Vancouver School Board
public school district in British Columbia, Canada
The Vancouver School Board (VSB), officially the Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver), is a school district based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A board of nine elected trustees governs this school district that serves the city of Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands.
Board of education
The Vancouver Board of Education is composed of nine elected trustees and a non-voting student trustee. Trustees of the Vancouver School Board are elected under an at-large system.
Current board composition
The elected members of the current board were elected during the 2022 Vancouver municipal election. The board currently consists of the following trustees.
Past composition
VSB trustee elections took place during municipal elections in British Columbia. Since 2014, officials including school board trustees have been elected to four-year terms. Between 1990 and 2011, municipal official were elected to three-year terms.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1189835. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2014, 1990 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vancouver School Board” 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.