Homes for Sale in the Victoria High School Catchment

About Victoria High School

Victoria High School, known to generations of students as Vic High, stands at 1260 Grant Street in Victoria’s Fernwood neighbourhood and teaches Grades 9 through 12 for School District 61 (Greater Victoria). It enrols about 1,100 students. Because it offers French Immersion alongside the English program, the school also uses the name École Secondaire Victoria High School, and it describes itself as a school that celebrates diversity, with a long history of welcoming new Canadians and an active International Student Program.

Vic High opened on August 7, 1876, with 12 girls and 22 boys, and the school calls itself the oldest public high school in western Canada. Its first homes, a two-room log schoolhouse and then two brick buildings, stood on grounds now occupied by Central Middle School. The present Grant Street building opened in 1914, with renovations in 1979 and 1998 and the Fairey Technical wing added in 2011. Students moved to the S.J. Willis site while the 1914 building was seismically upgraded and expanded, and returned in April 2024. The Province put $97 million and the district $3 million into that project, which kept the terracotta, granite and brick exterior and the marble, art glass and painted wood panels of the entrance and auditorium, and added space for 200 more students, a new learning commons and a turf field. The 2026-27 school year marks the school’s 150th anniversary.

Vic High anchors the district’s Victoria family of schools. School pages list the family’s elementary schools as George Jay, James Bay Community School, Sir James Douglas, South Park and Oaklands, with Central and Lansdowne as its middle schools.

Academic and Specialty Programs

Vic High pairs a comprehensive academic program with strong technical and career pathways. The programs below come from the school’s own pages, its 2026-27 electives list and the district’s school profile. Course offerings and program details change from year to year, so confirm them with the school.

Arts, Athletics and School Community

The district profile highlights Vic High’s fine and performing arts, and the electives list shows why. Music runs from concert band and concert choir to jazz band, vocal jazz, orchestra, rhythm and blues, guitar and a pit band. Dance includes a classical company and a street-styles stream, drama and musical theatre are offered at every senior grade, and visual arts cover studio art, 3D art, black-and-white film photography, digital photography and media broadcasting.

School teams compete in cross-country, rowing, rugby, soccer, volleyball, basketball, badminton and tennis, and field hockey, wrestling or cycling may be added when there is enough student interest and coaching. Clubs range from Urban Farmers and an environmental club to aquarium, bridge, juggling, improv, salsa dance and Youth for Change and Inclusion.

History is part of daily life here. Students have published the Camosun since 1905, first as a magazine and later as the yearbook, and seven war memorials at the school honour the roughly 500 students, recent graduates and teachers who served in the First World War.

Living Within the Vic High Catchment

The map search on this page is this site’s approximation of the catchment, not the district’s official boundary, and it overlaps the site’s Oak Bay High and Lansdowne Middle maps in places. It covers most of the City of Victoria south of the Saanich line: downtown and Harris Green, James Bay, Fairfield, Rockland, Fernwood, North Park and Central Park, and on toward Hillside, part of Oaklands and the edge of Burnside.

Condos make up most of the market here, from downtown towers to James Bay low-rises, alongside Victorian and Edwardian houses in Fernwood, Fairfield and James Bay, many of them converted into suites. In late October 2026 there were about 380 listings inside the catchment map, priced from under $100,000 for a few unusual listings to about $7.5 million for a luxury condo at the Inner Harbour. Roughly 250 were condos, averaging a little over $600,000; about 70 were detached houses, averaging around $1.37 million; and the rest were mostly townhomes and multi-unit character houses. The overall average asking price was about $845,000.

A property’s address inside these boundaries does not by itself guarantee a place at Victoria High 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 61 (Greater Victoria) before relying on school access as part of a real-estate decision. Compare other catchments on the Greater Victoria schools page.