Real Estate Near Quadra Elementary in Hillside-Quadra and Burnside

About École Quadra Elementary

École Quadra Elementary stands at 3031 Quadra Street, and its story starts in 1912, when the district bought the site and the first class was taught in a tent. A two-room annex followed in 1913 and the main building, with eight classrooms and an auditorium, opened in 1914 with 181 pupils. The school takes its name from the Spanish explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, who sailed this coast in the late 1700s. Additions came in the 1960s and 1970s, and in 2013-14 the building received a major seismic upgrade, a new entry and interior renovations while students spent the year at a temporary site on Richmond Road. To mark the centennial, Tony Hunt Jr. carved a totem pole for the school in 2015.

Quadra has taught Kindergarten to Grade 5 since 2003 and is one of the dual-track schools in School District 61 (Greater Victoria); French Immersion moved here from Cloverdale in 1979. Under the district’s current pathways, students go on to Lansdowne Middle School and then Victoria High School, and the school lists the same Lansdowne and Vic High route for its French Immersion students. The 2020-21 boundary changes trimmed Quadra’s catchment when a new Cloverdale catchment was created to the north.

Programs in English and French

The school describes a broad curriculum taught in both English and French, with learning support in both languages. Activities shift each year with staffing and volunteers, so confirm current offerings with the school.

Clubs, Sport and Child Care

Lunchtime clubs have included creative writing, art, dance, cross-stitch, a Rainbow Club and a Kindness Ninja Club. Students in Grades 3 to 5 run cross-country and track and field at district meets, rugby, soccer and floor hockey appear in some years, and a few students join a weekly beginner hockey program at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.

The Burnside Gorge Community Association provides before- and after-school care on the grounds, and staff supervision runs from 8:30 a.m. before classes and until 3:00 p.m. after the bell. Parents also organize gardening volunteers for the school grounds.

Living Within the Quadra Elementary Catchment

The whole catchment lies inside the City of Victoria and runs roughly two and a half kilometres east to west. At its eastern end are Hillside-Quadra and the Quadra Village area, with Quadra Street, Hillside Avenue and Topaz Park; to the north it takes in Mayfair around the north end of Cook Street and Rutledge Street; and to the west it reaches into Burnside, where condo streets such as Speed Avenue, Dunedin Street, Manchester Road and Washington Avenue lead down to the Selkirk waterfront on Waterfront Crescent. The map search follows the district’s published elementary catchment map, simplified, so homes right on the edge may fall on either side; check an exact address with the district.

Condos lead the market here, with more than half of the current listings. Many are in buildings from the late 1980s and early 1990s around Burnside and Wark Street, joined by 2023 micro-units of under 400 square feet on Speed Avenue, older units on Hillside Avenue and Cook Street, and waterfront buildings at Selkirk. Mayfair and Hillside-Quadra add modest older houses, some dating to the 1910s. At the start of November 2026 there were about 44 homes listed inside the catchment. The cheapest was a small 1970s unit of just over 400 square feet near $220,000; nearly all condos were priced between about $285,000 and $675,000, with a median near $510,000. Nine townhomes ran from about $600,000 to $1.05 million, ten houses from about $600,000 to $2.5 million with a median near $940,000, and one lot was offered at about $1.1 million.

Search wider with Quadra real estate, Burnside condos for sale or Quadra condos for sale. Quadra students continue through the Lansdowne Middle catchment to the Victoria High catchment, and the neighbouring Oaklands Elementary and Cloverdale Elementary catchments sit to the east and north.

A property’s address inside these boundaries does not by itself guarantee a place at Quadra Elementary. 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.