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Superintendent
  
Patricia Gartland

Schools
  
70

Website
  
www.sd43.bc.ca

Phone
  
+1 604-939-9201

Chair of the board
  
Judy Shirra

Budget
  
CA$200.7 million

Area
  
120 km²

Number of students
  
32,000

School District 43 Coquitlam

Address
  
550 Poirier St, Coquitlam, BC V3J 6A7, Canada

Hours
  
Open today · 8:30AM–4:30PMFriday8:30AM–4:30PMSaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday8:30AM–4:30PMTuesday8:30AM–4:30PMWednesday8:30AM–4:30PMThursday8:30AM–4:30PMSuggest an edit

School District No. 43 (Coquitlam) or SD43 is one of the sixty school districts in British Columbia. The district is the third largest in British Columbia with 45 elementary schools, 14 middle schools, and 11 secondary schools. School District No. 43 (Coquitlam) serves the Tri-Cities, including the cities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, and the villages of Anmore and Belcarra. The school district covers an area of 120 square kilometres and serves a total combined population of 210,390 residents. It has over 4,000 full-time and part-time employees. The school district has one of the highest graduation rates in the province, with 91.9% of students graduating in the 2013/14 school year.

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Administration

As of January 2016, the current superintendent of SD43 is Patricia Gartland. The five municipalities served by SD43 are represented by elected trustees that serve on the Board of Education. There are currently 9 elected trustees in SD43. The chair of the board is Judy Shirra, and the vice-chair is Michael Thomas.

District Programs

  • Diverse Student Services
  • Core French
  • Early French Immersion (starting in Kindergarten, or Grade 1)
  • Late French Immersion (starting in Grade 6)
  • Montessori Alternate Program
  • EAL/Multiculturalism
  • International Education
  • Continuing Education
  • Community Schools
  • Settlement Workers In School
  • District wide gifted programming
  • Summer Learning
  • French Immersion

    The first French Immersion program in SD43 was implemented in 1968 at Alderson Elementary. In 1978, the district implemented a late French Immersion program. Currently there are 5,900 students enrolled in the program. This comprises 10.3% of the total district student population.

    Coquitlam Open Learning

    SD43 offers online, Learning Centre, and FastTrack courses to eligible British Columbia students through Coquitlam Open Learning (COL). Learning Centre courses are online or paper-based and allow the student to drop in at the Coquitlam Learning Opportunity Centre (CLOC), while FastTrack courses have some regularly schedule classes, with the rest of the course instruction occurring online.

    COL also operates Inquiry Hub Secondary School, which is an alternate secondary school focused on a flexible and inquiry-based education. Students learn through online study, group project work, personal inquiry time, and seminars. It opened September 2012 at the former site of Millside Elementary. The school meets Ministry of Education requirements while still allowing students to meet learning outcomes with a more flexible approach. Most recently, the school received the 2014-15 Ken Spencer Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning.

    References

    School District 43 Coquitlam Wikipedia


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