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Elementary · Maillardville · Leduc Avenue · SD43 Coquitlam School District
Updated October 2026 · Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960
A Coquitlam REALTOR®'s read on R.C. MacDonald Elementary — what the school offers, which neighbourhoods feed in, and what to know about the catchment housing in Maillardville · Leduc Avenue.
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What should you know about R.C. MacDonald Elementary?
R.C. MacDonald Elementary School — R.C. MacDonald Elementary School is an elementary school in Coquitlam, serving grades K–5 in the Maillardville · Leduc Avenue area. Maillardville K-5 — active in BC's NOIIE inquiry network. Address: 2550 Leduc Avenue, V3K 5W6. Phone 604-936-0447.
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Check whether your address is actually inside the R.C. MacDonald Elementary catchment.
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Verified school facts · SD43
School type
Elementary
Grades
K–5
District
SD43 (Coquitlam School District)
Address
2550 Leduc Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3K 5W6
Phone
Website
Administration (2025–26)
Tamara Sengotta (Principal)
Enrolment
140 students, School Year 2025–2026, across grades K–5. Confirm current-year totals with the school office.
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 R.C. MacDonald — cross-referenced against BC's public school enrolment reporting so you're not relying on a guess.
Current enrolment
140 students
2025–2026 school year
Grades served
K–5
Standard SD43 English elementary program
Enrolment by grade
School Year 2025–2026
Kindergarten and Grade 2 enrolment are not separately published in the source consulted for R.C. MacDonald — Grades 1, 3, 4, and 5 alone total 94 of the school's 140 reported students. We are not backing out Kindergarten or Grade 2 figures from that gap; confirm current enrolment by grade directly 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
R.C. MacDonald is a standard SD43 neighbourhood K-5 in Maillardville that's distinguished by its active participation in BC's Networks of Inquiry and Indigenous Education (NOIIE) — a provincial network of schools using inquiry-driven approaches to improve teaching, learning, and Indigenous education outcomes.
Programs & academic profile
Standard BC elementary curriculum.
Active participant in BC's NOIIE — an inquiry-driven school improvement network.
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.
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.
Catchment, feeders & cross-catchment
Maillardville — Leduc Avenue area.
K-entry school.
Maillard Middle.
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 R.C. MacDonald Elementary catchment in Maillardville · Leduc Avenue, 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
R. C. MacDonald Elementary is a public school in School District 43 serving grades K-5. It stands at 2550 Leduc Ave in Coquitlam, postal code V3K 5W6, and the office line is 604 936-0447. The principal is Tamara Sengotta, and the province lists the school under code 04343023.
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 maillard Middle.
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 — Leduc Avenue area.
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.
Frequently asked questions
R.C. MacDonald Elementary is a K–5 SD43 neighbourhood school in Maillardville · Leduc Avenue. A Maillardville-area K-5 that's an active participant in BC's Networks of Inquiry and Indigenous Education (NOIIE) — an inquiry-driven school improvement network. 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.
Maillardville — Leduc Avenue area. Always verify a specific address through the SD43 school locator before relying on it.
Tamara Sengotta. Verified against the B.C. Ministry of Education Student Success record for this school (school code 04343023). 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.
Maillard Middle. 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.
2550 Leduc Avenue, Coquitlam, BC V3K 5W6. Phone 604-936-0447.
Continue your Coquitlam school research
Main hub
The full SD43 schools guide for the Tri-Cities.
Hub
Guide to Coquitlam SD43 schools and catchments.
Programs
Every SD43 French Immersion entry point.
Private
Independent schools serving Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam.
Sources & methodology
School facts verified against the SD43 R.C. MacDonald 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 (140 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 links on this page were re-checked in September 2026, after SD43 relaunched its website. 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; facility, 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.
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