Tuesday January 7, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Public education in the west shore region of Greater Victoria is delivered by the Sooke School District (SD62).
SD62 has announced their Kindergarten registration dates for the 2025-2026 school year (i.e. September 2025 to June 2026).
Children born in 2020 are eligible to start kindergarten. For parents to enroll their children, the children must be 5 years old on or before December 31, 2025. SD62 says there are no exceptions to this age requirement.
Registration dates:
On the SD62 Kindergarten information page there is more information, including these dates and times.
- Nature Kindergarten Registration: January 13–17, 2025
- French Immersion Kindergarten Registration: January 13–17, 2025
- Regular Kindergarten Registration: January 29–February 5, 2025
Registration opens at 8:00 AM on the first day of each registration period and closes at 4:00 PM on the final day.
Lottery for over-enrolled programs:
- French Immersion and Nature Kindergarten programs typically involve a lottery due to high demand.
- If the number of registrations for a Regular Kindergarten program at an elementary school exceeds the available seats, a lottery will also be conducted.
Program options:
- Nature Kindergarten – offered at Sangster Elementary with info session (Colwood) on Jan 9 & Saseenos Elementary (Sooke) with info session on Jan 11 | Register online
- Kindergarten French Immersion – offered at three schools: École John Stubbs Memorial | École Poirier Elementary | École Millstream Elementary. Note: For École John Stubbs, the elementary and middle schools are separate. If you have a child in École John Stubbs Middle School or have a child who will be in the middle school the following September and are registering another child in École John Stubbs Elementary School, enrolment priorities #2 or #4 will not apply
- Student Enrolment Priorities – As a growing district, several SD62 schools are frequently at capacity. In the event there are more students than a school can accommodate, student enrolment will be applied based on the following:
- re-enrolling students
- a catchment area child who has a sibling currently attending the school
- a catchment area child
- a non-catchment child who has a sibling currently attending the school
- a non-catchment child
- a non-school district child
===== RELATED:
- SD62 launches 2025 with new board leadership (January 4, 2025)
- SD62 opens up 2025-2029 strategic plan input to broader community (December 9, 2024)
NEWS SECTIONS: SOOKE SCHOOL DISTRICT SD62 | K-12 EDUCATION
===== ABOUT THE WRITER:
Mary P Brooke has covered SD62 education politics in the west shore and Sooke since 2014 at the board and committee level.