elementary School
Cloverdale
K-7
Douglas Elementary School
South Surrey
K-7
Founded: November 2020. Principal: Sundeep Chohan
Dr. F.D. Sinclair Elementary School
Newton
K-7
Edgewood Elementary School
South Surrey / Grandview Heights
K-7
East Clayton Elementary School
Clayton
K-3
East Kensington Elementary School
South Surrey
K-7
École Crescent Park
Crescent Park / South Surrey
K-7
École Henry Bose Elementary School
Newton
K-7
École Riverdale Elementary School
Guildford
K-7
Ellendale Elementary School
Guildford
K-7
Erma Stephenson Elementary School
Fraser Heights / Guildford
K-7
Fleetwood Elementary School
Fleetwood
K-7
Forsyth Road Elementary School
Whalley
K-7
Fraser Wood Elementary School
Fraser Heights / Guildford
K-7
Frost Road Elementary School
Fleetwood
K-7
Principal is Mrs. Bertholm. Their mascot is a wolf named Wolfie.
The school Mascot is an Eagle. Seismic upgrades are being constructed on the 4-7 Grade Wing. With Upgrades Being completed on the gym. The school has the Cloverdale Ball Park located Directly Connecting to school grounds. It has Approximately 546 Students. The School's Principal is Ms. B. Copeland
Georges Vanier Elementary
Newton
K-7
Goldstone Park Elementary
South Newton / Panorama
K-7
Goldstone Park Elementary opened in 2014. It has approximately 700 students and opened to relieve overcrowding at Cambridge Elementary.
Grandview Heights Elementary School
South Surrey
K-7
Closed in 2006.
Green Timbers Elementary School
Fleetwood
K-7
Enrollment 787. The principal is Glen Hilder. First opened in 1930; rebuilt in 1955.[9]
Opened in 2009. Sports teams are the Hazelgrove Hurricanes.
Hillcrest Elementary School
Cloverdale
K-7
Hillcrest Elementary opened in 2000 with approximately 400 students. That number increased by 222 by 2008, although Hazelgrove Elementary took a few students out of the school. The principal was D. White, who retired in 2009. The school is currently[when?] in its tenth year. Has approximately 4,000 students.
Hjorth Road Elementary School
Guildford
K-7
Opened in 1910. Celebrating 107 years as of 2017.
Holly Elementary
Guildford
K-7
Hyland Elementary School
Newton
K-7
Hosts Challenge Program.
J T Brown Elementary School
West Newton
K-7
James Ardiel Elementary School
Whalley
K-7
Approximately 500 students are enrolled.
Janice Churchill Elementary School
East Newton
K-7
Enrolls approximately 400 students. The principal of Janice Churchill is Ixchel Bradley-Buick. Janice Churchill Elementary School is located in the centre of Surrey, BC. It is named after a highly respected teacher who lost her battle to skin cancer at a young age. The school's mascot is a cheetah.
Jessie Lee Elementary School
South Surrey
K-7
Hosts Strongstart program.
K B Woodward Elementary School
City Centre / Whalley
K-7
Katzie Elementary School
Clayton
K-7
Opened in 2013. The school's mascot is the eagle. The principal is Ross Brennan. Enrolment is approximately 900.
Opened October 23, 1964. The current mascot is an orca.
Pacific Heights Elementary School
South Surrey / Grandview Heights
K-7
Opened in 2006. The school's mascot is a phoenix.
Panorama Park Elementary School
South Newton / Panorama
K-7
Peace Arch Elementary School
White Rock
K-7
Hosts Challenge program. The mascot is a raven.
Port Kells Elementary School
Port Kells
K-7
The school's mascot is a panther.
Prince Charles Elementary School
Whalley / Bridgeview
K-7
The school's mascot is a Griffin. Hosts Challenge Program.
Ray Shepherd Elementary School
South Surrey
K-7
The school's mascot is a Hawk.[10] Enrollment is 360 students.[11]
Riverdale Elementary School
Guildford
K-7
French immersion program as well as an English school.
Rosemary Heights Elementary School
South Surrey
K-7
Royal Heights Elementary School
Whalley / Bridgeview
K-7
Founded in 1966 by anthropologist and vocalist Adam R. Knowles. The principal is R. Holman and enrolment is about 250. The school's mascot is the lion.
Semiahmoo Trail Elementary School
South Surrey
K-7
The school's mascot is a coyote.
Senator Reid Elementary School
Whalley
K-7
Founded 1961. The principal is H. Schnee. The lead singer for the band Hedley, Jacob Hoggard, attended Senator Reid. He graduated from L.A. Matheson in 2002.
Serpentine Heights Elementary School
Guildford
K-7
Located in Fleetwood. The school's mascot is the hawk. Hosts Challenge Program.
Simon Cunningham Elementary School
Whalley / City Centre
K-7
French immersion program as well as an English school.
South Meridian Elementary School
South Surrey
K-7
Strawberry Hill Elementary School
West Newton / Strawberry Hill
K-7
Strawberry Hill Elementary is a learning community with 570 students, 378 families and 58 staff members. The community has evolved into one consisting largely of Indo-Canadian and Pak-Canadian families. Most of the students speak Punjabi, English, Urdu or Hindi, with the remaining students speaking a variety of other different languages. Strawberry Hill Elementary opened in 1983.
