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Guildford Park Secondary School

high school in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ5615839 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guildford Park Secondary School is a grade 8 through 12 secondary school in Surrey, British Columbia. It is located just west of the Port Mann Bridge and Guildford Town Centre, in a suburban inner-city community close to Holly Park. The school has over 1400 students from all over the world that speak more than 70 different languages.

Clubs

Guildford Park Secondary School offers more than 20 clubs, including Garden Club, Art Club, and more.

Programs

After School Tutoring

Guildford Park Secondary School has an after-school tutoring program that is free for the students. Students can receive tutoring on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday between 2:45 and 4:15 pm in the library. Senior Students can also apply to be tutors and help other students. Students who are tutors are paid for their help and receive their payment in a scholarship at the end of the year.

Aboriginal Student Support

Guildford Park Secondary has an Aboriginal Student Support Team which includes an Aboriginal Support Teacher, two Aboriginal Youth Care Workers, a Counsellor, and a Vice-Principal. The team provides academic, emotional-social, and cultural support for Aboriginal students.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Guildford Park Secondary School” as high school in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1400—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984. The account is most persuasive where Guildford, Park and Secondary can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as high school in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5615839. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1400.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Guildford Park Secondary School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Guildford Park Secondary School primary sources, Guildford Park Secondary School archive and Guildford research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Guildford Park Secondary School”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Guildford Park Secondary School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.