The province of British Columbia in Canada is divided into 60 school districts which administer publicly funded education until the end of grade 12 in local areas or, in the case of francophone education, across the province.
Lake Country Many school districts were in existence prior to British Columbia joining Canada in 1871.
In 1946, the Ministry of Education rearranged the province's 650 school districts into 74, giving each a number and a name.
[1] The school districts were numbered geographically starting in the southeast corner and proceeding in a counter-clockwise pattern.
The most recent changes occurred in April 1996 with the restructuring and reduction in the number of school districts from 74 to 57.