Elementary · Burke Mountain (upper) · SD43 Coquitlam School District
Updated July 2026 · Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960
A Coquitlam REALTOR®'s read on Coast Salish Elementary — what the school offers, which neighbourhoods feed in, and what to know about the catchment housing in Burke Mountain (upper).
Quick Answer
What should you know about Coast Salish Elementary Catchment Homes?
Coast Salish Elementary School (3538 Sheffield Avenue, V3E 0M4) — full school profile: programs, catchment, registration, feeder pathway, plus a Coquitlam REALTOR® Craig Johnston, Top 1% Team Member — Greater Vancouver REALTORS® and 47+ year Tri-Cities resident, can walk you through the local context. Free Strategy Call ends with a written one-page plan in 24 hours.
Quick answer
Coast Salish Elementary School — Coast Salish Elementary School is a elementary school in Coquitlam, serving grades K–5 in the Burke Mountain (upper) area. SD43's newest school — Burke Mountain, Clean Energy Champion designated. Address: 3538 Sheffield Avenue, V3E 0M4. Phone 604-468-7700.
Verified school facts · SD43
School type
Elementary
Grades
K–5
District
SD43 (Coquitlam School District)
Address
3538 Sheffield Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3E 0M4
Phone
Website
Administration (2025–26)
Frank Pearse (Principal)
Enrolment
Approximately 200 students at opening (September 2023); growing.
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.
What this school is best known for
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
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 Indigenous Education programming applies.
Standard SD43 elementary athletics — choir, cross-country, intramurals.
SD43 has discontinued regular bus transportation district-wide.
Catchment, feeders & cross-catchment
Upper Burke Mountain — Sheffield Avenue area and adjacent newer residential streets.
K-entry school.
Summit Middle / Scott Creek Middle (catchments still settling as Burke Mountain builds out).
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 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.
The verified record
Grades K-5, public, School District 43 — that is Coast Salish Elementary in summary. The school is at 3538 Sheffield Avenue in Coquitlam (V3E 3H1), 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
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
Students here promote to summit Middle / Scott Creek Middle (catchments still settling as Burke Mountain builds out).
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
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 is a K–5 SD43 neighbourhood school in Burke Mountain (upper). SD43's newest school — a $52.3M Burke Mountain build that opened September 5, 2023 with a Clean Energy Champion designation for sustainability. 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.
Upper Burke Mountain — Sheffield Avenue area and adjacent newer residential streets. Always verify a specific address through the SD43 school locator before relying on it.
Frank Pearse. Verified against the B.C. Ministry of Education Student Success record for this school (school code 04343028). 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.
Summit Middle / Scott Creek Middle (catchments still settling as Burke Mountain builds out). 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.
3538 Sheffield Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3E 0M4. Phone 604-468-7700.
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 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. Real estate commentary is the professional opinion of Craig Johnston, REALTOR® license V99960, working under The MACNABS at Royal LePage Elite West and serving the SD43 Tri-Cities market.
Page reviewed and dated June 2026. License V99960 · BCFSA-regulated. Confirm school program details with the school office before relying on them for an enrolment decision.
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.
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