Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0The nearest high school to Hope is 0.8 km away
The town’s own schools, within 3 km, are 3 elementary schools and 3 alternative or adult schools. Of the 3 with results, 3 sit in the lower two fifths in British Columbia.
High schools within reach of Hope
Secondary and all-grade schools within 15 km, by distance.
Within 15 km of the town there is no secondary school at all.
How Hope’s schools do on BC’s assessments
The Foundation Skills Assessment in Grades 4 and 7 and first-time graduation: each school against every school in BC.
Its School Grade is D−: it compares these results with the other towns of the province.
The area’s schools by fifth of the province
Each school’s band is the average of its measures’ fifths. The mark shows an even fifth of the area’s schools.
| Measure | Schools | Middle here | British Columbia |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 literacy (FSA score) | 1 | 423 | 468 |
| Grade 4 numeracy (FSA score) | 1 | 422 | 472 |
| Grade 7 literacy (FSA score) | 2 | 380 | 467 |
| Grade 7 numeracy (FSA score) | 2 | 343 | 454 |
| First-time Grade 12 graduation | 1 | 78% | 91% |
Furthest from the provincial middle is Grade 7 numeracy: 343 here, against 454 in British Columbia. 0 measures above the provincial middle, 5 below, out of 5.
Every school’s results (3)
| School | Measure | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Coquihalla ElementaryElementary | G4 literacy 423 · G4 numeracy 422 | Bottom fifth |
| Silver Creek ElementaryElementary | G4 literacy no data · G4 numeracy no data · G7 literacy 396 · G7 numeracy 315 | Bottom fifth |
| Spirit of Hope SecondaryElementary | G7 literacy 365 · G7 numeracy 371 · Graduation 78% | Bottom fifth |
BC Ministry of Education and Child Care: FSA 2021/22 to 2025/26 (the latest year with a value) and first-time Grade 12 graduation; masked where groups are small; resident students only. Open Government Licence – British Columbia.
Where the 6 schools in and around Hope are
Each pin is a school, coloured by the system that runs it, sized by its students where the province publishes them.
Points from the provincial lists.
Schooling in English and French around Hope
Each school by its language of instruction, with the share in British Columbia marked.
The mark on each bar is the share of schools in British Columbia.
None of them teaches in French.
Section 23 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives French-speaking parents the right to French-language schooling for their children, through the French-language boards.
Who runs Hope’s schools
Each level’s schools by system: English and French public boards, independent and other schools.
One system runs them: every one English public.
The provincial school lists: each school’s board, language and Catholic or public status.
How children get a place in Hope
The neighbourhood school
Ask the board first. It holds the enrolment list and points each street to its own school; out-of-area requests go ahead only with space to spare.
The provinces’ education acts and the boards’ own admission policies; check with the board for a given address.
The 6 schools in and around Hope
Alternative, adult and other schools around Hope
Besides the elementary and high schools: adult and continuing education at Fraser Cascade Continuing Education; online learning through Fraser-Cascade Open Learning; alternative programs at Two Rivers Education Centre. Their cards ↑
The kinds as the provincial lists give them (alternative, adult and continuing education, online, provincial schools).
Towns its size in British Columbia
Similar-sized towns and their schools within 3 km, by population.
| Town | Population | Schools | French | Nearest secondary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Lake | 11,462 | 12 | 0 | 0.6 km |
| … | ||||
| Electoral Area B (Lazo North), Comox Valley | 7,830 | 21 | 1 | 3.7 km |
| Electoral Area A, Nanaimo | 7,825 | 7 | 0 | 1.9 km |
| Lochdale | 7,463 | 36 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Merritt | 7,190 | 8 | 0 | 0.5 km |
| Hope | 7,183 | 6 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Fairwinds | 7,125 | 3 | 0 | 13 km |
| Kent | 7,093 | 6 | 0 | 0.8 km |
| Fernie | 7,086 | 5 | 1 | 23 km |
| Electoral Area C, East Kootenay | 7,006 | 12 | 0 | 4.6 km |
| … | ||||
| Invermere | 4,305 | 6 | 0 | 0.5 km |
59 out of 90 comparable towns have more schools. 20 of 91 have a school teaching in French.
Populations from Statistics Canada; schools from the provincial lists, in or within 3 km of each town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Which schools count. Every school inside Hope’s outline or within 3 km of it, the rule used across the site.
- The kinds of school. Where a province publishes grades, the card gives them; elementary and secondary follow those grades.
- What isn’t here. No ratings by inspectors, no enrolment trend: neither is published school by school.
- Bands, not ranks. FSA scores and first-time graduation are placed by fifths among BC’s schools; international fee-paying students aren’t counted.
- The year. The 2025/26 list.
- Boards and systems. The province’s public schools are run by districts in English and a French-language board; independents run themselves.
Questions about schools in Hope
Is there a French-language school in Hope?
Not in or within 3 km of Hope; the French-language board can name the nearest.
How many schools are there in Hope?
All 6 sit within the town’s own boundary.
How do I get a place at a school in Hope?
Ask the board which school serves your street, then register through it.
Sources: BC Ministry of Education and Child Care, K-12 school list 2025/26 (Open Government Licence – British Columbia) · map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).