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Browse current MLS® listings inside the map area drawn around Stelly’s Secondary School, covering Saanichton village, the Turgoose, Hawthorne and Island View areas and the Saanich Inlet side of Central Saanich, and learn about the school, its programs and the homes nearby.
Stelly’s Secondary School is at 1627 Stelly’s Cross Road in Saanichton, in the District of Central Saanich, and teaches Grades 9 through 12 for School District 63 (Saanich). It is one of the district’s three regular secondary schools, along with Claremont and Parkland, and its teams play as the Stelly’s Stingers. SD63 also runs Individual Learning Centre programs and a distance-education school for students who need a different setting.
Bayside Middle School in Brentwood Bay, which teaches Grades 6 to 8, prepares its Grade 8 students for the move to Stelly’s every winter. The transition includes a meeting with Stelly’s staff, a mini fair of elective courses, an evening course-selection session for parents and school tours in the spring. Stelly’s is also the only SD63 secondary school listed for French Immersion, so immersion students from across the district finish their program here.
The school has deep local roots. Its culinary program was founded in 1977 by Master Chef Ross Martin, and for years students served a fine-dining lunch to the public in the school’s George Stelly Dining Room, which closed to outside diners in 2001. Stelly’s acknowledges that it stands on the traditional territory of the WSANEC people.
Alongside the full Grade 9 to 12 curriculum, Stelly’s offers several academies and focus programs. Offerings, fees and application dates change from year to year, so confirm current details with the school before counting on a particular program.
Stelly’s runs its Climbing Academy with The Boulders, a not-for-profit climbing society in Central Saanich with more than 13,000 square feet of climbing space. Students can take it as a semester course or a full-year class. Applications close in late winter for the following year, and the academy charges a fee (for 2025/26, from $750 to $1,425 depending on the option), with payment plans available.
This two-year program is built around making positive change. Grade 11 students study local issues such as homelessness, addiction, mental health and environmental damage, volunteer at Our Place Society in Victoria, where Stelly’s has run a weekly dinner shift since 2005, and complete a community action project. Grade 12 centres on a major project in a developing country or an independent study, supported by the class’s Global Gala fundraiser.
Arts classes are open to every student, whatever their experience. Choices run from beginner to performance dance, junior and senior drama, musical theatre with a pit orchestra and stagecraft to concert band, jazz band, choir, vocal jazz and guitar. The next full-length production, the musical Anything Goes, is set for mid-January 2027.
Students train in a working teaching kitchen organized into bakery, entree, grill, sanitation and lunch-service stations. Courses include Culinary Arts, Professional Cooking, Catering and Indigenous Culinary Arts. The program runs the lunch service for students and staff, with hot entrees and baked goods every school day, and cooks for catering clients during the year.
Stelly’s is the SD63 secondary school for French Immersion. The district’s early immersion path starts in Kindergarten at Deep Cove or Keating Elementary, continues at Bayside Middle and finishes here in Grades 9 to 12. Graduates of the program receive a bilingual designation on their secondary school diploma.
SD63 schools sit on WSANEC territory, home to the Pauquachin, Tsartlip, Tseycum and Tsawout communities. Stelly’s has an Indigenous Education support teacher who works with Indigenous Education Assistants on transitions and graduation, and the school’s current plan makes Indigenous learner success one of its two goals.
Stelly’s fields teams in every season. Fall brings aquatics, boys’ soccer, cross-country, rowing and volleyball; winter is boys’ and girls’ basketball plus wrestling; and spring adds rugby, track and field, girls’ soccer, tennis, badminton, ultimate and golf.
Clubs range from Model United Nations, Best Buddies and a Gender Sexuality Alliance to chess, curling, pickleball, gardening, textile arts, beading and tabletop gaming, while the Multicultural Student Alliance and Social Justice Club give students a voice on wider issues. Student services include counselling, career education, graduation planning, a learning commons and a scholarships and awards program. The school plan’s second goal is social and emotional wellness, pursued through a school-wide program that helps students understand and manage their own well-being, and parents can take part through the Stelly’s Parent Advisory Council.
The map search on this page centres on Saanichton village and the farmland around the school. It runs east through the Turgoose, Hawthorne and Island View areas to the coast, and west past West Saanich Road to the Saanich Inlet shoreline, with a narrow strip of southern North Saanich in its northwest corner. The outline is this site’s approximation of the area Stelly’s serves, not the district’s official boundary. Brentwood Bay village sits just south of the drawn area, so check addresses there with the district. For the wider area, see Central Saanich homes for sale, the Central Saanich neighbourhood guide, Brentwood Bay, North Saanich and the Saanich Peninsula.
Housing here is unusually varied for one catchment. Saanichton has newer condominium buildings such as Sequoia at Marigold on Hackett Crescent and Cento on Wallace Drive, older strata condos and townhomes around Polo Park and Ferguson Road, and family houses on streets such as Saanich Ridge Drive. Established manufactured-home communities in the Hawthorne and Saanichton areas hold the catchment’s lowest prices, while the inlet side has acreages and large waterfront estates. In late October 2026 there were about 68 homes listed inside the catchment, priced from roughly $230,000 to $16.5 million: around 32 condos and townhomes, 24 manufactured homes, 11 detached houses and one building lot. A few inlet estates lift the average asking price to about $1.36 million, well above what most homes here cost.
A property’s address inside these boundaries does not by itself guarantee a place at Stelly’s Secondary School. 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 63 (Saanich) before relying on school access as part of a real-estate decision. Compare other catchments on the Greater Victoria schools page.
Address:
1627 Stelly’s Cross Road
Saanichton, British Columbia V8M 1S8
Phone: 250-652-4401
Visit the official school website for current registration information, course selection, program applications, calendars and school announcements.
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