Coast Salish Elementary — parents' guide + homes in the catchment.

Verified school facts · SD43

About Coast Salish Elementary.

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.

What this school is best known for

SD43's newest school — a $52.3M Burke Mountain build that opened September 5, 2023 with a Clean Energy Champion designation for sustainability.

Coast Salish Elementary opened in September 2023 as SD43's newest school — a $52.3M Burke Mountain build that earned a Clean Energy Champion designation for sustainability. As the school is still in its first few years, the formal programming and identity are evolving — for now, it's a brand-new K-5 facility anchoring the upper Burke Mountain residential build-out alongside Smiling Creek Elementary.

Programs & academic profile

What Coast Salish Elementary actually offers.

Catchment, feeders & cross-catchment

Where Coast Salish Elementary students come from — and where they go next.

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

Buying inside the Coast Salish Elementary catchment — what I tell clients.

Inside the Coast Salish Elementary catchment in Burke Mountain (upper), 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.

1. Verify the exact catchment for any specific address through the SD43 locator. Catchment lines run down individual streets in Burke Mountain (upper).
2. SD43 does not bus. Plan for driving or walking distance to the school.
3. Cross-catchment placement is available when space permits through the SD43 school-of-choice process — apply if the in-catchment route isn't right.
4. The Coast Salish Elementary feeder relationship into the middle school determines the K → 12 path. Plan ahead if K → 12 continuity matters to your family.

The verified record

The record for Coast Salish Elementary.

Grades K-5, public, School District 43 — that is Coast Salish Elementary in summary. The school is at 3538 Sheffield Avenue in Coquitlam (V3E 0M4), reachable on 604 937-8137, with Frank Pearse as principal. The province files it under school code 04343028.

All of it is taken from the provincial school record. If any of it has changed since this page was last reviewed, that record is the thing to trust over this page.

Programme track

An English-track school — and what follows from that.

SD43 lists this school as english, with no French Immersion stream on site. That is worth settling before you commit to an address rather than after.

Immersion does run elsewhere in Coquitlam — École Rochester, École Porter Street, École Nestor are among the dual-track sites. None of them is reachable by living here, though: immersion is a programme of choice and placement runs on a space-permitting basis wherever you live.

The French Immersion overview sets out which schools host which entry points across the Tri-Cities.

The pathway

Where students go next.

Students here go on to Minnekhada Middle or Kwayhquitlum Middle, depending on the address.

The elementary catchment and the middle catchment are drawn separately. A house can sit comfortably inside one and fall on the far side of the other, which is the single most common thing families get wrong when they buy on a school.

If the later years matter to you as much as the early ones, check every boundary for the exact address through SD43's locator while your subjects are still in place, not after they are removed.

The catchment on the ground

Where this catchment sits.

The catchment covers upper Burke Mountain — Sheffield Avenue area and adjacent newer residential streets.

The housing inside that footprint is not uniform, and compressing it into a paragraph here would do it no favours — nor would it help to repeat what is already written elsewhere on this site. For the streets, the stock and the price bands, read burke mountain detached homes and burke mountain map guide.

Addresses near a boundary should always be confirmed through the SD43 locator before you rely on them. Boundaries move, and they do not follow the lines people assume from a map.

Frequently asked questions

Coast Salish Elementary — FAQ.

Continue your Coquitlam school research

Related Tri-Cities school + catchment pages.

Sources & methodology

School facts verified against the SD43 Coast Salish Elementary school page, the SD43 2025–26 School Listings (administrators) PDF, and the SD43 school locator. Catchment, registration, and cross-catchment information from SD43's cross-catchment policy page. Enrolment (281 students, 2025–2026) is cross-referenced against the School Guide public school-lookup tool (schoolguide.vtco.app), retrieved September 2026; the Indigenous Education Support program and the SD43 International Student Program were cross-referenced against publicly reported SD43 district program information, also retrieved September 2026. Real estate commentary is the professional opinion of Craig Johnston, REALTOR® license V99960, 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. License V99960 · BCFSA-regulated. Confirm school program details with the school office before relying on them for an enrolment decision.

Buying into the Coast Salish Elementary catchment? Talk to Craig.

A long-time Tri-Cities resident and licensed REALTOR®, Craig knows the catchment streets, the boundary risks, and the homes that come up inside the Coast Salish Elementary catchment before they hit the public market.