School Change Requests

The School Change Request Period for the 2025/26 school year opens at 8:00 AM on February 10, 2025 and closes at 4:00 PM on February 21, 2025. 

The School Change Request Period for the 2024/25 school year has closed. If you have an extenuating circumstance and would like to inquire about the possibility of a school change request for next year, please contact your current school principal to discuss further. 

Parents wanting to register their child for a school other than their in-catchment school must submit a School Change Request. Change requests are not guaranteed. 

*Designated Change Request Periods for 2025/26 School Year*

SĆIȺNEW̱ SṮEȽIṮḴEȽ Elementary School

• In-Catchment SĆIȺNEW̱ SṮEȽIṮḴEȽ Elementary School (Current kindergarten to grade 4 students only)
  • For in-catchment students of SĆIȺNEW̱ SṮEȽIṮḴEȽ Elementary School who wish to remain at their current elementary school. 
    • January 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM to January 25, 205 at 4:00 PM
  • Current in-catchment grade 5 students will automatically transition to Dunsmuir Middle School. Those students seeking a middle school outside of their in-catchment middle school can submit a school change request during the regular period from February 10, 2025 to February 21, 2025. 

David Cameron Elementary School

• Only for current grade 5 students at David Cameron Elementary School who wish to transition to Spencer Middle School for the 2025/26 school year can submit a change request from January 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM to January 25, 205 at 4:00 PM.
• All other school change requests must be submitted during the regular period from February 10, 2025 to February 21, 2025. 

Moving Within District

If you move within the district and would like to inquire about changing to your in-catchment school for your new address during the school year, please contact your child's current principal who will assist.

If you move over the summer months and have a new in-catchment school, please email info@sd62.bc.ca. Your email will be forwarded to the principal at your in-catchment school based on your new address. Transfers will be processed based on capacity and in the order that requests are received, determined by the timestamp of your email submission to the district. 

School Catchment Requests follow our Student Enrolment Priorities. Only after a school’s space and resource capabilities have been determined will school change request be considered. In most cases, students will continue at their in-catchment school.

School Change Request Process

1. Submit a School Change Request
2. Dates: February 10 - 21, 2025
   • Open to students who were force transferred to an overflow school by the district or made the choice to leave their in-catchment school and would like to return.
   • Open to students who are requesting a transfer to an out of catchment school under extenuating circumstances. Families should have conversations with their current school principal to discuss prior to submission of a school change request.
   • If you have a designated School Change Request period for SĆIȺNEW̱ SṮEȽIṮḴEȽ Elementary School or David Cameron Elementary as outlined above, please use the School Change Request button above when your designated period opens.

During the school change request period, families who have students who have been force transferred to an overflow school (placed in an overflow school due to space constraints) must submit a School Change Request (SCR) form to return to their in-catchment school.

Families that would like to request a change to an out of catchment school may also apply at this time. Priority will be given to students who have been force transferred and would like to return to their in-catchment school. 

Important Information

A critical piece you should consider in this process is district provided transportation services (if applicable to your situation).

You decide not to apply for an SCR and are currently a "force transfer" student.

• Your child will no longer be considered a “force transfer” student. By not submitting an SCR to return to your in-catchment school, you will be choosing to continue at your current school through personal choice. As a result, you will be ineligible for district provided transportation services.

If you apply for an SCR to your in-catchment school but are not successful.

• Your child will still be considered a “force transfer” and you will be eligible for district provided transportation services.

You apply for an SCR to your in-catchment school and are successful.

• You can still apply for district provided transportation services; however, transportation registration is dependent on your primary home address and whether safe walking routes have been identified by the Transportation Department.

You apply for an out of catchment school and are successful.

• You are making a personal choice for your child to attend an out of catchment school and therefore ineligible for district provided transportation services.

Definitions

In-catchment School is your designated neighbourhood school based on your home address.

Out of catchment School any school other than your designated neighbourhood school.

Overflow School when a neighbourhood school is at or over enrolment capacity, the district will designate an overflow school for additional registrations for students.

Force Transfer are students who cannot attend their in-catchment school due to space limitations. Students are placed into an overflow school at the direction of the district.

Eligible riders are considered to be those students travelling to their catchment school or students attending an educational program of choice or academy program not offered at their catchment school. Educational programs of choice are defined as:

• French Immersion
• Trades Awareness and Skills Knowledge
• Nature Kindergarten

Timelines

School Change Requests received by 4:00 p.m. on February 21, 2025 will receive one of the responses below (by phone or email) by June 1, 2025:

• Pending (capacity and space review)
• Approved
• Not approved
• Withdrawn