Schools in Langley City: Which School, Programs, Capacity and Childcare

Every Langley City address belongs to a public elementary school, and the whole system is run by School District 35, not by the City. Six elementary schools and one middle school are inside the City boundary. The high schools are not: most City teens go to Langley Secondary in the Township’s Murrayville, and Alice Brown families go to Brookswood Secondary. Before you commit to a home for a particular school, put the address into the district’s school locator. The City’s six neighbourhood names are not school catchments.

The schools, in one table

Which school will my child attend?

Start with the district’s locator, then confirm by phone (604-534-7891) if the result is unclear or you live near an edge. The district’s June 2024 long-range plan records catchment changes affecting Blacklock, Douglas Park, Nicomekl and Simonds, including a Simonds catchment extension north of the river. So an old map or a neighbour’s memory may be out of date, and neither a listing’s “Eagle Heights” label nor the City’s neighbourhood map proves which school a home is in.

Is there room? Capacity, portables and the new additions

There isn’t a single, current, published list of enrolment against capacity for these schools, so we won’t make one up. What we can date:

• Nicomekl Elementary: a 200-seat addition opened in September 2025.
• Langley Secondary: a 300-seat, 12-classroom addition opened in September 2026.
• H.D. Stafford Middle: its own page says about 775 students in January 2026. The district’s June 2024 plan listed a capacity of 800 and two portables. Those figures are from different dates, so don’t treat them as today’s occupancy.
• Elsewhere: the 2024 plan recorded no portables at Alice Brown and one instructional portable at Douglas Park, and noted that some portables at Blacklock were used for childcare and Indigenous-program space rather than ordinary classrooms. That plan is more than two years old.

For current numbers, ask the school or the district. We haven’t found a new City school with a confirmed construction date.

Choice programs

• Montessori: Uplands Elementary, K to 6, in its own stream.
• Fine arts: Blacklock Fine Arts Elementary.
• Blended and online: U-Connect, at the Simonds campus, K to 12.
• French immersion: the district lists Belmont and James Kennedy for early immersion and Alex Hope and Noel Booth for late; Brookswood Secondary carries the program into high school. All are outside the City. See French immersion in Langley.
• Other district options: Langley Fundamental Elementary (K to 5, 21789 50 Avenue) and Langley Fundamental Middle/Secondary (6 to 12, 21250 42 Avenue), both in the Township, are choice schools. Admission rules vary, so read the district’s pages first.

Independent schools nearby

Ask each school about admission, fees and spaces; we haven’t compared them. See also our independent schools directory.

Preschool, StrongStart and childcare

• Douglas Recreation and Child Care Centre (20550 Douglas Crescent) reopened on 5 June 2026 with 75 licensed childcare spaces, run in partnership with the YMCA. Ask the operator about openings.
• Cookie Monster Preschool, a City-run licensed preschool for ages three and four, is at the Douglas centre. Registration for 2026-27 is on the City’s preschool page.
• StrongStart at Simonds (20190 48 Avenue) is free, runs weekday mornings, and children come with a parent or caregiver.
• Fraser Health publishes a list of licensed childcare facilities. A licence is not a vacancy.

More options are on our preschools and childcare page.

Walking and cycling to school

The schools give you small walking clusters: Douglas Park school and park together, Blacklock beside City Park, Simonds at 48 Avenue, Alice Brown at 44 Avenue and Uplands at 207A Street. But a short distance on a map isn’t always a short walk, especially where a catchment crosses the river. Check the assigned school first, then walk the route at drop-off time. The City says the Langley Bypass improvements will make walking and cycling safer for Langley Secondary students. To report a missing sidewalk or a crossing problem, use the City’s service request portal and tell the school.

After high school

Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Langley campus is at 20901 Langley Bypass, inside the City (see KPU Langley); Trinity Western University is just over the boundary in the Township (see TWU).

School information and reports

The Ministry’s school reports give each school’s published data. Each school also has an Action Plan for Learning on the district site. The Fraser Institute publishes its own report cards using its own method; we don’t rank schools, and a report card should be read as one outside view alongside a school visit.

For the whole district, including registration steps, see our Langley-wide schools guide and the school district page. The neighbourhood guides (Douglas, Alice Brown and the others) say which school sits nearest, and the overview puts it all in context.