Norgate School

Norgate School is a public elementary school at 1295 Sowden Street in the Capilano neighbourhood of North Vancouver, run under a community school model. Given its location near Squamish Nation lands, the school incorporates local Indigenous history and cultural perspectives into its everyday programming, alongside the standard BC curriculum starting from kindergarten.

A parent advisory council works alongside school staff to help fund events, field trips, and facility improvements, a common arrangement at BC public schools. Between the community school programming and the advisory council's involvement, Norgate functions as a gathering point for Capilano-area families beyond regular class hours, not just a place to drop children off in the morning. Designating a school as a community school is a North Vancouver School District classification rather than something unique to one building, and it generally signals that a campus is meant to be used by the wider neighbourhood outside of instructional hours as well as during the school day.