Pacific Academy, Surrey — A Home Buyer’s Field Guide
Pacific Academy is a regional private school in Surrey — families apply to it and attend from across the region, not from a fixed boundary. For home buyers, that makes it a relocation and demand factor for North Surrey and Fraser Heights housing, and a fundamentally different kind of input than the address-bound public catchment system.
This guide is factual and neutral: it sets out the verified facts about the school and explains the real-estate angle. It does not rank schools or call any school “better” than another.
The facts
- Type:
- Independent (private) Pentecostal Christian, co-ed school
- Grades:
- Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12
- Founded:
- 1985
- Address:
- 10238 168 St, Surrey
- Enrollment:
- ~1,450 students
- Operator:
- Pacific Pentecostal Education and Communication Society (an independent non-profit)
Pacific Academy was founded in 1985. It originally opened in Coquitlam with roughly 200 students, and in January 1991 it moved to its current campus — a site of about 40 acres — in Surrey.
The school runs from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12 and has an enrollment of about 1,450 students. It is operated by the Pacific Pentecostal Education and Communication Society, an independent non-profit.
On the academic side, Pacific Academy offers Advanced Placement, and it became an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School in September 2004.
The real-estate angle
A private school does not have a catchment. There is no boundary line that assigns a home to it and no address that is “in” or “out.” Families apply to Pacific Academy and attend from across the region.
For a home buyer, that changes which factor matters. With a public school, the buying input is the catchment a specific address falls into. With a private school, the input is proximity — the practical daily commute from a home to the campus at 10238 168 St in Surrey.
That distinction has a real effect on demand. Because attendance is not boundary-bound, interest in being a reasonable commute from the campus is spread across several nearby North Surrey and Fraser Heights neighbourhoods rather than concentrated on one catchment. It widens the buyer pool over a broader area instead of narrowing it to a single set of streets.
How it relates to the public picture
For families weighing Fraser Heights, the private and public options are two different inputs running side by side. The public schools are address-determined: a home’s catchment elementary and secondary are set by its address and confirmed through the Surrey School District’s official locator. Pacific Academy, being private, is proximity-driven instead. The companion guide maps the public catchments — the four elementaries and the secondary school — and explains how to confirm a catchment for a specific property before writing an offer: Fraser Heights Schools — A Home Buyer’s Catchment Guide.
What to read next
- · Fraser Heights Schools — A Home Buyer’s Catchment Guide — the address-determined public catchments and how to confirm them
- · All guides — the full library of BC home-buying references
Sources
We are not affiliated with Pacific Academy. Grade ranges, enrollment, program offerings, and admissions details can change — confirm the current details with the school directly.
- Pacific Academy: pacificacademy.net
- BC Ministry of Education — provincial school registry: studentsuccess.gov.bc.ca
- Surrey Schools / School District 36 — for the public catchment system: surreyschools.ca
