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Elementary · Southwest Coquitlam · Mariner Way · Finnigan · SD43 Coquitlam School District
Updated November 2026 · Craig Johnston, REALTOR® (BCFSA Licence #187645)
A Coquitlam REALTOR®'s read on Cape Horn Elementary — what the school offers, which neighbourhoods feed in, and what to know about the catchment housing in Southwest Coquitlam · Mariner Way · Finnigan.
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What should you know about Cape Horn Elementary?
Cape Horn Elementary School — Cape Horn Elementary School is an elementary school in Coquitlam, serving grades K–5 in the Southwest Coquitlam · Mariner Way · Finnigan area. Southwest Coquitlam K-5 near the Fraser River. Address: 155 Finnigan Street, V3K 5J2. Phone 604-526-4428.
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Verified school facts · SD43
School type
Elementary
Grades
K–5
District
SD43 (Coquitlam School District)
Address
155 Finnigan Street, Coquitlam, BC V3K 5J2
Phone
Website
Administration (2025–26)
Lindsay Goodridge (Principal)
Local representation
School Trustee: SD43 Board of Education contact → · MLA: Coquitlam-Maillardville
In-catchment registration
Cross-catchment / school of choice
Catchment locator
School details verified against the SD43 school page (June 2026). Bell schedules, administrators, and program details can change year to year — confirm the current year directly with the school office before relying on any specific number.
Enrolment snapshot
Real, sourced enrolment figures for Cape Horn — pulled from the School Guide enrolment tool so you're not relying on a guess.
Current enrolment
229 students
2025–2026 school year
Grades served
K–5
Standard English-stream catchment school
A grade-by-grade enrolment breakdown was not reliably available for Cape Horn from the source consulted — rather than estimate it, we're leaving it out. Total enrolment cross-referenced via the School Guide enrolment tool at schoolguide.vtco.app, retrieved September 2026 (School Year 2025–2026). Confirm current-year, per-grade numbers directly with the school office.
What this school is best known for
Cape Horn is a standard SD43 neighbourhood K-5 in the southwest pocket of Coquitlam, near the Fraser River and Mariner Way. No specialty programs — straightforward English-stream catchment elementary.
Programs & academic profile
Standard BC elementary curriculum delivered by SD43-certified teachers.
SD43 inclusive-education model — resource teachers, learning support, counselling.
Standard SD43 English Language Learning programming.
District-wide, under SD43's Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement. Indigenous Support Teachers and Child & Youth Care Workers, scholarships, land-based learning, and the All Nations Canoe Event, serving grades K–12 across SD43.
District-wide, grades K–12. Full-year (10-month) and summer options, with ESL and Culture Programming and a Teacher Training Program; qualifying secondary students can access AP and IB coursework.
Standard SD43 elementary athletics — choir, cross-country, intramurals.
SD43 has discontinued regular bus transportation district-wide.
Catchment, feeders & cross-catchment
Southwest Coquitlam — Finnigan Street, Cape Horn Avenue, Mariner Way area.
K-entry school.
Banting Middle / Como Lake Middle (verify by specific address).
SD43 allows cross-catchment enrolment when space permits, allocated by lottery with in-district and sibling priority. SD43 cross-catchment policy →
Catchment lines run down individual streets and can put one side of a road in one catchment and the opposite side in the next. Always verify a specific address with the SD43 school locator before relying on any boundary statement.
Inside the catchment · housing read
Inside the Cape Horn Elementary catchment in Southwest Coquitlam · Mariner Way · Finnigan, you're looking at established residential streets. Verify the exact catchment for your address through the SD43 locator before committing — boundary lines can run down individual streets.
The verified record
Cape Horn Elementary is a public kindergarten-to-grade-five school operated by School District 43, carrying provincial school code 04343010. It stands at 155 Finnigan Street in Coquitlam, postal code V3K 5J2, and the office line is 604-526-4428. The principal is Lindsay Goodridge.
Taken from the B.C. Ministry of Education's Student Success record for this school rather than from a directory or an aggregator. School listings elsewhere drift quietly as staff move between buildings, and a parent who rings a dead number or asks for a principal who left two years ago has been failed by the page they trusted rather than helped by it. If any of this has changed since the page was last reviewed, the ministry record outranks it.
