School District 33 Chilliwack is a school district in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada. It has an enrollment of approximately 15,321 full students, and approximately 2,400 teachers and support staff. Its annual budget for the 2023/24 school year is $248,394,300 CAD.
The District operates under authority of the School Act of British Columbia. It is governed by Board of Education consisting of seven trustees elected to four-year terms and is funded principally by the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Education.
The Chilliwack School District was created on June 16, 1870. James Kennedy was the first teacher appointed by the Province of British Columbia in Chilliwack, on June 18, 1872.
The district is governed by the school board, which consists of seven trustees elected at-large every four years. The most recent election was on October 15, 2022. The next scheduled election will be October 17, 2026. A vacancy was created on the Board when Trustee Heather Maahs was elected to be the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Chilliwack North in the 2024 British Columbia general election. Laurie Throness was elected in a byelection on 1 March 2025.
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