Current School Profile
Vancouver Technical is the third largest secondary school in Vancouver after Churchill and Killarney and is attended by over 1700 students. The population is ethnically diverse; over fifty-two languages are spoken in students’ homes. This diversity was noted by Globe and Mail columnist Stephen Hume, who described Vancouver Technical as “one of the most ethnically diverse schools in Canada” (Globe and Mail, December 2003). Van Tech is also home to the second-largest population of First Nations students in Vancouver. The school’s efforts to meet the needs of its diverse population led the Canadian Education Association to place it on its 1995 list of twenty-five exemplary Canadian schools. Van Tech has a staff of approximately 130 and the administrative staff consists of a principal and two vice-principals. One famous tradition of VanTech is the TECHNIVAL. It is similar to a carnival however, it is only open to VanTech students.
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