Middle · Central Coquitlam · Como Lake · Austin Heights · SD43 Coquitlam School District
Updated September 2026 · Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960
A Coquitlam REALTOR®'s read on Como Lake Middle — what the school offers, which neighbourhoods feed in, and what to know about the catchment housing in Central Coquitlam · Como Lake · Austin Heights.
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What should you know about Como Lake Middle?
Como Lake Middle School — Como Lake Middle School is a middle school in Coquitlam, serving grades 6–8 in the Central Coquitlam · Como Lake · Austin Heights area. Central Coquitlam middle with strong student-services breadth. Address: 1121 King Albert Avenue, V3J 1X8. Phone 604-936-1451.
Verify your exact address
Check whether your address is actually inside the Como Lake Middle catchment.
SD43 catchments are set by address, not by neighbourhood name. Enter your street in the district’s official School Locator to see the schools that serve your home. This is the authoritative source.
Verified school facts · SD43
School type
Middle
Grades
6–8
District
SD43 (Coquitlam School District)
Address
1121 King Albert Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3J 1X8
Phone
Website
Administration (2025–26)
Devon Ross (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 Como Lake Middle — cross-referenced against BC's public school enrolment reporting so you're not relying on a guess.
Current enrolment
337 students
2025–2026 school year
Grades served
6–8
Standard SD43 middle-school program
Enrolment by grade
School Year 2025–2026
Grade 8 enrolment was not published in the source consulted, and we are not backing out an estimate from the school-wide total. The published Grade 6 (129) and Grade 7 (139) figures add to 268 — short of the school's reported overall enrolment of 337 — which points to a real Grade 8 headcount that just isn't broken out at the source. Confirm the current year's exact grade-by-grade counts with the school office.
Enrolment cross-referenced against publicly reported BC K–12 school enrolment data for SD43, retrieved September 2026 (School Year 2025–2026).
What this school is best known for
Como Lake is a standard SD43 neighbourhood middle school serving central Coquitlam — no specialty FI or MACC program, but a notably broad student-services suite including Gifted programming, ESL, Learning Assistance, a Learning Resource Program, and a Skill Development Program.
Programs & academic profile
Standard BC middle-school curriculum taught by subject specialists.
Music, performing arts, visual arts, technology education, home arts.
Volleyball, basketball, cross-country, track — typical SD43 middle-school program.
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.
SD43 has discontinued regular bus transportation district-wide.
Catchment, feeders & cross-catchment
Central Coquitlam — between Como Lake and Austin Heights, Maillardville-adjacent.
Mundy Road Elementary, Alderson Elementary, Roy Stibbs Elementary, Miller Park Elementary, Mountain View Elementary.
Centennial Secondary.
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 Como Lake Middle catchment in Central Coquitlam · Como Lake · Austin Heights, 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 6-8, public, School District 43 — that is Como Lake Middle School in summary. The school is at 1121 King Albert Ave in Coquitlam (V3J 1X8), reachable on 604 936-1451, with Devon Ross as principal. The province files it under school code 04343078.
The source is the province's own Student Success database. It is worth saying so plainly, because a great deal of what is published about individual schools is copied from copies and quietly out of date.
The pathway
Students here promote to centennial Secondary.
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 central Coquitlam — between Como Lake and Austin Heights, Maillardville-adjacent.
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 Coquitlam neighbourhood guides.
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.
Feeder elementary schools
Alderson Elementary, Miller Park Community School, Mundy Road Elementary and Roy Stibbs Elementary feed into Como Lake Middle. Each entry below carries the school's provincial record — principal, address, office line, grades and official school code — taken from the B.C. Ministry of Education's Student Success database rather than a directory copy. Catchment boundaries for elementary and middle are drawn separately, so confirm any boundary-edge address through SD43's locator before relying on it.
Grades K-5, public, School District 43. 825 Gauthier Ave, Coquitlam V3K 7C4. Office 604 939-8301. Principal David Mushens. Provincial school code 04343004.
SD43 lists it as english, with no immersion stream on site.
Catchment: central Coquitlam — Gauthier / Brunette area, Maillardville-adjacent.
For the housing in that footprint, read maillardville neighbourhood guide.
Grades K-5, public, School District 43. 800 Egmont Ave, Coquitlam V3J 4J8. Office 604 936-4208. Principal Tanya MacDonald. Provincial school code 04343038.
Catchment: central Coquitlam — Egmont Avenue, Austin Heights area.
Grades K-5, public, School District 43. 2200 Austin Ave, Coquitlam V3K 3S1. Office 604 936-4271. Principal Deana McLean. Provincial school code 04343046.
SD43 lists it as english, with no immersion stream on site.
Catchment: burquitlam — Austin Avenue, Mundy Park area.
For the housing in that footprint, read austin heights coquitlam guide and como lake coquitlam guide.
Grades K-5, public, School District 43. 600 Fairview St, Coquitlam V3J 4A7. Office 604 939-2486. Principal Britt Walton. Provincial school code 04343056.
SD43 lists it as english, with no immersion stream on site.
Catchment: west Coquitlam — Fairview Street area near Mundy Park.
For the housing in that footprint, read burquitlam coquitlam guide and burquitlam station homes for sale.
Frequently asked questions
Como Lake Middle is an SD43 grade 6–8 middle school serving Central Coquitlam · Como Lake · Austin Heights. A neighbourhood middle school serving central Coquitlam between Como Lake and Austin Heights — known for its full student-services suite (Counselling, ESL, Gifted, Learning Assistance, Learning Resource Program, Skill Development Program).
Central Coquitlam — between Como Lake and Austin Heights, Maillardville-adjacent. Verify a specific address through the SD43 school locator.
Devon Ross. Verified against the B.C. Ministry of Education Student Success record for this school (school code 04343078). 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.
Mundy Road Elementary, Alderson Elementary, Roy Stibbs Elementary, Miller Park Elementary, Mountain View Elementary.
Centennial Secondary.
Yes — through the SD43 cross-catchment / school-of-choice process when space permits.
No. SD43 has discontinued regular bus transportation district-wide.
Grades 6, 7, and 8.
1121 King Albert Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3J 1X8. Phone 604-936-1451.
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 Como Lake Middle school page, the SD43 Board of Education / Trustees page, and the SD43 school locator. Catchment, registration, and cross-catchment information from SD43's cross-catchment policy page. Enrolment (337 students, 2025–2026 — Grade 6: 129, Grade 7: 139, Grade 8 not published in the source consulted) is cross-referenced against the BC Ministry of Education's Student Headcount by Grade open dataset, 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. All SD43.bc.ca links on this page were re-verified September 2026 after SD43 relaunched its website — the previous SharePoint-style URLs (school page, registration, cross-catchment, and the locator page) have been updated to their current addresses. 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.
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 Como Lake Middle catchment before they hit the public market.
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