Coast Mountains Board of Education (School District No. 82)
3211 Kenney Street, Terrace BC  V8G 3E9
Phone:  250 635 4931         Toll Free:  1 800 665 6134         Fax:  250 635 4287

Coast Mountains School District (CMSD) is located in northwestern British Columbia and includes the communities of Terrace, Thornhill, Kitimat, Kitwanga, Stewart, and the Hazeltons.  The Board of Education Office is located in Terrace with Kitimat a forty-five minute drive from the office, Kitwanga one hour, the Hazeltons one and a half hours, and Stewart three and a half hours.

 Coast Mountains School District encompasses the traditional territories of three aboriginal nations:  the Haisla, the Gitksan, and the Tsimshian.  The Haisla Nation is centered in Kitimaat Village.  The Tsimshian Nation has three distinct communities in the Terrace and Thornhill areas.  The Gitksan-Wet’suwet’en Nation of the Hazelton area is made up of a large number of band communities that range from Gitanyow and Gitwangak through the Hazelton communities, and on up the Kispiox Valley.

Coast Mountains School District serves a student population of approximately 5050 students in twenty-two schools: one primary, eleven K-7 schools, one intermediate 4-7 school, two grade 8-10 junior secondary schools, two grade 8-12 secondary schools, one grade 11-12 secondary school, one K-12 school, two alternate un-graded secondary schools, and a distance education school. 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 12:32