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Cascade Christian School
About Cascade Christian School
An owner-run school, near the Cottonwood and Chilliwack Mall cluster.
This part of the directory is not the public school district. It covers the other side of education in Chilliwack: independent and faith-based schools, tutoring, music and language teaching, driving instruction and trades training. Cascade Christian School belongs to the first of those groups, and independent faith schooling has deeper roots here than in most BC cities of this size, largely through the Mennonite and Reformed communities that settled Yarrow and Greendale. Yarrow began with twelve Mennonite families arriving in February 1928, on ground drained from Sumas Lake a few years earlier when the Vedder Canal was cut.
The listing places the school in Sardis, near the Cottonwood Centre and Chilliwack Mall cluster, with a postal code and no street address. That is a busy pocket of the city to sit in, and the surrounding streets there are retail rather than residential. Drop-off and pick-up therefore share the road with shopping traffic. Sardis is also the middle of the city rather than an edge of it, and an independent school draws from a wider area than a catchment school does, so a central address is a practical advantage.
Beyond the neighbourhood and the postal code, this entry holds nothing. No telephone, no website, no street address. For a school that is a significant gap, since the questions a parent actually has, which grades are offered, what admission involves, what it costs, what the school's religious character means day to day, cannot be answered from a directory entry under any circumstances. Those need a conversation with the school itself.
The south end of Chilliwack is the city's genuine education district, with the University of the Fraser Valley campus, the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre and a Justice Institute of BC campus at Canada Education Park, but this address is north of all of that, in the retail middle.
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