Secondary · NE Port Coquitlam · French Immersion + Hockey Academy
Updated September 2026 · Craig Johnston, REALTOR® V99960
A Coquitlam REALTOR®'s read on Riverside Secondary — Port Coquitlam's French Immersion continuation hub and home to a Hockey Academy, Culinary Arts ACE-IT, Musical Theatre, and a deep specialty-electives roster.
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What should you know about École Riverside Secondary?
École Riverside Secondary School — École Riverside Secondary School is a secondary school in Port Coquitlam, serving grades 9–12 in the Citadel Heights · Riverwood · NE Port Coquitlam area. PoCo's French Immersion secondary + Hockey Academy. Address: 2215 Reeve Street, V3C 6K8. Phone 604-941-6053.
Verify your exact address
Check whether your address is actually inside the Riverside Secondary 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
Secondary
Grades
9–12
District
SD43 (Coquitlam School District)
Address
2215 Reeve Street, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 6K8
Phone
Website
Administration (2025–26)
Confirm with the SD43 2025–26 administrators listing. (Principal)
VP: Confirm current VP roster with the school office.
Enrolment
Confirm current-year enrolment with the school office.
School hours
Confirm the current year's bell schedule directly with the school at 604-941-6053.
Local representation
School Trustee: SD43 Board of Education contact → · MLA: Port Coquitlam
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 Riverside Secondary — drawn from a published third-party school-data platform's per-grade profile for this school, so you're not relying on a guess.
Current enrolment
1,403 students
2025–2026 school year
Grades served
9–12
French Immersion continuation hub
Enrolment by grade
School Year 2025–2026
Honest gap: the four grade-level figures above (301 + 324 + 375 + 342 = 1,342) were read directly from the school's published enrolment profile, but they do not sum to the same source's reported current enrolment of 1,403 — a 61-student difference the platform itself doesn't reconcile. Rather than estimate or adjust either number to make them match, we're publishing both exactly as published.
Enrolment sourced from School Guide's published school-data profile for Riverside Secondary (schoolguide.vtco.app), retrieved September 2026 (School Year 2025–2026).
What this school is best known for
Riverside is unusually program-rich for a single SD43 secondary. The French Immersion stream continues from PoCo-side elementaries and middle schools (Pitt River, Kwayhquitlum), awarding a Bilingual Graduation Certificate alongside the Dogwood — FI graduates can write the international DELF exam. On top of FI, Riverside hosts a Hockey Academy, Culinary Arts ACE-IT, Musical Theatre, CISCO Networking, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Film and Television, 3D Animation, and Automotive Technology programs.
Programs & academic profile
Bilingual Dogwood graduation pathway. Graduates are eligible to write the international DELF exam.
On-ice / off-ice / classroom hockey academy.
Accelerated Credit Enrollment in Industry Training — Level I certification while still in high school.
Senior performing arts pathway.
Full BC graduation pathway with Honours options.
CISCO Networking, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Film and Television, 3D Animation, Automotive Technology.
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
Northern Port Coquitlam — Citadel Heights, Riverwood, parts of Burke Mountain-adjacent PoCo. The French Immersion stream draws district-wide.
École Pitt River Middle (FI), École Kwayhquitlum Middle, Minnekhada Middle.
Post-secondary — university, college, trades.
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.
Extracurriculars · sports · clubs
Programs change year to year. Confirm the current season's club and sport list on the school's Programs / Clubs page.
Inside the catchment · housing read
Inside the Riverside Secondary catchment in Citadel Heights · Riverwood · NE Port 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.
Frequently asked questions
Riverside Secondary is an SD43 grade 9–12 secondary school. One of two SD43 secondary French Immersion continuation hubs — Bilingual Dogwood graduates are eligible to write the international DELF exam. Also home to a Hockey Academy, Culinary Arts ACE-IT pathway, and Musical Theatre.
One of two SD43 secondary French Immersion continuation hubs — Bilingual Dogwood graduates are eligible to write the international DELF exam. Also home to a Hockey Academy, Culinary Arts ACE-IT pathway, and Musical Theatre.
Northern Port Coquitlam — Citadel Heights, Riverwood, parts of Burke Mountain-adjacent PoCo. The French Immersion stream draws district-wide. Verify a specific address through the SD43 school locator.
Confirm with the SD43 2025–26 administrators listing..
École Pitt River Middle (FI), École Kwayhquitlum Middle, Minnekhada Middle.
Yes — through the SD43 cross-catchment / school-of-choice process when space permits. Placement is by lottery with in-district and sibling priority.
No. SD43 has discontinued regular bus transportation district-wide.
Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12.
2215 Reeve Street, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 6K8. Phone 604-941-6053.
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 Riverside Secondary 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. 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.
Enrolment (1,403 students, 2025–2026; by grade: Grade 9 – 301, Grade 10 – 324, Grade 11 – 375, Grade 12 – 342 — these four figures sum to 1,342, a 61-student gap against the platform's reported total that we disclose rather than paper over) and the Indigenous Education Support and SD43 International Student Program listings were verified directly against Riverside Secondary's published profile on the School Guide school-data platform (schoolguide.vtco.app), 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.
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