Where is Earl Marriott Secondary located?

Earl Marriott Secondary is at 15751 16 Avenue, Surrey, BC V4A 1S1: South Surrey, near 16 Avenue / 160 Street, inside School District 36 (Surrey Schools). The address and catchment are published by SD 36 and should be verified for any specific home through the SD 36 catchment finder before treating school access as a guaranteed feature of a purchase.

What does the Earl Marriott catchment cover?

Most of South Surrey plus portions of White Rock, Sunnyside, Crescent Beach, Grandview Heights, and Morgan Creek, but the exact line varies block-by-block, and SD 36 reviews boundaries periodically. Two homes one street apart can be in different catchments. Pull the live SD 36 catchment map for any specific address and confirm the assigned secondary school before paying any premium that prices in school access.

Is South Surrey detached worth the Earl Marriott catchment premium?

It depends on whether you would have bought South Surrey anyway. If a family is already deciding between South Surrey, White Rock, and Cloverdale on lifestyle / commute / detached-lot grounds, the Earl Marriott catchment is a meaningful tiebreaker, particularly for parents prioritising the French Immersion stream, the Advanced Placement program or the Hockey Academy. If a family is shopping price first and would otherwise consider Cloverdale or North Delta, the catchment premium may not pencil. The premium itself is not a published number. It is an aggregate of the lifestyle / lot / school / amenity bundle that South Surrey buyers price into detached, and it shows up in benchmark differentials between catchment-adjacent micro-areas. Verify against the live FVREB benchmark for the specific sub-area before underwriting any catchment thesis.

Does Earl Marriott offer the IB Diploma Programme?

No. In Surrey the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme is offered at Semiahmoo Secondary and Johnston Heights Secondary (surreyschools.ca). Earl Marriott runs French Immersion, an Advanced Placement program and a Hockey Academy. Elsewhere in the region the IB Diploma runs at R.E. Mountain Secondary in SD 35 (Langley), Port Moody Secondary in SD 43 (Coquitlam), Carson Graham Secondary in SD 44 (North Vancouver), West Vancouver Secondary in SD 45, Sir Winston Churchill (Vancouver, SD 39) and Richmond Secondary (Richmond, SD 38).

How does French Immersion at Earl Marriott work?

French Immersion in BC is a registered program stream: students enrol in either Early French Immersion (typically starting in Kindergarten or Grade 1) or Late French Immersion (typically starting in Grade 6) at participating elementary schools, then continue the stream at a designated secondary host. Earl Marriott is one of SD 36's secondary French Immersion sites and accepts students continuing the stream from feeder elementaries that offer French Immersion. Families need to start the stream at the elementary level: moving into the catchment in Grade 9 specifically for Immersion is rarely workable because the program builds on years of cumulative instruction. Verify the SD 36 French Immersion host list and the specific feeder elementaries currently offering the program before assuming a Late or Early Immersion seat is available for an Earl Marriott catchment address.

What is the Hockey Academy at Earl Marriott?

Earl Marriott lists a Hockey Academy among its academies, with details on the academy's own site (emshockeyacademy.com). Like other academies it is an application program with its own fees and intake, not something a catchment address brings with it, so check the current intake before counting it as a reason to buy inside the line.

Which feeder elementaries serve Earl Marriott?

Common Earl Marriott feeder elementaries include Crescent Park Elementary, Jessie Lee Elementary, H.T. Thrift Elementary, and Sunnyside Elementary, but SD 36 publishes the official feeder pattern, and the assigned elementary for any specific address can be confirmed through the SD 36 catchment finder. Cross-boundary applications are sometimes available through SD 36 but are subject to space and not guaranteed. Buyers prioritising a specific elementary feeder should confirm the catchment line for the address before assuming the feeder, because two homes on the same block can occasionally fall on different sides of an SD 36 catchment boundary.

Are Morgan Creek and Crescent Beach in the Earl Marriott catchment?

Parts of Morgan Creek, Crescent Beach, and Sunnyside fall inside the Earl Marriott catchment. These neighbourhoods are among the meaningful family-buyer drivers for South Surrey detached pricing inside the catchment. The exact catchment line is not a perfect overlay of the named neighbourhood: sub-blocks within Morgan Creek or Crescent Beach can fall outside Earl Marriott's catchment depending on the specific street. Pull the live SD 36 catchment map for the specific address before assuming the school assignment for any neighbourhood-named MLS listing.

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Earl Marriott Secondary (South Surrey): Catchment + Programs Buyer Guide

Last reviewed 24 September 2026 by Bronson Job PREC, REALTOR®Sources: School District 36 (Surrey Schools), Earl Marriott Secondary published program pages, IB Americas (ibo.org), FVREB benchmarksCC BY 4.0How we verify

This guide covers Earl Marriott Secondary at 15751 16 Avenue, Surrey, BC V4A 1S1: its catchment and what it means for a family buying a home in South Surrey. The catchment covers most of South Surrey plus parts of White Rock, Sunnyside, Crescent Beach, Grandview Heights, and Morgan Creek, all inside School District 36. Read alongside the South Surrey neighbourhood guide and the White Rock neighbourhood guide.

