Elementary · Citadel Heights (temporary location: Coquitlam) · SD43 Coquitlam School District
Updated October 2026 · Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960
A Coquitlam REALTOR®'s read on Hazel Trembath Elementary — what the school offers, which neighbourhoods feed in, and what to know about the catchment housing in Citadel Heights (temporary location: Coquitlam).
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What should you know about Hazel Trembath Elementary?
Hazel Trembath Elementary School — Hazel Trembath Elementary School is an elementary school in Port Coquitlam, serving grades K–5 in the Citadel Heights (temporary location: Coquitlam) area. K-5 currently at temporary Winslow site while new school is rebuilt on original Citadel Heights site. Address: Temporary: 1100 Winslow Avenue, V3J 2G3. Phone 604-941-0517.
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Verified school facts · SD43
School type
Elementary
Grades
K–5
District
SD43 (Coquitlam School District)
Address
Temporary: 1100 Winslow Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3J 2G3
Phone
Website
Administration (2025–26)
Jason Hewlett (Principal)
Enrolment
Approximately 215 students (currently at temporary location post-fire).
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 Hazel Trembath — cross-referenced against BC's public school enrolment reporting so you're not relying on a guess.
Current enrolment
181 students
2025–2026 school year
Grades served
K–5
Standard SD43 English program
Enrolment by grade
School Year 2025–2026
Kindergarten figure backed out from the total headcount (181) since grades 1–5 alone total 150; SD43 does not publish a separate K count for Hazel Trembath in the source consulted. Cross-check with the school office before relying on any single grade's count for planning purposes.
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
Hazel Trembath Elementary is a school in transition. The original Confederation Drive building was destroyed in a suspicious October 14, 2023 fire. Students were rapidly transitioned to a temporary location at the former Winslow Elementary site in Coquitlam (1100 Winslow Avenue), where they continue today. The rebuild is underway — funding confirmed in the 2025 BC budget, capital plan approved, design ~50% complete as of early 2026, community open house targeted for spring 2026. When the new school opens on the original Citadel Heights site, students will return.
Programs & academic profile
Standard BC elementary curriculum, delivered at the temporary location during rebuild.
Embedded counselling supports for students and families post-fire.
SD43 inclusive-education model.
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.
Full-year (10-month) academic program integrating international students into regular Coquitlam classrooms at elementary, middle and secondary levels, plus a July-August Summer ESL/Culture Program and a Teacher Training Program; qualifying secondary students can access AP and IB.
Capital plan approved, design ~50% complete as of early 2026. Community open house targeted spring 2026.
Catchment, feeders & cross-catchment
Original catchment: Citadel Heights, Port Coquitlam (Confederation Drive area). Students currently attend at the temporary Winslow site in Coquitlam.
K-entry school.
Citadel Middle (grades 6–8) once students return to Citadel Heights catchment; Terry Fox 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 Hazel Trembath Elementary catchment in Citadel Heights (temporary location: Coquitlam), 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 Hazel Trembath Elementary in summary. The school is at 1278 Confederation Dr in Port Coquitlam (V3C 6L9), reachable on 604 941-0517, with Jason Hewlett as principal. The province files it under school code 04343022.
That record is the provincial one, not an aggregator's copy. Directory sites go stale without announcing it, and a parent who rings a dead number has been failed by the page rather than helped by it.
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 Port Coquitlam — École Coquitlam River, École Westwood 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 citadel Middle (grades 6–8) once students return to Citadel Heights catchment; Terry Fox 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 original catchment: Citadel Heights, Port Coquitlam (Confederation Drive area). Students currently attend at the temporary Winslow site in Coquitlam.
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 homes for sale.
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
Hazel Trembath Elementary is a K–5 SD43 neighbourhood school in Citadel Heights (temporary location: Coquitlam). A Port Coquitlam K-5 destroyed by a suspicious October 2023 fire. Students are temporarily housed at the former Winslow site in Coquitlam while a new school is rebuilt on the original Citadel Heights Confederation Drive site — capital plan approved, design ~50% complete, community open house targeted spring 2026, funding confirmed in the 2025 BC budget. 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.
Original catchment: Citadel Heights, Port Coquitlam (Confederation Drive area). Students currently attend at the temporary Winslow site in Coquitlam. Always verify a specific address through the SD43 school locator before relying on it.
Jason Hewlett. Verified against the B.C. Ministry of Education Student Success record for this school (school code 04343022). 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.
Citadel Middle (grades 6–8) once students return to Citadel Heights catchment; Terry Fox Secondary. 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.
Temporary: 1100 Winslow Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3J 2G3. Phone 604-941-0517.
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 Hazel Trembath Elementary 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 (181 students, 2025–2026) 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 pages, the locator page, registration, cross-catchment) all now 404 or redirect to the SD43 homepage. This same link rot is very likely present across the rest of the school-guide pages and should be swept sitewide, not just fixed on this one. 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 Hazel Trembath Elementary catchment before they hit the public market.
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