Where is Earl Marriott Secondary located?

Earl Marriott Secondary is at 15945 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?

The honest practitioner answer: 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 or the Athletic Performance Program. 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 is notable for French Immersion, the Athletic Performance Program, Apprenticeship pathways, and a strong arts and athletics culture; 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 runs its own specialised programs. Neither school is currently the SD 36 IB Diploma Programme host (the IB programme in SD 36 has historically been associated with Semiahmoo Trail-area / Semiahmoo Secondary; verify the current SD 36 IB host school against the live SD 36 academies / programs page before treating IB access as a feature of either catchment).

Does Earl Marriott offer the IB Diploma Programme?

Earl Marriott is not currently listed as the SD 36 host of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme. The school's signature program differentiators are French Immersion (Late and / or Early French Immersion track depending on feeder pattern), the Athletic Performance Program, and Apprenticeship pathways, alongside Advanced Placement-style and Mini School / Advanced Studies offerings. Families specifically targeting IB in BC need to look at IB World Schools published by IB Americas — examples include R.E. Mountain Secondary in SD 35 (Langley), Pinetree Secondary in SD 43 (Coquitlam), West Vancouver Secondary in SD 45, and Sir Winston Churchill (Vancouver, SD 39) and Cambie Secondary (Richmond, SD 38). Verify the current IB host list on ibo.org before underwriting school access on the IB stream.

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 Athletic Performance Program at Earl Marriott?

Earl Marriott runs an Athletic Performance Program (APP) targeted at student-athletes balancing competitive training with academic load — the school is widely recognised in the Lower Mainland for its athletics culture. APP is an application-based stream, not a pure catchment entitlement; students typically apply with a sport-specific portfolio, coach references, and an academic record. The program is separate from team sports themselves. Verify the current APP intake criteria, application timeline, and roster of supported sports against the school's own published program page before treating APP access as a feature of an Earl Marriott catchment address.

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.

Hyper-local school landing — South Surrey, SD #36

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

Last reviewed May 10, 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

Earl Marriott Secondary at 15945 16 Avenue, Surrey, BC V4A 1S1 is one of the most consequential school-catchment lines in South Surrey real estate. Its catchment covers most of South Surrey plus parts of White Rock, Sunnyside, Crescent Beach, Grandview Heights, and Morgan Creek — and it is a meaningful family-buyer pull on South Surrey detached pricing, particularly inside the South Surrey pillar and adjacent to the White Rock pillar.

The defendable opinion

For South Surrey families, the Earl Marriott catchment is what the IB-school catchments are for North Vancouver, Coquitlam, and Langley families. It is not a published-ranking story — it is a French Immersion + Athletic Performance + Apprenticeship-pathway + arts story, packaged into a school whose culture has compounded across decades. The honest practitioner read: most of the catchment’s real-estate impact is concentrated in Morgan Creek, Crescent Beach, and Sunnyside, where family-buyer demand is the price-setting bid. If you are buying South Surrey detached for a school-aged child, knowing which side of the catchment line a specific address sits on is a load-bearing piece of due diligence — not a marketing footnote.

The catchment line is where South Surrey detached actually clears at premium — not the postal code, not the neighbourhood name on the listing. Two homes a block apart can sit on different sides of the SD 36 line, and the buyer pool for those two homes is structurally different.

— What I tell every South Surrey detached buyer with kids

School at a glance

Address: 15945 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
Signature programs: French Immersion; Athletic Performance Program (APP); Apprenticeship pathways; Mini School / Advanced Studies; strong arts + athletics culture
IB Diploma Programme: not currently hosted at Earl Marriott (verify on the live SD 36 academies / programs page)
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 host is a layered set of academic, athletic, and apprenticeship streams: French Immersion (continuing students in the SD 36 Immersion stream), the Athletic Performance Program (APP) for competitive student-athletes, Apprenticeship pathways into trades, and Mini School / Advanced Studies for academic-stream learners. The school’s arts and athletics cultures are a meaningful share of why families price the catchment line into South Surrey detached — but each stream is application-based and does not flow automatically from being inside the catchment. Verify the current intake criteria and timelines against the school’s own program pages.

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 “myschoolfinder”) 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 signature program differentiation. None currently hosts the SD 36 IB Diploma Programme based on the publicly listed IB World Schools record — verify the current IB host on ibo.org and on the SD 36 academies / programs page.

Earl Marriott is the French Immersion + Athletic Performance + Apprenticeship-pathway choice, pulling the South Surrey + Crescent Beach + Sunnyside + Morgan Creek family-buyer demographic. Semiahmoo serves a different South Surrey / White Rock catchment with its own academic and arts streams; 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. Practitioner read: 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 math 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.

I do not publish a dollar premium for the Earl Marriott catchment. The benchmark differential is an aggregate of the lifestyle / lot / school / amenity bundle; isolating the school-only premium would require regression analysis I am not currently running, and I would rather give an honest read than invent a number. What I will say is that for the buyer pool I see touring South Surrey detached, the catchment line moves offers more than the listing photos do.

The catchment is real, the programs are real, and the family-buyer demand is real — but the catchment line is set parcel-by-parcel by SD 36, not by the listing description. The diligence is two minutes on the SD 36 catchment finder; the cost of skipping it can be a six-figure mispricing.

— The honest one-liner I give every Earl Marriott catchment buyer

Frequently asked questions

Where is Earl Marriott Secondary located?
Earl Marriott Secondary is at 15945 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?
The honest practitioner answer: 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 or the Athletic Performance Program. 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 is notable for French Immersion, the Athletic Performance Program, Apprenticeship pathways, and a strong arts and athletics culture; 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 runs its own specialised programs. Neither school is currently the SD 36 IB Diploma Programme host (the IB programme in SD 36 has historically been associated with Semiahmoo Trail-area / Semiahmoo Secondary; verify the current SD 36 IB host school against the live SD 36 academies / programs page before treating IB access as a feature of either catchment).
Does Earl Marriott offer the IB Diploma Programme?
Earl Marriott is not currently listed as the SD 36 host of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme. The school's signature program differentiators are French Immersion (Late and / or Early French Immersion track depending on feeder pattern), the Athletic Performance Program, and Apprenticeship pathways, alongside Advanced Placement-style and Mini School / Advanced Studies offerings. Families specifically targeting IB in BC need to look at IB World Schools published by IB Americas — examples include R.E. Mountain Secondary in SD 35 (Langley), Pinetree Secondary in SD 43 (Coquitlam), West Vancouver Secondary in SD 45, and Sir Winston Churchill (Vancouver, SD 39) and Cambie Secondary (Richmond, SD 38). Verify the current IB host list on ibo.org before underwriting school access on the IB stream.
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 Athletic Performance Program at Earl Marriott?
Earl Marriott runs an Athletic Performance Program (APP) targeted at student-athletes balancing competitive training with academic load — the school is widely recognised in the Lower Mainland for its athletics culture. APP is an application-based stream, not a pure catchment entitlement; students typically apply with a sport-specific portfolio, coach references, and an academic record. The program is separate from team sports themselves. Verify the current APP intake criteria, application timeline, and roster of supported sports against the school's own published program page before treating APP access as a feature of an Earl Marriott catchment address.
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.