Which Walnut Grove enclaves are in the Alex Hope Elementary catchment?
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Direct answer
The Langley School District does not publish this catchment as a list of neighbourhoods, so any such list you find in a listing or a guide is a guess. It is drawn as a boundary on a map, it is decided address by address, and it moves. Alex Hope Elementary is at 21150 85 Avenue, a kindergarten-to-grade-seven school of roughly 560 students. The district publishes a School Locator that takes a civic address and returns the catchment school, plus the same boundaries as downloadable maps, and it says plainly that the Locator is the authoritative answer rather than proximity. Two things make that lookup worth doing rather than assuming. Walnut Grove is served by several elementaries whose boundaries interlock, James Kennedy at 9060 212 Street and Topham at 21555 91 Avenue among them, so two houses a block apart can feed different schools. And a catchment is not an attribute of the property. Langley has been redrawing boundaries steadily as new schools open, and the package approved in April 2026 sets new boundaries taking effect in September 2027. A house that sat in a given catchment when it last sold may not sit there now. If a particular school is part of why you are buying, run the address through the Locator before you write the offer, and put nothing in the contract that depends on a catchment staying where it is.
Primary sources
- Langley School District (SD35) — School Locator · Other · retrieved
- School Act, RSBC 1996, c. 412 — catchment authority · BC Government · retrieved
Backed by Fact Bank entries
- Bill 44 (2023) — SSMUH (Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing) — NOT to be confused with Bill 44 (2022) Building and Strata Statutes Amendment Act.
Verified sources (7)· re-verified Oct 13, 2026Show sources
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- Legislative Assembly of British Columbiaretrieved Oct 13, 2026· published Nov 30, 2023Hansard, 30 November 2023, p.m. (Issue 375): Royal Assent to Bills 44 and 47https://lims.leg.bc.ca/hdms/file/Debates/42nd4th/20231130pm-Hansard-n375.html
Primary source for the Royal Assent date of both bills. Corrected 2026-10-13: the site had said 2023-12-07, which is the date regulations were made / Order in Council 673/2023 brought the main provisions of Bill 44 into force. Not added to history[]: the old value was wrong, not superseded.
- BC Lawsretrieved Oct 13, 2026· published Dec 7, 2023Order in Council 673/2023: brings sections of the Housing Statutes (Residential Development) Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 44) into force effective 7 December 2023https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/oic_cur/0673_2023
- BC Governmentretrieved Aug 10, 2026Small-scale multi-unit housing (SSMUH)https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/local-governments-and-housing/housing-initiatives/smale-scale-multi-unit-housing
- BC Governmentretrieved Aug 10, 2026Small-Scale, Multi-Unit Housing — Provincial Policy Manual & Site Standardshttps://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/housing-and-tenancy/tools-for-government/local-governments-and-housing/ssmuh_provincial_policy_manual.pdf
- BC Lawsretrieved Aug 10, 2026· published Nov 27, 2025Bill 25 — 2025: Housing and Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, 2025https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/bills/billsprevious/1st43rd:gov25-1
- BC Governmentretrieved Aug 10, 2026Bill 25 SSMUH Policy Bulletinhttps://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/housing-and-tenancy/tools-for-government/local-governments-and-housing/bill_25_ssmuh_policy_bulletin.pdf
- Otherretrieved Aug 10, 2026Small-Scale, Multi-Unit Housing — Township of Langleyhttps://www.tol.ca/en/the-township/small-scale-multi-unit-housing.aspx
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