Burnaby North Secondary School
| Burnaby North Secondary School | |
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Burnaby North from Kensington Avenue
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| Address | |
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751 Hammarskjold Drive Burnaby, British Columbia, V5B 4A1 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 49°16′40″N 122°58′19″W / 49.27778°N 122.97194°WCoordinates: 49°16′40″N 122°58′19″W / 49.27778°N 122.97194°W |
| Information | |
| Motto | Excellence, Discovery and Service |
| Established | 1922 |
| School board | Burnaby School District 41 |
| Area trustee | Gary Wong |
| Principal | Mr. David Rawnsley |
| Enrollment | c. 1811 (Sept 2013) |
| Colour(s) | maroon, gold |
| Mascot | Viking |
| Vice principal(s) | Ms. Dianne Carr Mr. Chris Lekakis |
| Website | north |
Burnaby North Secondary School is a secondary school in British Columbia, Canada. It encompasses two buildings at 751 Hammarskjold Drive in Burnaby. Around 2000 students from grades 8 to 12 attend the school. A statue of a Viking head, the mascot of the school's sports teams, stands in front of the buildings. Burnaby North sits in Kensington Park, providing room for the school's ice rink, golf pitch and putt, outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, golf driving range, baseball diamonds and numerous outdoor fields.
Burnaby North was established in 1922 with around 50 students. Before moving to its present site, it was housed on Willingdon Ave, which later became Burnaby Heights Junior Secondary, when it moved to the Hammarksjold location, which was built by Coyne and Ratcliffe Construction and completed in 1962. Later on, Kensington Junior Secondary School (Crusaders) and Burnaby North Senior Secondary School (Vikings) were merged as one.
The project to merge "Kensington Jr" and "Burnaby North Sr" into "Burnaby North Secondary" began in the 1981/1982 school year. The objective was to see if money could be saved by sharing the resources and staff between the two schools. The former Kensington was referred as the "South Building" and Burnaby North Sr. was referred to as the "North Building". A wheelchair access elevator was added in 1983 to the North Building's east entrance.
To accommodate the merged schools, two connections were built. A level sheltered walkway was constructed to connect the ground-level south-facing entrance of the North building to the second floor of the southwestern entrance of the South building, and a wooden staircase was built on a hill to provide access from the North building's east entrance to the South building's ground-level north entrance. The latter was replaced by a sheltered walkway that had a more gradual slope to accommodate accessibility.
In 2010, the school was named Canada's Greenest School.
Burnaby North is a highly academic school which enrolls a population of approximately 2000 students in grades 8 through grade 12 and is expected to grow in the upcoming years. The student body is composed of students from many ethnic backgrounds, although over 80 percent of students are of East-Asian descent. The graduating class consists of approximately 450 to 500 students, many of whom are offered scholarships to attend well-known universities. Ivy League admission rates are very high compared to other schools in Canada. In each of the past 4 years, Burnaby North graduates have won more than a million dollars in scholarship money annually (the graduates of 2008 were offered a total of 1.7 million dollars).
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