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Middle · Westwood Plateau / Eagle Ridge corridor · SD43 Coquitlam
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What should you know about École Maple Creek Middle School catchment?
A Coquitlam REALTOR®'s straight read on what it means to live inside the Maple Creek catchment — what the school actually offers, what the housing looks like, and how to buy into it without paying for the wrong block. Craig Johnston, Top 1% Team — Greater Vancouver REALTORS®, 2023–2025 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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Check whether your address is actually inside the École Maple Creek Middle School 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.
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Verified school facts · SD43
School type
Middle
Address
3700 Hastings Street, Coquitlam, BC V3B 5K7
Grades
6–8
District
SD43 (Coquitlam School District)
Programs
Dual track — English program AND French Immersion
Local representation
School Trustee: SD43 Board of Education contact → · MLA: Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
Verified against the SD43 school page. Catchment boundaries are set by SD43 and can change — confirm any specific address with the SD43 catchment finder before relying on it.
Enrolment snapshot
Real, sourced enrolment figures for Maple Creek — cross-referenced against BC's public school enrolment reporting so you're not relying on a guess.
Current enrolment
632 students
2025–2026 school year
Grades served
6–8
Dual track — English + French Immersion
Enrolment by grade
School Year 2025–2026
The per-grade figures above (196 + 214 + 213 = 623) total slightly lower than Maple Creek's reported current enrolment of 632 in the same source — that discrepancy is not resolved in the data reviewed and is disclosed here rather than adjusted. Cross-check with the school office before relying on any specific number for planning purposes.
Enrolment cross-referenced against publicly reported BC K–12 school enrolment data for SD43, retrieved September 2026 (School Year 2025–2026).
Programs & academic profile
Grade 6–8 continuation site for students who began Early French Immersion in Kindergarten — part of SD43's K–12 Early French Immersion continuum, with roughly 80% French-language instruction at this level.
Standard BC middle-school curriculum for Maple Creek Middle students not in the French Immersion stream.
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.
Maple Creek catchment · Housing read
Westwood Plateau, Eagle Ridge. The Maple Creek catchment buyer profile is shaped by a single deciding factor: families who have already decided their kids will attend this school and are buying around that decision.
That changes how the catchment trades. Inventory inside the Maple Creek catchment moves at a different rhythm than otherwise-comparable inventory just outside the boundary. Same lot size, same year built, same condition — different price. The school catchment is the difference, and a catchment-aware Coquitlam REALTOR® can save you from overpaying or, on the seller side, can make sure you capture the catchment premium that's actually there.
School catchment boundaries are determined by the Coquitlam School District (SD43), not by the City of Coquitlam. They can be redrawn — though typically with at least one school year of notice.
Use the SD43 catchment finder for any specific address you are seriously considering. Boundary lines run down individual streets and can put one side of a road in this catchment and the opposite side in the next one over.
SD43 does allow cross-catchment registration when space permits, but it is not guaranteed. Buying inside the catchment is the only way to lock in placement. SD43 cross-catchment policy →
Feeder elementary schools
Pinetree Way Elementary and Ranch Park Elementary feed into Maple Creek 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. 1420 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam V3C 6A3. Office 604 945-7011. Principal Leanne Kemp. Provincial school code 04343050.
SD43 lists it as english, with no immersion stream on site.
Catchment: town Centre Coquitlam — Pinetree Way corridor between Lougheed Highway and David Avenue.
For the housing in that footprint, read coquitlam condos for sale and coquitlam town centre condos.
Grades K-5, public, School District 43. 2701 Spuraway Ave, Coquitlam V3C 2C4. Office 604 464-6684. Principal Kelly Zimmer. Provincial school code 04343054.
SD43 lists it as english, with no immersion stream on site.
Catchment: east Coquitlam — Ranch Park / Mundy Park / Spuraway Avenue area.
For the housing in that footprint, read ranch park coquitlam guide and ranch park detached.
Continue your Coquitlam school research
Hub
The full Coquitlam SD43 schools guide.
Programs
Every Coquitlam school with French Immersion programming.
Neighbourhood
Schools serving the Burke Mountain build-out.
Neighbourhood
Schools serving Westwood Plateau and surrounding pockets.
A 47-year Coquitlam resident and licensed REALTOR®, Craig knows the catchment streets, the boundary risks, and the homes that come up inside the Maple Creek catchment before they hit the public market.
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Thinking about the move, not just the school?
If you're weighing a move into this catchment, the hard part usually isn't the school — it's the timing and the tax math: when to sell your current home, how the property-transfer-tax works on the next one, and how to buy into the right catchment without overpaying. That's the work I focus on across the Tri-Cities. Start with the move-up guide, then get a no-obligation read on what your current home could sell for today.