Programme track
Cape Horn runs a single-track English programme across the whole of kindergarten to grade five. There is no French Immersion stream on this site, and that is worth establishing before you commit to an address rather than after.
Southwest Coquitlam does have Early French Immersion, but it runs elsewhere. École Rochester and École Porter Street are the dual-track English and Early French Immersion schools nearest this part of the city.
Immersion is a programme of choice, not a catchment entitlement. Living inside the Cape Horn catchment gives you no claim on a seat at either of those schools — you apply, and placement runs on the same space-permitting basis as any other choice programme in the district.
After grade five
Cape Horn is a kindergarten-entry school, so the usual pattern is that families arrive at the start and move through together to the end of grade five.
From there the catchment feeds toward Banting Middle or Como Lake Middle for grades six to eight, and which of the two applies depends on your specific address rather than on the elementary catchment as a whole. This is the single most common thing families get wrong when they buy on a school: the elementary and middle catchments are drawn separately, and a house can sit comfortably inside one while falling on the far side of the other.
If the middle school matters to you as much as the elementary does, check both boundaries for the exact address through SD43's locator while your subjects are still in place.
The catchment on the ground
The school stands on Finnigan Street, and the catchment covers the Cape Horn and Mariner Way side of southwest Coquitlam, running down toward the Fraser. It is one of the older parts of the city and it borders Maillardville, so the housing stock and the price bands shift noticeably from one end of the catchment to the other.
Rather than compress that into a thin paragraph here, it is written up where it belongs: the Cape Horn area guide covers the immediate neighbourhood and the Maillardville guide covers the streets on the western edge. Read whichever matches the addresses you are actually looking at.
Frequently asked questions
Cape Horn Elementary is a K–5 SD43 neighbourhood school in Southwest Coquitlam · Mariner Way · Finnigan. A southwest Coquitlam K-5 close to the Fraser River / Mariner Way area — standard SD43 neighbourhood catchment school. For families inside the catchment, it offers the standard SD43 elementary program with the supports parents typically expect — learning support, ELL, and Indigenous-Education programming through the district.
Southwest Coquitlam — Finnigan Street, Cape Horn Avenue, Mariner Way area. Always verify a specific address through the SD43 school locator before relying on it.
Lindsay Goodridge. Verified against the B.C. Ministry of Education Student Success record for this school (school code 04343010). Administrator assignments do change between school years, so if you are contacting the office about something time-sensitive it is worth confirming with SD43 directly.
Banting Middle / Como Lake Middle (verify by specific address). Confirm the exact middle school for your address with the SD43 locator.
Most SD43 neighbourhood elementaries are English-only. SD43's French Immersion entry points are different schools — see the SD43 French Programs page for the current list of K-entry FI sites.
Yes — through the SD43 cross-catchment / school-of-choice process when space permits. Placements are allocated by lottery with in-district and sibling priority.
No. SD43 has discontinued regular bus transportation district-wide. Parents drive or arrange private transportation.
155 Finnigan Street, Coquitlam, BC V3K 5J2. Phone 604-526-4428.
Continue your Coquitlam school research
Main hub
The full SD43 schools guide for the Tri-Cities.
Hub
Ranked guide to the top Coquitlam SD43 schools.
Programs
Every SD43 French Immersion entry point.
Private
Independent schools serving Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam.
Sources & methodology
School facts verified against the SD43 Cape Horn Elementary school page and the SD43 Board of Education / Trustees page. Catchment, registration, and cross-catchment information from SD43's registration and cross-catchment pages, and the SD43 school locator. Current enrolment (229 students, 2025–2026) and program confirmation (Indigenous Education Support, SD43 International Student Program) are sourced from the School Guide tool at schoolguide.vtco.app, retrieved September 2026; a grade-by-grade enrolment breakdown was not reliably available from that source for this school, so it has been left out rather than estimated. MLA riding confirmed via Elections BC's official My District lookup for this address, retrieved September 2026. All SD43 links on this page were re-checked in September 2026, after SD43 relaunched its website. Real estate commentary is the professional opinion of Craig Johnston, REALTOR® (BCFSA Licence #187645), working under Royal LePage Elite West and serving the SD43 Tri-Cities market.
Page reviewed and dated June 2026; enrolment and program details refreshed September 2026. BCFSA Licence #187645. Confirm school program details with the school office before relying on them for an enrolment decision.
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