List of school districts in British Columbia


This is a list of school districts in British Columbia. British Columbia in Canada is divided into 60 school districts which administer publicly funded education until the end of grade 12 in local areas or, in the case of francophone education, across the province.

Changes

Many school districts were in existence prior to British Columbia joining Canada in 1871. Some districts were just single schools or even one teacher. Traditionally school districts in British Columbia were either municipal, which were named after the municipality such as Vancouver or Victoria, or rural and given a regional name. Many districts' names are a legacy of this pattern. In 1946, the Ministry of Education rearranged the province's 650 school districts into 79, giving each a number and a name. The school districts were numbered geographically started in the southeast corner and proceeding in a counter-clockwise pattern. This has been disrupted by successive changes to districts. The most recent changes occurred in April 1996 with the restructuring and reduction in the number of school districts from 79 to 57.
Old School DistrictNew School District
1 Fernie, 2 Cranbrook5 Southeast Kootenay
3 Kimberley, 4 Windermere, 18 Golden6 Rocky Mountain
7 Nelson, 86 Creston-Kaslo8 Kootenay Lake
9 Castlegar, 11 Trail20 Kootenay-Columbia
12 Grand Forks, 13 Kettle Valley51 Boundary
14 Southern Okanagan, 16 Keremeos53 Okanagan Similkameen
17 Princeton, 31 Merritt58 Nicola-Similkameen
15 Penticton, 77 Summerland67 Okanagan Skaha
24 Kamloops, 26 North Thompson73 Kamloops/Thompson
29 Lillooet, 30 South Cariboo74 Gold Trail
32 Hope, 76 Agassiz-Harrison78 Fraser-Cascade
65 Cowichan, 66 Lake Cowichan79 Cowichan Valley
80 Kitimat, 88 Terrace82 Coast Mountains
21 Armstrong-Spallumcheen, 89 Shuswap83 North Okanagan-Shuswap
55 Burns Lake, 56 Nechako91 Nechako Lakes