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Shawnigan Lake, BC, Canada
School Type: Co-Ed
Boarding Grades: 8 to 12
Enrollment: 450
Annual Boarding Tuition: $36,000
Annual Day Tuition: N/A
Student to Teacher Ratio: 9:1
School Focus: College Prep
Average Class Size: 15
% Students on Financial Aid: 20% to 25%
Endowment Size: N/A
Accommodates ADHD Students: No
School Supports LD: No
School Supports ESL: No
Year Founded: 1916
School Type: Co-Ed
Boarding Grades: 8 to 12
Enrollment: 450
Annual Boarding Tuition: $36,000
Annual Day Tuition: N/A
Student to Teacher Ratio: 9:1
School Focus: College Prep
Average Class Size: 15
% Students on Financial Aid: 20% to 25%
Endowment Size: N/A
Accommodates ADHD Students: No
School Supports LD: No
School Supports ESL: No
Year Founded: 1916
Shawnigan Lake School
Shawnigan Lake School Co-Ed Boarding Information:
A Difference of Character
Shawnigan Lake School provides everything students require to pursue personal excellence. Our teachers will inspire you to find your intellectual passions. Our coaches will push you to discover your physical resources. Our Fine Arts instructors will invite you to explore your inherent creativity. In this we are like many other fine schools.
But that´s not enough.
We believe in character. People admire many things in others, but it’s character they remember. We believe character is the difference between a good school and a great one. The Shawnigan difference is the difference of character.
As a society, we have a tendency to undermine our young people by doubting their abilities to draw on their inner strengths. At Shawnigan it is very much a part of our mandate to develop the strengths of each individual in whatever way we can, for this inner strength is the foundation of character. Our message is always the same—“Develop your strength; we will help you, encourage you, remind you, hold you to your word, test you, stretch you and support you. You have to be strong enough to believe in yourself, to believe in your ability to confront any challenge. You won’t win all the time, but you must confront every challenge.”
Education should strive to develop the capacities of young people to deal with the multitude of stimuli and information with which their world will assail them, in thoughtful and measured ways—through character.
Shawnigan will not shrink from its part, whether it be in the classroom, the residence, the corridor or the Chapel. The true joy must surely come from a wise approach to life. From character.
Our Program
Shawnigan is about opportunity, commitment, and discovery. Serious students will enjoy the challenge, the knowledge, the laughter, and the freedom of our classrooms. You can find superb teachers in every school, but the faculty at Shawnigan provides a combination of camaraderie, respect, knowledge, skill and commitment few schools can match.
Last year's graduates are studying this year at the University of Toronto, Queens, McGill, Cambridge University, Harvard, UBC, and so on, but their gratitude to their former teachers does not center solely around academic preparation. They appreciate the care Shawnigan people took in helping them to mature and to discover.
For the serious athlete, we have both the facilities and the coaches to develop your skills to the next level -- and the next, and the next. We have a long history of seeing Shawnigan athletes prepare themselves to take on the challenges of the finest post-secondary sports programs.
For the artist, we have the studios and the instruction to help you grow in your craft and deepen your sense of artistry. We regularly graduate students who find places in leading art school in North America and abroad.
