Burnaby Central Secondary School is a public high school in Burnaby, British Columbia. It is a short distance from Burnaby City Hall and Deer Lake Park. Burnaby Central is a part of Burnaby School District 41. As of 2026, 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.
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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 (A) and separates wings B and C. It contains 52 classrooms. Other facilities include:
Art studios
Cafeteria
Braille printing room
Digital recording studio
Competition running track
Electronics lab
Drafting lab
Photography dark rooms
Computer labs (3)
Food studies kitchen (2)
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
Sam Adekugbe, soccer player
Bryce Alderson, soccer player
Glenn Anderson, ice hockey player
Marco Carducci, soccer player
Caleb Clarke
Roger Cross, actor
Alphonso Davies, soccer player
Charles Demers, Comedian, political activist, voice actor, and writer
Rob Feenie, Iron Chef winner and restaurateur
Ben Fisk, soccer player
Michael J. Fox, actor, activist, dropped out of school
Kaleigh Fratkin (born 1992), professional ice hockey player
Julia Grosso, soccer player
Kaela Hansen, soccer player
Farhan Lalji, TSN TV reporter
Patrick Lussier, film director
Kenndal McArdle, ice hockey player
Colin Percival, computer scientist
Dave Steen, decathlete, Order of Canada recipient (first Canadian to score 8,000 points)
Adam Straith, soccer player
Russell Teibert, soccer player