Delbrook Senior Secondary School
| Delbrook Senior Secondary | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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600 West Queens Road North Vancouver, British Columbia Canada |
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| Coordinates | 49°20′14″N 123°5′11″W / 49.33722°N 123.08639°WCoordinates: 49°20′14″N 123°5′11″W / 49.33722°N 123.08639°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public, high school |
| Founded | 1957-1977 |
| School board | School District 44 North Vancouver |
| Grades | 8-12 |
| Colour(s) | light blue, dark blue |
| Team name | Hilltoppers |
| Feeder schools |
Balmoral Junior Secondary Highlands Elementary Carisbrooke Elementary Braemar Elementary |
Delbrook Senior Secondary was a public high school from 1957 to 1977 in the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, part of School District 44 North Vancouver.
Delbrook opened in 1957 as only the second secondary school in North Vancouver (District or City), joining North Vancouver High School which itself opened in 1910. Delbrook was named for the area and avenue north of Westview in the city and district, east of Mosquito Creek and west of Lonsdale. Approximately 100 students from the graduating class of 1958 were moved from North Vancouver Secondary to form the first graduating class.
Its catchment area was bounded in this manner: from the North Shore mountains directly south along Lonsdale Avenue to 29th Street, then east to St. George's Road. Then south to Highway #1, then west to Mosquito Creek, again south to the top of the hill on Edgemont Blvd. north of 21st Street where it ran west again above 21st Street, to turn north again back to Highway #1 to include all houses on the west and east sides of Edgemont south of the highway. The area was then bounded by a line going west along Highway #1 to MacKay Creek, where it turned north along the creek to a western-line north of all property along Woods Drive to the Capilano River. Then north along the river, turned east north of Capilano Crescent and again along the middle of Ridgewood Drive to MacKay Creek, where it turned north along the creek to Emsley Creek, where it connected with the corner of Sunnycrest Drive and Highlands Blvd. It continued east between Wentworth Avenue on the south and Sunnycrest on the north to Mosquito Creek, where it finally followed the creek north back into the North Shore mountains.
The catchment area boundaries in the north Lonsdale area changed with time. According to Rosemary Redfield (née Gagne) during the 1964-65 school year the catchment area extended at least as far east as St. Mary's Street.
Citing district-wide declining enrolment throughout the 1970s, the North Vancouver School Board planned to phase out Delbrook by June 1979. However, on January 28, 1977, a fire started in the lower section of the school doing $2M damage. Students completed the 1977 year at nearby Balmoral Junior Secondary, but retained their separate school identity and classes by going in shifts. In June Delbrook as an institution was formally closed two years earlier than proposed.
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