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🏫 Vancouver School Board (As of June 4)

September 2025

Closed

February 2026

Applications for secondary schools are now open.

🏫 Burnaby School District (As of Mar 27)

September 2025

Secondary Schools (Grade 8-12)

Currently open

• Alpha
• Burnaby Central
• Burnaby Mountain (Grades 8, 9, 11, 12)
• Burnaby North (Grades 8, 9)
• Burnaby South (Grades 9, 10, 11, 12)
• Byrne Creek
• Cariboo Hill (Grades 10, 11, 12)
• Moscrop (Grades 11, 12)

Waitlist available

• Burnaby Mountain (Grade 10)
• Burnaby North (Grades 10, 11, 12)
• Cariboo Hill (Grades 8, 9)
• Moscrop Secondary (Grades 8, 9, 10)

Elementary Schools (Grades K – 7)

• Armstrong Elementary
• Aubrey Elementary
• Brantford Elementary
• Capitol Hill Elementary
• Clinton Elementary
• Confederation Park Elementary
• Douglas Road Elementary
• Edmonds Community Elementary
• Forest Grove Elementary
• Gilmore Community Elementary
• Gilpin Elementary
• Glenwood Elementary
• Inman Elementary
• Lakeview Elementary
• Lochdale Community Elementary
• Lyndhurst Elementary
• Morley Elementary
• Rosser Elementary
• Second Street Community Elementary
• South Slope Elementary
• Stoney Creek Community Elementary
• Twelfth Elementary
• Windsor Elementary

February 2026

Secondary schools

Grade 8 & 9

• Byrne Creek
• Burnaby South

Grade 10 – 12

• Alpha
• Burnaby Central
• Burnaby Mountain
• Burnaby North
• Burnaby South
• Byrne Creek
• Cariboo Hill

Not Available

• Moscrop

Elementary schools

Not open at this time

🏫 Richmond School District 

• February 2025: now accepting applications
• September 2025: will be open on November 1

🏫 Coquitlam School District

🏫 Surrey School District (As of Jan 14)

September 2025

Currently, they still have availability in the majority of their schools and excellent families available to host students.

🏫 The Greater Victoria School District (As of 20 Jun)

September 2025 to June 2026

• They currently have space at Esquimalt, Lambrick Park, Spectrum and limited space at Mt Douglas.
• They are also accepting applications at all grade levels for elementary and middle school students.

February 2026 to June 2026

Semester Registration is open at all grade levels.

Short- Term Experience (3- or 4- month)

Applications are now Closed for 1st semester (September 2025)

They are accepting Short Term Applications for 2nd (February 2026).

🏫 New Westminster Schools

They are now accepting applications for January 2025, September 2025 and January 2026 for all grades. Please note that they have limited one semester space for all start dates.

🏫 Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows (As of 5 Nov)

September 2025

Academy seats at Westview are limited (please check prior to applying)

February 2025

Grade 11 seats are still available.

🏫 Langley School District

Elementary

applications are being accepted for January and February 2025

High School

24/25 school year

Feb 1, 2025 and April 1, 2025 applications are being accepted:

• RE Mountain Secondary and Walnut Grove Secondary are at school and homestay capacity and are not accepting further applications at this time.
• Aldergrove Secondary, Brookswood Secondary, Langley Fine Arts Secondary, Langley Fundamental Secondary, Langley Secondary and DW Poppy Secondary are accepting 2nd semester applications (February 1, 2025 and April 1, 2025).

25/26 School Year

RE Mountain Secondary is at capacity and is not accepting students at this time.

🏫 North Vancouver School District (As of May 28)

September 2025

Secondary schools

• Sutherland
• Windsor
• Seycove

*They will extend our application period for the September, 2025 intake until Friday, June 20, 2025.

Closed

• Handsworth Secondary
• Carson Graham Secondary

Elementary schools

Still accepting applications

February 2026

They are accepting applications for all secondary schools.

🏫 Delta School District (Updated on Jan 17)

Elementary Programs

All grades are available at most schools.

Secondary Programs

BURNSVIEW

• Semester One – Open to all students
• Full Year- Open to all students
• Semester Two – Open to all students

DELVIEW

• Semester One – Open to all students
• Full Year- Open to all students
• Semester Two – Open to all students

DELTA SECONDAY

• Semester One – Limited availability. Please inquire. Closed to German and Spanish students.
• Full Year- Some availability, but becoming limited. Closed to German and Spanish students.
• Semester Two – Open to all students

NORTH DELTA

• Semester One – Open to all students
• Full Year- Open to all students
• Semester Two – Open to all students

SANDS

• Semester One – Open to all students
• Full Year- Open to all students
• Semester Two – Open to all students

SOUTH DELTA

• Semester One – Limited availability. Please inquire. Closed to German and Spanish students.
• Full Year- Some availability, but becoming limited. Closed to German and Spanish students.
• Semester Two – Open to all students

SEAQUAM

• Semester One – Closed.
• Full Year- Closed.
• Semester Two – Open to all students

* They are full for three and four month SECONDARY students in September. 

🏫 West Vancouver Schools

Application Open

September 2025 application opens at midnight (Vancouver time) on Oct 15. (one minute after 11:59pm on Oct 14.)

🏫 Mission Public Schools (Added on Oct 2)

February 2025: limited space

🏫 Abbotsford School District (As of Feb 20)

Secondary Schools

• Yale – Full
• Abbotsford Senior – A few seats remaining
• WJ Mouat and Robert Bateman – Still available

Note: district homestay is still available for full academic year students (September 2025 – June 2026) students.

Elementary & Middle Schools

Most schools still have availability.

🏫 Vernon School District (As of Feb 4)

Vernon Secondary

• Grade 8- full
• Grade 9- limited spaces available
• Grade 10-full
• Grade 11-limited spaces available
• Grade 12-limited spaces available

WL Seaton Secondary

• Grade 8- limited spaces available
• Grade 9- limited spaces available
• Grade 10-limited spaces available
• Grade 11-nearly full
• Grade 12-limited spaces available

Kalamalka Secondary

• Grade 8- limited spaces available
• Grade 9- limited spaces available
• Grade 10-full
• Grade 11-nearly full
• Grade 12-limited spaces available

Clarence Fulton Secondary

• Grade 8- limited spaces available
• Grade 9- limited spaces available
• Grade 10-limited spaces available
• Grade 11-nearly full
• Grade 12-limited spaces available

Charles Bloom Secondary

• Space available at all grades

🏫 Chilliwack School District (As of Feb 7)

September 2025

• Ample availability for full year and 5 MONTH PROGRAMS (Semester) in the first semester of the 2025/26 School Year.

3 and 4 month program availability

Semester 1

Limited. Only two, four month seats are available at Imagine High Secondary School

Semester 2

Still available at all the schools

* Chilliwack Secondary School is at capacity for first semester and full year programs for German students. There is still availability at SSS, GWG, and Imagine as well as ample availability for second semester at all the schools.

🏫 Sea to Sky School District (As of Jan 15)

They are very close to the capacity of German students in Squamish. They do have space in Pemberton but these spots are filling quickly.

🏫 Rocky Mountain School District (As of Feb 13)

September 2025 & January 2026

* This list is for students who speak anything except German as a first language

January 2026

A lot of spaces in most schools.

September 2026

Open in all schools.

🏫 Saanich Schools (As of Feb 27)

September 2025 & February 2026

Remain OPEN at Parkland and Stelly’s Secondary School.

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