{"id":986,"date":"2021-06-24T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/?page_id=986"},"modified":"2021-06-25T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T18:19:28","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-77piy-3437a4a1a3e656572b2f3a41f78ed702\">\n.flex_column.av-77piy-3437a4a1a3e656572b2f3a41f78ed702{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-77piy-3437a4a1a3e656572b2f3a41f78ed702 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kqbd1r67-acb65b4987c877d0680318ab812d18b8\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kqbd1r67-acb65b4987c877d0680318ab812d18b8 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kqbd1r67-acb65b4987c877d0680318ab812d18b8 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kqbd1r67-acb65b4987c877d0680318ab812d18b8 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-987 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-987 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/GP-Vanier-Exterior-1.jpg\" alt='' title='GP Vanier Exterior'  height=\"600\" width=\"1200\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/GP-Vanier-Exterior-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/GP-Vanier-Exterior-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/GP-Vanier-Exterior-1-1030x515.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/GP-Vanier-Exterior-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/06\/GP-Vanier-Exterior-1-705x353.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-brxka-401d730cb5d70de6fca9617d10ed54c0\">\n.flex_column.av-brxka-401d730cb5d70de6fca9617d10ed54c0{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-brxka-401d730cb5d70de6fca9617d10ed54c0 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kqbd01r7-90e21b68403952fd420345f4f5da46c1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>About GP Vanier Secondary<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The school opened in January 1968, completing a move of students from the old Courtenay Senior High School. Vanier was built to have a capacity of 1200 students. The school population grew to more than 1700 in the early 2000s, with the addition of 36 portable classrooms. This led to the opening of\u00a0Mark R. Isfeld Senior Secondary School, which became the third district secondary school in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Vanier has primarily been the regional secondary school in the Comox Valley School District, serving students from\u00a0Hornby\u00a0and\u00a0Denman\u00a0Islands, the City of Courtenay, and the communities of\u00a0Dove Creek,\u00a0Merville,\u00a0Black Creek,\u00a0Saratoga\u00a0and Miracle Beach communities up to the\u00a0Oyster River, which separates the Comox Valley School District from the\u00a0Campbell River\u00a0district.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the school started a $33.8 million upgrade, which were completed in 2018.<sup id=\"cite_ref-BC_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<h3>Facilities<\/h3>\n<p>The school facility has a natural setting on 96 acres (390,000\u00a0m<sup>2<\/sup>) located next to the Comox Valley Sports Centre, community track and playing fields. The grounds include three playing fields and access to a community all-weather field and a community daycare primarily built for teen mothers.<\/p>\n<p>The school includes the Vanier Studio Theatre, a full teaching cafeteria, and a large technology education wing that includes shops for house construction, auto mechanics, small engines, metalworking, electronics\/robotics, woodwork and drafting.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 16:52:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_tag","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17815,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986\/revisions\/17815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/gp-vanier-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}