Southpointe Academy was founded in 2000 in the town of Tsawwassen and re-founded by the parents, following private ownership failure, in 2004.

The school opened with Pre-K to Grade 7 enrolled and now enrolls Kindergarten to Grade 12.

The Mission and Values of the school were agreed after detailed discussions involving all the school’s constituencies held after the re-founding in May and June of 2005.

The school’s motto Ubique et Aeterna (Everywhere and Forever) was inspired by our Mission Statement.

Southpointe Academy was created in the year 2000 in Tsawwassen BC. It was located in leased premises in a strip mall, though parents were promised a new school ‘in two years’. A large billboard was erected on the property known as the Southlands declaring, ‘Future Home of Southpointe Academy’.

By September 2003, no new building having been forthcoming, the school was housed in a motel conversion, a real-estate office conversion, and the original strip mall, all leased from the Century Group.

In August 2004, the school faced closure with debts of $1.75 million. Happily, a group of committed parents formed a new non-profit Society and obtained the rights to the school name. Their superhuman efforts, together with the commitment and loyalty of the school’s faculty and staff, kept the school alive.

By August 2005, the debt had been eliminated and the school was on a sound financial footing. It has never been in debt since that time, nor has it ever used its credit line.
Since September 2005, the school has grown in size, performance and stature: its graduates grace the halls of many universities, including The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, The University of Victoria, McGill University, The University of Toronto, The University of Western Ontario, The University of Calgary, Queen’s University, The University of Waterloo, Trinity Western University, Dalhousie University, Duke University, The University of Washington, Thomson Rivers University, Emily Carr University, The University of Northern British Columbia, Bond University, Mount Allison University, and Harvard University; there are athletic championship banners adorning the hallways; music certificates from national band championships have their honoured place in the band room; the students are renowned for their great support of such charitable causes as the Terry Fox Foundation, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Breast Cancer Foundation, Delta Assist and Covenant House; our global education program enables our students to experience other countries –China, France, Spain, New Zealand –both by visiting them and receiving guests from them, while our Project Discover program develops self-reliance, decision-making, leadership and respect for our natural environment.

Currently, we are building a new 68,000 square foot school for occupation in January 2012.