About Lambrick Park Secondary School
Lambrick Park Secondary School is at 4139 Torquay Drive in the Gordon Head area of Saanich. It is a Grade 9 to 12 school in School District 61 (Greater Victoria), and with roughly 620 students on the district’s latest profile it is one of the smaller secondary schools in the district, something the school itself presents as a more personal setting. Its teams play as the Lambrick Lions, and the school motto is PRIDE, shorthand for persevering with respect and integrity and dedicating oneself to becoming a contributing citizen.
Lambrick Park marked its 50th anniversary in 2026 with an alumni and community open house on October 3. The school’s current shape dates from September 2006, when the district moved to a middle-school model and created the Lambrick family of schools: Hillcrest and Torquay elementary schools now teach Kindergarten to Grade 5, Gordon Head Middle School is the family’s middle school, and Lambrick Park, which had taught Grades 8 to 12, became a Grade 9 to 12 school.
The school sits within a residential pocket of Gordon Head close to Lambrick Park, the Saanich park that holds the Gordon Head Recreation Centre and a cluster of sports fields. Saanich began a renewal plan for that park in 2025, with draft concepts for the recreation centre and fields expected to go out for public comment in early 2027.
Academic and Specialty Programs
Lambrick Park pairs the full BC curriculum with an athletic academy, an accelerated Grade 9 option and routes into college and university credit before graduation. Program details, fees and application deadlines change from year to year, so families should confirm current information with the school.
Baseball and Softball Academy
A program of choice for students who want to develop as baseball or softball players at any skill level. Students train daily on technique, conditioning and injury prevention and complete Physical and Health Education outcomes such as nutrition, mental health and goal setting. The year moves from outdoor field work in the fall to indoor and weight-room training in winter and in-season practice in spring, with analytics tools used to track each athlete’s progress.
ACCEL 9
Grade 8 students can apply for two accelerated, year-long Grade 9 classes. SciMatics combines Science 9, Math 9 and Science 10, and Humanities combines English 9, Social Studies 9 and Social Studies 10, so students earn three credits in the time usually needed for two. Selection looks at achievement, self-management and interest in the subject, followed by an interview.
Dual Credit and uStart
The school’s course handbook includes a dual-credit stream with Camosun College. High-achieving students can also apply in Grade 11 for uStart, the district program that lets Grade 12 students take University of Victoria courses with tuition covered by SD61, earning both high-school elective credit and university credit.
Technology and Business
Information technology courses cover programming and web design, alongside woodwork, metalwork and foods. Business electives include accounting, economics and marketing, and leadership courses are also offered.
Math and Sciences
Senior students can take pre-calculus and calculus along with biology, chemistry, earth science and physics, and the SciMatics class gives keen Grade 9 students an early start on the senior math and science sequence.
Languages and Social Studies
French and Spanish are offered as modern languages. Social studies electives range from law, psychology and philosophy to social justice, comparative civilizations, geography and history.
Arts, Athletics and School Community
The Lions compete at junior and senior levels. Fall sports include cross-country, girls’ field hockey, rowing, boys’ soccer, volleyball and swimming; winter brings badminton, basketball and curling; and spring adds girls’ soccer, tennis, track and field and golf, with baseball and softball centred on the academy. The district profile still lists the school’s 2014 provincial titles in senior girls’ volleyball and senior boys’ basketball among its highlights.
In the arts, students can choose drawing and painting, ceramics and sculpture, digital imaging, media arts, drama and yearbook, while the music program includes concert band, jazz band, strings, vocal jazz and choir; the music department staged its fall concert in late October 2026. Clubs have included an after-school dance club, a school greening and landscaping project and a library club, and international students are represented on student council. A career centre helps students plan for work, college and university.
Living Within the Lambrick Park Catchment
The map search on this page covers northern Gordon Head. It runs from the Feltham Road area, just north of the Mount Doug catchment, through the Lambrick Park neighbourhood to the Haro Strait shoreline at Gordon Point, and west to the eastern slopes of Mount Douglas Park, with a sliver of southern Cordova Bay. It is this site’s approximation, not the district’s official boundary. To the north lies the Claremont Secondary catchment in School District 63 (Saanich). See also all Gordon Head houses for sale, Gordon Head view homes or Saanich real estate.
This is mainly a neighbourhood of 1960s and 1970s family houses, some with suites, along with 1970s townhome complexes on streets such as Larchwood Drive and Torquay Drive. Newer options are filling in: condos built on Shelbourne Street in 2023, the micro-studios and townhomes at Marlowe on Tyndall Avenue, and new townhomes built in 2026 on Ash Road and Shore Way. Along the water, view and oceanfront homes command the highest prices. In late October 2026 there were about 54 homes listed inside the map area, priced from roughly $345,000 for a Marlowe micro-studio to $7.9 million for a waterfront home on Leyns Road. The average asking price was about $1.75 million, pulled up by a handful of shoreline listings.
A property’s address inside these boundaries does not by itself guarantee a place at Lambrick Park Secondary. Catchment boundaries, registration rules and program admission can change, and some programs depend on capacity. Buyers should confirm the current catchment and registration status with School District 61 (Greater Victoria) before relying on school access as part of a real-estate decision. Compare other catchments on the Greater Victoria schools page.