Burnaby Central Secondary School is a public high school in
Burnaby
Burnaby is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the centre of the Burrard Peninsula, it neighbours the City of Vancouver to the west, the District of North Vancouver across the confluence of the Burrard In ...
,
British Columbia
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. It is located across from Burnaby City Hall and is adjacent to
Deer Lake Park. Burnaby Central is a part of
Burnaby School District 41. As of 2015, there are more than 1,400 students attending the school. Classes at Burnaby Central usually follow the semester system.
This new school building was constructed where the previous school's outdoor field was located. Construction began on a seismically sound school building in 2009 due to the Seismic Mitigation Program (SMP), a seismic upgrading program. Burnaby Central Secondary School's new campus opened in September 2011.
Facilities
Burnaby Central Secondary has three floors and three wings. The student commons, a double height high ceiling atrium, sits in the middle of the central wing and separates wings A and C. It contains 52 classrooms. Other facilities include:
* Art studios
*Cafeteria
*Digital recording studio
*Competition running track
*Electronics lab
*Drafting lab
*Photography dark rooms
*Computer labs
* Teaching kitchen
* Gymnasiums (2)
* Textiles classroom
* Music rooms
* Wrestling room
* Weight room
* Theatre
* Dance studio
* Home economic labs
* Library
* Science labs
* Auto mechanics shop
* Woodwork shop
* Conference centre
* Learning centre
Notable alumni
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Sam Adekugbe
Samuel Ayomide Adekugbe (born January 16, 1995) is a professional soccer player who plays as a left-back for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Born in England, he represents the Canada national team.
Club career Vancouver Whiteca ...
, soccer player
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Bryce Alderson, soccer player
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Glenn Anderson
Glenn Chris Anderson (born October 2, 1960) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues. Anders ...
, ice hockey player
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Marco Carducci
Marco Christian Carducci (born September 24, 1996) is a Canadian professional association football, soccer player who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Canadian Premier League club Cavalry FC and Canada men's national s ...
, soccer player
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Caleb Clarke
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Roger Cross
Roger Cross (born October 19, 1969) is a Jamaican-Canadian actor who has made numerous appearances in several films and television series, mostly on productions shot in Canada. He is known for his work as Curtis Manning on '' 24'' (2005–2007 ...
, actor
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Alphonso Davies
Alphonso Boyle Davies (born November 2, 2000) is a professional soccer player who plays as a left-back for club Bayern Munich and captains the Canada national team. Regarded as one of the best full-backs in the world, Davies has earned the nic ...
, soccer player
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Rob Feenie, ''Iron Chef'' winner and restaurateur
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Ben Fisk
Benjamin Anthony Fisk-Routledge (born February 4, 1993) is a Canadian retired professional soccer player who played as a left winger.
Club career Vancouver Whitecaps
Fisk played for a host of local clubs before joining Vancouver Whitecaps FC's ...
, soccer player
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Michael J. Fox
Michael Andrew Fox (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian and American actor and activist. Beginning his career as a child actor in the 1970s, he rose to prominence portraying Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom ...
, actor, activist, dropped out of school
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Kaleigh Fratkin (born 1992), professional ice hockey player
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Julia Grosso
Julia Angela Grosso (born August 29, 2000) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Chicago Stars FC and the Canada women's national team. She attained international pro ...
, soccer player
*
Farhan Lalji
Farhan Lalji is a Vancouver-based sports reporter and the Vancouver Bureau Reporter for The Sports Network, TSN's SportsCentre. He previously anchored ''SportsCentre, SportsDesk'' between 1997 and 2000.
Career
Lalji joined TSN in 1997 as an a ...
, TSN TV reporter
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Patrick Lussier
Patrick Lussier is a Canadian-American filmmaker and editor.
Career
Lussier was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
He was nominated at the Annual Gemini Awards for Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series for ''Adrift'' in 1994 an ...
, film director
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Kenndal McArdle, ice hockey player
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Colin Percival
Colin A. Percival (born 1980) is a Canadian computer scientist and computer security researcher. He completed his undergraduate education at Simon Fraser University and a doctorate at the University of Oxford. While at university he joined the F ...
, computer scientist
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Dave Steen, decathlete, Order of Canada recipient (first Canadian to score 8,000 points)
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Adam Straith, soccer player
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Russell Teibert
Russell James Teibert (born December 22, 1992) is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played his entire career for Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
Club career
Youth and amateur
Teibert attended St. Paul High School (Ontario) in Niagara F ...
, soccer player
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Dale Walters, retired Olympic boxer
References
External links
School website
High schools in Burnaby
Educational institutions established in 1958
1958 establishments in British Columbia
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