Burnaby Central Secondary School

For the electoral district, see Burnaby Central.

Burnaby Central Secondary School is a public high school in Burnaby, British Columbia. It is located across from Burnaby City Hall and is adjacent to Deer Lake Park. Burnaby Central is a part of Burnaby School District 41. As of 2015, there are more than 1,400 students attending the school. Classes at Burnaby Central usually follow the semester system.^[1]

Burnaby Central Secondary School
The main entrance of Burnaby Central Secondary in Burnaby, BC
Address
6011 Deer Lake Parkway Burnaby , British Columbia , V5G 0A9 Canada
Coordinates	49°14′38.3″N 122°58′30.5″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
Colour(s)	Black, white, red and gold
Mascot	Wildcat
Team name	Wildcats
Website	central.burnabyschools.ca

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.^[2] 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 and separates wings A and C. It contains 52 classrooms.^[3] Other facilities include:

• Art studios
• Cafeteria
• Digital recording studio
• Competition running track
• Electronics lab
• Drafting lab
• Photography dark rooms
• Computer labs
• Teaching kitchen
• 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^[4]

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
• 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
• 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

References

1. "Burnaby Central Secondary". Burnaby Board of Education, School District 41. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
2. "Seismic Mitigation Program". gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
3. "Burnaby Central Secondary - Burnaby Schools - School District 41, Burnaby, BC, Canada". Burnaby Schools. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
4. "School Map | Burnaby Central Secondary School". central.burnabyschools.ca. Retrieved 2021-02-03.

External links

• School website