Middle · Maillardville · West-Central Coquitlam · SD43 Coquitlam School District
Updated July 2026 · Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960
A Coquitlam REALTOR®'s read on Maillard Middle — what the school offers, which neighbourhoods feed in, and what to know about the catchment housing in Maillardville · West-Central Coquitlam.
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What should you know about Maillard Middle Catchment Homes?
École Maillard Middle School (1300 Rochester Avenue, V3K 2X5) — 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.
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École Maillard Middle School — École Maillard Middle School is a middle school in Coquitlam, serving grades 6–8 in the Maillardville · West-Central Coquitlam area. Maillardville dual-track Early FI continuation middle — direct feed to Dr. Charles Best. Address: 1300 Rochester Avenue, V3K 2X5. Phone 604-931-3574.
Verified school facts · SD43
School type
Middle
Grades
6–8
District
SD43 (Coquitlam School District)
Address
1300 Rochester Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3K 2X5
Phone
Website
Administration (2025–26)
Steven Roos (Principal)
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
Maillard is the Maillardville-area dual-track middle school — Early French Immersion plus a standard English neighbourhood program for grades 6–8. FI students arrive from Rochester, Nestor, Panorama Heights, and Porter Street elementaries, then continue at École Dr. Charles Best Secondary for the FI Bilingual Dogwood pathway. Important note: Maillard is Early FI CONTINUATION, not Late FI entry. SD43's Late FI entry sites (grade 6 start) are Citadel Middle, Moody Middle, and Montgomery Middle.
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 Indigenous Education programming applies.
SD43 has discontinued regular bus transportation district-wide.
Catchment, feeders & cross-catchment
Maillardville and west-central Coquitlam — Rochester Avenue corridor. FI draws district-wide.
École Rochester Elementary, Nestor Elementary, École Panorama Heights Elementary, École Porter Street Elementary.
École Dr. Charles Best Secondary (FI continuation).
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 Maillard Middle catchment in Maillardville · West-Central 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
École Maillard Middle serves grades 6-8 as a public School District 43 site. Its address is 1300 Rochester Ave, Coquitlam, V3K 2X5; the school office answers on 604 931-3574. Steven Roos is the principal, and 04343081 is the school's provincial code.
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.
Programme track
SD43 lists this school as dual-track english / late fi. That means two streams run under one roof, and the stream your child enters is decided by application rather than by your address.
Living in the catchment secures a place at the school. It does not secure a place in the immersion stream — immersion is a programme of choice, allocated where space permits, and demand for it in this district reliably exceeds supply.
If the immersion stream specifically is what you are buying for, treat the catchment as necessary but not sufficient, and read the district-wide immersion picture before you commit to an address.
The pathway
Students here promote to école Dr. Charles Best Secondary (FI continuation).
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 maillardville and west-central Coquitlam — Rochester Avenue corridor. FI draws district-wide.
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 best coquitlam neighborhoods for families and cariboo coquitlam 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.
Feeder elementary schools
Lord Baden-Powell Elementary, École Nestor Elementary, École Panorama Heights Elementary and École Rochester Elementary feed into Maillard 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. 450 Joyce St, Coquitlam V3K 4G4. Office 604 936-1436. Principal Mike Parkins. Provincial school code 04343034.
SD43 lists it as english, with no immersion stream on site.
Catchment: southwest Coquitlam — Joyce Street / Brunette / Lougheed area, Maillardville-adjacent.
For the housing in that footprint, read maillardville detached and maillardville neighbourhood guide.
Grades K-5, public, School District 43. 1266 Nestor St, Coquitlam V3E 2A4. Office 604 464-9422. Principal Chris Hunter. Provincial school code 04343047.
SD43 lists it as dual-track english / early french immersion — two streams under one roof. The catchment secures a place at the school, not a place in the immersion stream, which is allocated by application.
Catchment: westwood Plateau / north Coquitlam — Nestor Street area. The FI program is district-wide via Programs of Choice.
For the housing in that footprint, read hockaday coquitlam guide and maillardville detached.
Grades K-5, public, School District 43. 1455 Johnson St, Coquitlam V3E 2T1. Office 604 944-4840. Principal Ashif Jiwa. Provincial school code 04343048.
SD43 lists it as dual-track english / early french immersion — two streams under one roof. The catchment secures a place at the school, not a place in the immersion stream, which is allocated by application.
Catchment: westwood Plateau — Johnson Street area. The FI program is district-wide via Programs of Choice.
For the housing in that footprint, read moving to westwood plateau and scott creek coquitlam guide.
Grades K-5, public, School District 43. 411 Schoolhouse St, Coquitlam V3K 4Y7. Office 604 939-4624. Principal Michelle Allen-Ciolfitto. Provincial school code 04343055.
SD43 lists it as dual-track english / early french immersion — two streams under one roof. The catchment secures a place at the school, not a place in the immersion stream, which is allocated by application.
Catchment: maillardville / west Coquitlam — Schoolhouse Street area.
For the housing in that footprint, read best coquitlam neighborhoods for families and cariboo coquitlam guide.
Frequently asked questions
Maillard Middle is an SD43 grade 6–8 middle school serving Maillardville · West-Central Coquitlam. A dual-track French Immersion / English middle school continuing Early FI from the Maillardville-side elementary feeder schools — feeds École Dr. Charles Best Secondary for the FI continuation. NOTE: Maillard is Early FI continuation, NOT Late FI entry. Late FI hosts are Citadel, Moody, and Montgomery.
Maillardville and west-central Coquitlam — Rochester Avenue corridor. FI draws district-wide. Verify a specific address through the SD43 school locator.
Steven Roos. Verified against the B.C. Ministry of Education Student Success record for this school (school code 04343081). 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.
École Rochester Elementary, Nestor Elementary, École Panorama Heights Elementary, École Porter Street Elementary.
École Dr. Charles Best Secondary (FI continuation).
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.
1300 Rochester Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3K 2X5. Phone 604-931-3574.
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 Maillard Middle 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 Maillard Middle catchment before they hit the public market.
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