Top 5 Best Elementary Schools in Langley BC (2026)

Every Langley home is assigned an elementary, middle, and secondary catchment by SD35. You can look up any address on the district catchment map at sd35.bc.ca. Catchments can change when new schools open, so verify before you remove subjects on a purchase.

Sometimes. You register at your catchment school, get a cross-boundary form signed by that school's principal, and submit it to the principal of the school you want. SD35 says decisions are generally not made before June 15 and can be accepted, denied or deferred on or before September 15, so approval is never guaranteed and buying in the catchment is the most reliable route in.

Annually, though the timing moves around. The report card uses Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) results from completed school years. The 2025 BC elementary edition came out in November 2025 and the 2026 edition came out on September 3, 2026. Either way, a ranking is about school years that have already ended.

It can matter to family buyers, but this guide doesn't have sale-price data that isolates a school's effect, so I wouldn't count on a ranking to move a home's value. Treat the catchment as one factor alongside price, commute and the home itself.

St. Catherines and Credo Christian are two independent schools in the table above. This guide focuses on public schools because catchments only apply to public schools. If private is on the table, tuition, transport, and proximity become the buying criteria instead.

Walnut Grove has two schools on this list, Alex Hope and Gordon Greenwood. Willoughby has Lynn Fripps, Aldergrove has Coghlan Fundamental, and Brookswood has Alice Brown. The "best" neighbourhood depends on whether you want academics, structure, or community feel.

Go to sd35.bc.ca/catchment-maps and use the district's catchment maps to find the school for the address. Do this before you write an offer, and confirm the result with the district.

No. Of the 5 schools here, only Alex Hope offers Late French Immersion (Grade 6 entry; Noel Booth is the other SD35 school that does). Early French Immersion (Kindergarten entry) is offered at Belmont and James Kennedy, which are not on this list. Immersion is applied for through SD35's choice-program process, so plan around that and not general rankings.

There isn't a Langley-only ranking, but every Langley school sits inside the province-wide Fraser Institute table, and the 37 local ones are listed above. In the current 2026 edition, St Catherines is the highest-rated at 10.0 out of 10 (rank 1 of 1032), followed by Credo Christian at 9.2 and Alex Hope at 7.9. Alex Hope is the highest-rated public school of the 37.

The current one is the 2026 edition, published in September 2026, which rates 1032 BC elementary schools out of 10. The 2025 edition came out in November 2025 and is now out of date. You can get the full table free from the Fraser Institute, or look up 1 school at compareschoolrankings.org.

Willoughby is rated 6.9 out of 10, rank 273 of 1032, with a 5-year average of 6.8, so it has been steady. It serves one of the fastest-growing parts of Langley, which is worth weighing: rapid catchment growth tends to mean portables and boundary reviews before it means a better score. If you're buying in Willoughby, ask the district where the boundary is expected to sit in 3 years, not just where it sits today.

Langley Fundamental is rated 6.6 out of 10, rank 347 of 1032, with a 5-year average of 6.8. It's a district-wide fundamental program rather than a catchment school, so buying nearby doesn't get you in. Entry is by application, and that's the thing to plan around, not the address.

Fort Langley Elementary is rated 5.0 out of 10, rank 738 of 1032, against a 5-year average of 4.7, so it's trending the right way. People rarely buy in Fort Langley for the school score though. They buy for the village, and they pay a premium for it. If the school number is your deciding factor, your money goes further in Walnut Grove or Murrayville.

In the current edition it's Noel Booth at 2.3 out of 10, rank 1006 of 1032, followed by Simonds at 2.8. I'd be careful what you do with that. A low FSA score can reflect the intake a school serves as much as the teaching inside it. It's a reason to go and visit, not a reason to cross a neighbourhood off.

For a regular catchment school, yes in practice. SD35 says cross-boundary requests are not guaranteed and are generally decided after June 15. The exceptions are choice programs like Langley Fundamental, Coghlan Fundamental and French Immersion, where entry is by application through SD35 and the address is irrelevant. Confirm the catchment with the district for the exact house before you write an offer, not the street.