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School at a glance

Address: 15751 16 Avenue, Surrey, BC V4A 1S1
District: School District 36 (Surrey Schools); grades: 8–12
Named for: Earl Marriott, a longtime Surrey educator and school principal
Programs: French Immersion; Advanced Placement; Hockey Academy
IB Diploma Programme: not at Earl Marriott; in Surrey it runs at Semiahmoo and Johnston Heights
Catchment (broad strokes): most of South Surrey plus parts of White Rock, Sunnyside, Crescent Beach, Grandview Heights, and Morgan Creek

All address, district, and program information is published by SD 36 and the school’s own pages. Verify the current catchment line for any specific address using the live SD 36 catchment finder.

Programs: what makes Earl Marriott distinctive

Earl Marriott’s differentiation is not the IB Diploma Programme. The SD 36 IB host sits elsewhere in the district. Families specifically chasing IB should look at IB Americas’ published list on ibo.org and at non-SD-36 IB World Schools like R.E. Mountain Secondary (SD 35 Langley), Pinetree Secondary (SD 43 Coquitlam), West Vancouver Secondary (SD 45), and the Vancouver-side Sir Winston Churchill / Cambie programs.

What Earl Marriott does run, per its own program pages: French Immersion (for students continuing from elementary immersion), an Advanced Placement program, and a Hockey Academy. The academy and the immersion seat each have their own entry route, so neither flows automatically from an address inside the catchment.

Catchment confirmation

The catchment broadly covers most of South Surrey plus portions of White Rock, Sunnyside, Crescent Beach, Grandview Heights, and Morgan Creek, but the specific line is set parcel-by-parcel by SD 36 and is reviewed periodically. Two homes a block apart can be in different catchments. SD 36 publishes a catchment finder (often branded “catchment lookup”) that returns the assigned elementary, middle / junior, and secondary school for any Surrey civic address.

The diligence step is mechanical: pull the SD 36 catchment finder, enter the civic address, and confirm the assigned secondary as Earl Marriott. A listing’s “Earl Marriott catchment” bullet, a neighbourhood-name overlay, or a school-rating screenshot is not the source of truth. The SD 36 finder is.

Feeder elementaries

Common Earl Marriott feeders include Crescent Park Elementary, Jessie Lee Elementary, H.T. Thrift Elementary, and Sunnyside Elementary, with the specific feeder for any address determined by SD 36. Cross-boundary applications are sometimes available but are subject to space and not guaranteed.

Crescent Park Elementary

Feeds a large share of the Earl Marriott catchment from the Crescent Park / Crescent Beach side, including the residential grid east of Crescent Park itself.

Jessie Lee Elementary

Serves a portion of the central Earl Marriott catchment around 16 Avenue + 152 Street, and is one of the more commonly cited feeders in MLS listings inside the catchment.

H.T. Thrift Elementary

Feeds parts of the central / western South Surrey grid into Earl Marriott. The specific feeder for any address should be confirmed via the live SD 36 catchment finder.

Sunnyside Elementary

Feeds the eastern / Sunnyside-area Earl Marriott catchment, including Morgan Creek-adjacent residential grid.

This is not a complete list of feeders: SD 36 publishes the official feeder pattern, and additional elementaries may serve sub-blocks of the Earl Marriott catchment. Verify the assigned elementary for any specific address through the SD 36 catchment finder.

Earl Marriott vs. Semiahmoo vs. Elgin Park

Three SD 36 secondaries dominate the South Surrey / White Rock family-buyer conversation: Earl Marriott, Semiahmoo Secondary, and Elgin Park Secondary. Each runs its own catchment and its own programs. Of the three, only Semiahmoo runs the International Baccalaureate Diploma; Surrey’s other IB Diploma school is Johnston Heights.

Earl Marriott is the French Immersion, Advanced Placement and Hockey Academy choice, pulling the South Surrey + Crescent Beach + Sunnyside + Morgan Creek family-buyer demographic. Semiahmoo serves a different South Surrey / White Rock catchment and runs the IB Diploma; many White Rock catchment-conscious families price Semiahmoo specifically. Elgin Park serves the Elgin / Chantrell area further east. Catchment lines do not overlap: a single address feeds one of the three, not a choice between them. Do not pay a Semiahmoo catchment premium for an Earl Marriott address (or vice versa).

Real-estate impact: how the catchment shapes South Surrey detached

Earl Marriott’s catchment overlaps three of South Surrey’s most family-buyer-driven detached sub-areas: Morgan Creek, Crescent Beach / Sunnyside, and parts of Grandview Heights. Family buyers paying for the full lifestyle bundle (lot size, mature trees, walkability to the beach, golf and trail amenity, and the school catchment) price the catchment line into their offer whether or not they articulate it as such. Catchment-conscious shortlists are typically narrower than the headline MLS pool because they pre-filter for the SD 36 line, not just the neighbourhood name.

