Burnaby Central Secondary School
| Burnaby Central Secondary School | |
|---|---|
 The main entrance of Burnaby Central Secondary in Burnaby, BC | |
| Location | |
6011 Deer Lake Parkway , , Canada 49°14′38.3″N 122°58′30.5″W / 49.243972°N 122.975139°W | |
| Information | |
| School type | Public, high school |
| Motto | Quorum Pars Sum (Of which I am a part) |
| Founded | 1958 |
School board | School District 41 Burnaby |
School number | 4141001 |
Principal | Tim Wozney |
| Staff | 85 |
| Grades | 8–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,437[1] (2015) |
| Language | English |
| Colours | Black, white, red and gold |
| Mascot | Wildcat |
| Team name | Wildcats |
| Website | central |
Burnaby Central Secondary School is a public high school in Burnaby, British Columbia. It is a short distance from Burnaby City Hall and Deer Lake Park. Burnaby Central is a part of Burnaby School District 41. As of 2026, there are more than 1,400 students attending the school.[2] Classes at Burnaby Central usually follow the semester system.[1]
This new school building was constructed where the previous school's outdoor field was located. Construction began on a seismically sound school building in 2009 due to the Seismic Mitigation Program (SMP), a seismic upgrading program.[3] Burnaby Central Secondary School's new campus opened in September 2011.
Facilities
Burnaby Central Secondary has three floors and three wings. The student commons, a double height high ceiling atrium, sits in the middle of the central wing (A) and separates wings B and C. It contains 52 classrooms.[4] Other facilities include:
- Art studios
- Cafeteria
- Braille printing room
- Digital recording studio
- Competition running track
- Electronics lab
- Drafting lab
- Photography dark rooms
- Computer labs (3)
- Food studies kitchen (2)
- Gymnasiums (2)
- Textiles classroom
- Music rooms
- Wrestling room
- Weight room
- Theatre
- Dance studio
- Home economic labs
- Library
- Science labs
- Auto mechanics shop
- Woodwork shop
- Conference centre
- Learning centre[5]
Notable alumni
- Sam Adekugbe, soccer player
- Bryce Alderson, soccer player
- Glenn Anderson, ice hockey player
- Marco Carducci, soccer player
- Caleb Clarke
- Roger Cross, actor
- Alphonso Davies, soccer player
- Charles Demers, Comedian, political activist, voice actor, and writer
- Rob Feenie, Iron Chef winner and restaurateur
- Ben Fisk, soccer player
- Michael J. Fox, actor, activist, dropped out of school
- Kaleigh Fratkin (born 1992), professional ice hockey player
- Julia Grosso, soccer player
- Kaela Hansen, soccer player [6]
- Farhan Lalji, TSN TV reporter
- Patrick Lussier, film director
- Kenndal McArdle, ice hockey player
- Colin Percival, computer scientist
- Dave Steen, decathlete, Order of Canada recipient (first Canadian to score 8,000 points)
- Adam Straith, soccer player
- Russell Teibert, soccer player
- Dale Walters, retired Olympic boxer[7]
References
- 1 2 "Burnaby Central Secondary". Burnaby Schools. Burnaby Board of Education, School District 41. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ↑ "BC Schools - Student Enrolment and FTE by Grade" (CSV). BC Data Catalogue (Document/tabular data). Government of British Columbia. 14 April 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Seismic Mitigation Program". gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ↑ "Burnaby Central Secondary - Burnaby Schools - School District 41, Burnaby, BC, Canada". Burnaby Schools. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ "School Map". Burnaby Central Secondary School. Archived from the original on 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ "Kaela Hansen - 2022 - Women's Soccer". University of Kansas. 2026-08-08. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ "Notable Alumni". Burnaby Central Secondary School. Archived from the original on 16 April 2026. Retrieved 16 April 2026.