Sullivan Elementary School
South Newton / Panorama
K-7
Sullivan Elementary School is in the Sullivan Heights neighbourhood with an enrolment of around 295 students (2018/2019). It is getting an addition so it can provide space for more students.
Sunnyside Elementary
South Surrey / Grandview Heights
K-7
Sunnyside Elementary[12] is a dual-track school that offers a Montessori program and a neighbourhood program in South Surrey.
Sunrise Ridge Elementary School
Cloverdale
K-7
Surrey Centre Elementary School
Cloverdale
K-7
Surrey Traditional School
Whalley
K-7
T E Scott Elementary School
East Newton
K-7
T E Scott Elementary School is an elementary school in the East Newton South neighbourhood.
For the first time in history, the Surrey Board of Education passed an annual budget totalling more than a billion dollars for the 2023-24 school year consisting of $602 million for teacher costs and $451 million for all other costs.[14] The largest sources of funds are $945 million in provincial government grants, $17 million in tuition, $9 million in investment income, $4 million in rental and lease income, and $3 million in federal grants.
In the news
The Surrey School District was reported in the national news numerous times during the 1990s and 2000s, most notably for its stand on social issues.
Overcrowding
Surrey had 361 portable classrooms in use by the end of the 2022-23 school year.[15] This number had increased by 20% over the 15 years prior.
Book banning
The District School Board was the focus of major media attention from 1997 to 2002 over its stand on not allowing books about families with same-sex parents to be included as optional learning resources. These books were requested by James Chamberlain, a kindergartenteacher, to reflect on the realities of today's families and to teach his pupils about diversity and tolerance.
A legal battle to overturn the decision to ban the three books went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, where the school board's decision was overturned. The judgment, Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36, cited the need for families headed by same-sex couples to be respected. Chief JusticeBeverley McLachlin dismissed the Board's concerns that children would be confused or misled by classroom information about same-sex parents. She pointed out that the children of same-sex parents are rubbing shoulders with children from more traditional families, and wrote: "Tolerance is always age-appropriate, children cannot learn unless they are exposed to views that differ from those they are taught at home." The legal fees ended up costing Surrey taxpayers over $1,200,000.
Drama production
In 2005, the Surrey School District made national news for cancelling production of The Laramie Project, a play that deals with the murder of a gay university student, in Elgin Park Secondary. Advocates for the play noted that it is designed to teach tolerance toward LGBT people. The school district's administration said that the play contains sex, violence and foul language and is not appropriate as family entertainment.[16] The decision met with outrage from LGBT advocacy organization Egale Canada.[17] A school in neighbouring Vancouver, Lord Byng Secondary School, subsequently chose to stage the play.[18]
Climate change
In May 2007, the Surrey School Board made national news when it voted to instruct teachers not to show Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, until trustees were able to review the film. On the issue of climate change, Board Trustee and social activist Heather Stilwell stated: "I am not sure. I mean I see evidence. I think there is climate change, there's no question about that. Whether what Al Gore says about it is the truth, I have questions."[19]
Bible study
In early November 2009, a Cloverdale father, Paul Jubenvill, requested an extra-curricular, non-instructional, voluntarily-attended Bible club be established during lunch-hour at his sons' school,[20][21] Colebrook Elementary. The school would not permit the club on their property, and the Surrey School District supported the school's position. The father argued that this ban violated the provincial BC Human Rights Code by disallowing a normally available service on the grounds of discrimination against religion. The school district was concerned that permitting the club may have given the appearance of the school endorsing a particular religious ideology. Jubenvill argued that there is a difference between endorsing a faith versus "accommodating" spiritual needs.
A complaint was filed with the BC Human Rights Tribunal; however, Jubenvill withdrew the complaint because he felt that the resulting media attention and the reaction it generated did not accurately represent his intentions and he preferred to address the matter with the school district out of the public eye.[22]
Some secondary schools in the School District have, or have had, overtly Christian clubs (for example, LA Matheson has a prayer club titled "PUSH",[23][24][25] Semiahmoo Secondary had a Crossroad Christian club in 2008 and earlier years,[26] and Fraser Heights Secondary had a Bible Club in 2007[27]).
Roof collapse
At Colebrook Elementary in July 2010, a 75-foot portion of a roof over an exterior walkway collapsed, with no injuries reported.[28] In 2011 the school district initiated legal action against the contractor and architect involved in the design and construction of the roof, which had been built in 1987.[29]
Anti-discrimination code
In November 2013 the School Board adopted an anti-discrimination code to provide protection for students and staff against homophobic and other forms of bullying. Approximately one third of all school districts in the province have policies against homophobic bullying.[30]
Gallery
Holly Elementary School by day
The moon sets over Holly Elementary School, October 14, 2008.
Princess Margaret Secondary School
Colebrook Elementary School; evening shot of the south wing in October 2009
Surrey Centre Elementary School; Dec 2, 2009 (full moon) HDR shot at 11:10 pm
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