There is no published dollar premium for the Earl Marriott catchment on its own. The benchmark differential between catchment-adjacent micro-areas is an aggregate of the lifestyle, lot, school, and amenity bundle; isolating the school-only component would require a regression analysis no public study currently provides. The diligence step that does matter is mechanical and free: confirm which side of the catchment line a specific address sits on before pricing in school access.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Earl Marriott Secondary located?
Earl Marriott Secondary is at 15751 16 Avenue, Surrey, BC V4A 1S1: South Surrey, near 16 Avenue / 160 Street, inside School District 36 (Surrey Schools). The address and catchment are published by SD 36 and should be verified for any specific home through the SD 36 catchment finder before treating school access as a guaranteed feature of a purchase.
What does the Earl Marriott catchment cover?
Most of South Surrey plus portions of White Rock, Sunnyside, Crescent Beach, Grandview Heights, and Morgan Creek, but the exact line varies block-by-block, and SD 36 reviews boundaries periodically. Two homes one street apart can be in different catchments. Pull the live SD 36 catchment map for any specific address and confirm the assigned secondary school before paying any premium that prices in school access.
Is South Surrey detached worth the Earl Marriott catchment premium?
It depends on whether you would have bought South Surrey anyway. If a family is already deciding between South Surrey, White Rock, and Cloverdale on lifestyle / commute / detached-lot grounds, the Earl Marriott catchment is a meaningful tiebreaker, particularly for parents prioritising the French Immersion stream, the Advanced Placement program or the Hockey Academy. If a family is shopping price first and would otherwise consider Cloverdale or North Delta, the catchment premium may not pencil. The premium itself is not a published number. It is an aggregate of the lifestyle / lot / school / amenity bundle that South Surrey buyers price into detached, and it shows up in benchmark differentials between catchment-adjacent micro-areas. Verify against the live FVREB benchmark for the specific sub-area before underwriting any catchment thesis.
What's the difference between Earl Marriott and Semiahmoo Secondary?
Both are SD 36 South Surrey / White Rock secondaries, but they have distinct programs and catchments. Earl Marriott runs French Immersion, an Advanced Placement program and a Hockey Academy; the catchment is largely South Surrey + parts of White Rock, Sunnyside, Crescent Beach, Grandview Heights, and Morgan Creek. Semiahmoo Secondary serves a different South Surrey / White Rock catchment and is one of the two Surrey schools that run the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme; the other is Johnston Heights (surreyschools.ca).
Does Earl Marriott offer the IB Diploma Programme?
No. In Surrey the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme is offered at Semiahmoo Secondary and Johnston Heights Secondary (surreyschools.ca). Earl Marriott runs French Immersion, an Advanced Placement program and a Hockey Academy. Elsewhere in the region the IB Diploma runs at R.E. Mountain Secondary in SD 35 (Langley), Port Moody Secondary in SD 43 (Coquitlam), Carson Graham Secondary in SD 44 (North Vancouver), West Vancouver Secondary in SD 45, Sir Winston Churchill (Vancouver, SD 39) and Richmond Secondary (Richmond, SD 38).
How does French Immersion at Earl Marriott work?
French Immersion in BC is a registered program stream: students enrol in either Early French Immersion (typically starting in Kindergarten or Grade 1) or Late French Immersion (typically starting in Grade 6) at participating elementary schools, then continue the stream at a designated secondary host. Earl Marriott is one of SD 36's secondary French Immersion sites and accepts students continuing the stream from feeder elementaries that offer French Immersion. Families need to start the stream at the elementary level: moving into the catchment in Grade 9 specifically for Immersion is rarely workable because the program builds on years of cumulative instruction. Verify the SD 36 French Immersion host list and the specific feeder elementaries currently offering the program before assuming a Late or Early Immersion seat is available for an Earl Marriott catchment address.
What is the Hockey Academy at Earl Marriott?
Earl Marriott lists a Hockey Academy among its academies, with details on the academy's own site (emshockeyacademy.com). Like other academies it is an application program with its own fees and intake, not something a catchment address brings with it, so check the current intake before counting it as a reason to buy inside the line.
Which feeder elementaries serve Earl Marriott?
Common Earl Marriott feeder elementaries include Crescent Park Elementary, Jessie Lee Elementary, H.T. Thrift Elementary, and Sunnyside Elementary, but SD 36 publishes the official feeder pattern, and the assigned elementary for any specific address can be confirmed through the SD 36 catchment finder. Cross-boundary applications are sometimes available through SD 36 but are subject to space and not guaranteed. Buyers prioritising a specific elementary feeder should confirm the catchment line for the address before assuming the feeder, because two homes on the same block can occasionally fall on different sides of an SD 36 catchment boundary.
Are Morgan Creek and Crescent Beach in the Earl Marriott catchment?
Parts of Morgan Creek, Crescent Beach, and Sunnyside fall inside the Earl Marriott catchment. These neighbourhoods are among the meaningful family-buyer drivers for South Surrey detached pricing inside the catchment. The exact catchment line is not a perfect overlay of the named neighbourhood: sub-blocks within Morgan Creek or Crescent Beach can fall outside Earl Marriott's catchment depending on the specific street. Pull the live SD 36 catchment map for the specific address before assuming the school assignment for any neighbourhood-named MLS listing.