Burnaby Central Secondary School
Burnaby Central Secondary School is a public high school in Burnaby, British Columbia. It is located across from Burnaby City Hall and is adjacent to Deer Lake Park. Burnaby Central is a part of Burnaby School District 41. As of 2015, there are more than 1,400 students attending the school. Classes at Burnaby Central usually follow the semester system.
This new school building was constructed where the previous school's outdoor field was located. Construction began on a seismically sound school building in 2009 due to the Seismic Mitigation Program (SMP), a seismic upgrading program. Burnaby Central Secondary School's new campus opened in September 2011.
Facilities
Burnaby Central Secondary has three floors and three wings. The student commons, a double height high ceiling atrium, sits in the middle of the central wing and separates wings A and C. It contains 52 classrooms. Other facilities include:
- Art studios
- Cafeteria
- Digital recording studio
- Competition running track
- Electronics lab
- Drafting lab
- Photography dark rooms
- Computer labs
- Teaching kitchen
- Gymnasiums (2)
- Textiles classroom
- Music rooms
- Wrestling room
- Weight room
- Theatre
- Dance studio
- Home economic labs
- Library
- Science labs
- Auto mechanics shop
- Woodwork shop
- Conference centre
- Learning centre
Notable alumni
- Sam Adekugbe, soccer player
- Bryce Alderson, soccer player
- Glenn Anderson, ice hockey player
- Marco Carducci, soccer player
- Caleb Clarke
- Roger Cross, actor
- Alphonso Davies, soccer player
- Rob Feenie, Iron Chef winner and restaurateur
- Ben Fisk, soccer player
- Michael J. Fox, actor, activist, dropped out of school
- Kaleigh Fratkin (born 1992), professional ice hockey player
- Julia Grosso, soccer player
- Farhan Lalji, TSN TV reporter
- Patrick Lussier, film director
- Kenndal McArdle, ice hockey player
- Colin Percival, computer scientist
- Dave Steen, decathlete, Order of Canada recipient (first Canadian to score 8,000 points)
- Adam Straith, soccer player
- Russell Teibert, soccer player
- Dale Walters, retired Olympic boxer
References
- ^ "Burnaby Central Secondary". Burnaby Board of Education, School District 41. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
- ^ "Seismic Mitigation Program". gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
- ^ "Burnaby Central Secondary - Burnaby Schools - School District 41, Burnaby, BC, Canada". Burnaby Schools. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ^ "School Map | Burnaby Central Secondary School". central.burnabyschools.ca. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
External links
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