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King George
Templeton
West Point Grey
Academy
Notre Dame
Britannia
University
Hill
1
St Johns
Kitsilano
St Patricks
Van Tech
1
2
Lord Byng
Little Flower
Academy
Tupper
Yo r k
House
Gladstone Windermere
Prince of
Wales
St Georges
Vancouver
College
Hamber
Point Grey
Magee
John Oliver
Crofton
House
King David
Killarney
1
2
1
Top 5%
David
Thompson
Top 6-20%
Top 21-40%
Top 41-60%
Bottom 61-80%
Bottom 81-100%
2
Churchill
3
3
4
4
Figure 7.1
Provincial ranks of Westside secondary schools, 2002-06
Academy, a Catholic girls' school, are long-established neighbours in
Shaughnessy, while St. George's is a private boys' school that includes
boarders from 15 countries. Crofton House in Kerrisdale, also in the top
five percent in British Columbia, is a private girls' school dating back to the
1890s, while Vancouver College in Oakridge is an independent Catholic
school for boys founded in 1922. These older schools have reproduced an
elite way of life for decades but in response to growing demand they have
expanded in recent years and now include significant numbers of ethnic
Chinese students. In addition two new independent co-educational schools,
West Point Grey Academy and St. John's have opened in recent years on the
Westside as a result of growing demand for private education; West Point
Grey Academy has grown rapidly to 900 students in 12 years.
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The schools
have uniforms - Crofton House sports a Gordon clan dress code in memory
of its founder - and there is an anglophile sense of tradition, service, sports
and high intellectual achievement. The web site of each school emphasizes
its multi-ethnic composition, including images of ethnic Chinese students;
St. John's features slides from the Headmaster's recent recruiting trip to
Hong Kong and South Korea. The schools have effectively reconfigured
themselves for globalization.
As well as a concentration of high performing independent schools, the
Westside also includes high-achieving public schools, all but one in the top
