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Kootenay Lake School District SD8

Nelson, British Columbia · Public · English

2026-2027 calendar Board website ↗

FSA results

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

Grade 4 Literacy
72.8%
Grade 4 Numeracy
71.4%
Grade 7 Literacy
76.5%

Good for British Columbia: SD8 places 6 of 42 districts with published results, on the mean of the assessments it sat (73.6%).

1,345 assessments written. Counts the ministry masks for privacy are left out rather than counted as zero. Source: BC Data Catalogue

Student success

How Kootenay Lake students are doing, in the district's own annual report

Read Enhancing Student Learning Report 2026 ↗

Literacy, on track or extending

Foundation Skills Assessment in grades 4 and 7, 2025-26, and the Grade 10 literacy assessment, 2024-25; about 350 to 450 students a grade

Numeracy, on track or extending

Foundation Skills Assessment in grades 4 and 7, 2025-26, and the Grade 10 numeracy assessment, 2024-25

Graduating

Five-year completion rate, Dogwood and Adult Dogwood, 2024-25, and transition straight to a BC post-secondary institution

What students say

Student Learning Survey, grades 4, 7 and 10, positive responses, 2024-25

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

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Figures and findings read from Kootenay Lake School District's Enhancing Student Learning Interim Report, September 2026 (PDF, sd8.bc.ca) , published 2026-09.

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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
Grade 10 to 11 transitions
Feeling welcome
Feeling safe and belonging
Adults who care
Five-year completion rate
Transition to post-secondary

The report's own pages

School buses and catchment areas

Operations and transportation, sd8.bc.ca ↗
Register
Every rider, every year, online by late June
Bus pass
Zonar pass scanned on and off
Winter
Main-road winter routes when snow closes side roads
Creston Operations
250-428-5329 ext. 2
Nelson Operations
250-354-4871, clerical.operations@sd8.bc.ca

Route map

All 33 routes drawn from the district's stop lists. Open the live map to pick a route and see its stops and times.

Map of Kootenay Lake 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.

Board of Education and district staff

Write to the Board: board.education@sd8.bc.ca

Trustees

Nine trustees for nine areas; the next election is October 17, 2026.

As listed on Board of Education, sd8.bc.ca

District office

811 Stanley Street, Nelson, 250-352-6681, info@sd8.bc.ca.

As listed on District Staff, sd8.bc.ca

Schools

25 total
School Students
Adam Robertson Elementary 309
Blewett Elementary School 91
Brent Kennedy Elementary 174
Canyon/Lister Elementary 127
Crawford Bay Elem-Secondary 62
Erickson Elementary 191
Hume Elementary School 210
J V Humphries Elem-Secondary 200
Jewett Elementary 11
Kootenay River Secondary 529
L V Rogers Secondary 606
Mount Sentinel Secondary 290
Redfish Elementary School 106
Rosemont Elementary School 111
Salmo Elementary School 149
Salmo Secondary 129
South Nelson Elementary 181
Trafalgar Middle School 546
W.E. Graham Community School 81
Wildflower 175
Winlaw Elementary School 95
Elev8 D.E.S.K. Provincial Online Learning School 276
Elev8 Homelinks Provincial Online Learning School 154
Reach Alternate Programs School 11
Sequoia Centre Alternate Programs School 11

Enrolment 2025-2026. Source: BC Data Catalogue