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Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District SD68

Nanaimo, British Columbia · Public · English

FSA results

Students at or above expectations in the Foundation Skills Assessment, 2025-2026. The British Columbia average is 73.4%.

Grade 4 Literacy
61.5%
Grade 4 Numeracy
55.3%
Grade 7 Literacy
61.7%
Grade 7 Numeracy
46.5%

Below average for British Columbia: SD68 places 36 of 42 districts with published results, on the mean of the assessments it sat (56.3%).

3,603 assessments written. Counts the ministry masks for privacy are left out rather than counted as zero. Source: BC Data Catalogue

Student success

How Nanaimo and Ladysmith students are doing, in the district's own annual report

Read Enhancing Student Learning Report 2025 ↗

Literacy, on track or extending

Foundation Skills Assessment in grades 4 and 7 and the Grade 10 literacy assessment; about 1,150 students a grade; Grade 10 runs a year behind

Numeracy, on track or extending

Foundation Skills Assessment in grades 4 and 7 and the Grade 10 numeracy assessment; Grade 10 runs a year behind

Graduating

Five-year completion rate, Dogwood and Adult Dogwood, 2023-24, and transition to a BC post-secondary institution

What students say

Student Learning Survey, grades 4, 7 and 10, positive responses

Click any figure to open its chart with every year.

What the report says

The figures as charts, every year labelled, and the report's findings, in one PDF. Show

Figures and findings read from Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District's Enhancing Student Learning Report, September 2025 (PDF, sd68.bc.ca) , published 2025-09.

Chart

The report's own pages

The results pages as the district published them. Open a page to read it at full size.

Grade 4 literacy
Grade 7 literacy
Grade 10 literacy
Grade 4 numeracy
Grade 7 numeracy
Grade 10 numeracy
Feeling welcome
Feeling safe and belonging
Adults who care
Five-year completion rate
Transition to post-secondary
Post-secondary within three years

The report's own pages

School buses and catchment areas

Transportation, sd68.bc.ca ↗
Who qualifies
Catchment school beyond 4 km (K to 3) or 4.8 km (grades 4 to 12)
Courtesy riders
If an existing route has room
Register
Every rider, every year, online before July 1; Z-Pass scanned on and off
Addresses
Home plus an alternate for custody or daycare
Contact
transportation@sd68.bc.ca, 250-741-5214

Route map

All 20 routes drawn from the district's stop lists. Open the live map to pick a route and see its stops and times.

Map of Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District school bus routes, one line per route

Stops placed with OpenStreetMap; a stop that could not be placed is left off rather than guessed. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Catchment map

The district's school map for Nanaimo, Cedar, Ladysmith and Gabriola. Open it to read at full size.

Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools map

Catchment map

Board of Education and district staff

Trustees

Nine trustees elected at large; the next election is October 17, 2026.

As listed on Board of Education, sd68.bc.ca

District office

395 Wakesiah Avenue, Nanaimo, 250-754-5521, info@sd68.bc.ca.

As listed on Contact, sd68.bc.ca

Schools

40 total
School Students
Bayview Elementary 216
Brechin Elementary 177
Career Technical Centre 91
Cedar Elementary 308
Cedar Secondary 382
Chase River Elementary 230
Cilaire Elementary 176
Cinnabar Valley Elementary 239
Departure Bay Elementary 351
Dover Bay Secondary 1,665
Fairview Elementary 414
Forest Park Elementary 374
Frank J. Ney Elementary 324
Gabriola Elementary 142
Georgia Avenue Elementary 368
Hammond Bay Elementary 405
John Barsby Secondary 860
Ladysmith Intermediate 337
Ladysmith Primary 292
Ladysmith Secondary 686
McGirr Elementary 464
Mount Benson Elementary 34
Mountain View Elementary 400
Nanaimo District Secondary 1,593
North Oyster Elementary 292
Park Avenue Elementary 265
Pauline Haarer Elementary 215
Pleasant Valley Elementary 424
Quarterway Elementary 391
Qwam Qwum Stuwixwulh Community School 131
Randerson Ridge Elementary 402
Rock City Elementary 297
Rutherford Elementary 271
Seaview Elementary 245
Syu¿én'ct Elementary School 326
Uplands Park Elementary 317
Wellington Secondary 1,095
Continuing Ed SD 68 Continuing Education School 21
Island Connected K-12 District Online Learning School 487
Learning Alternatives Alternate Programs School 272

Enrolment 2025-2026. Source: BC Data Catalogue