May 30, 2025 – Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times

Langley’s next new school site has been purchased, and it’s in the southwest corner of the fast-growing Willoughby neighbourhood, provincial and local officials announced on Friday, May 30.

The new school will be built at 198B Street and 74 Avenue in the Southwest Latimer area. Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma visited Langley Secondary (LSS), where construction has started on a separate 12-classroom expansion, to announce the land purchase.

“These investments will ensure that as Langley continues to grow, students are supported with modern and inspiring spaces to learn for years to come,” Ma said.

Ma also spoke about a number of other major school expansions or new schools underway in Abbotsford, Comox, West Kelowna, Nanaimo, and Prince Rupert.

Three of the expansions on her list are in Langley. In addition to LSS’s new addition, which has a 300-student capacity, prefabricated additions to Nicomekl Elemetnary and Lynn Fripps Elementary are underway or about to be built, with the Nicomekl project slated to open this fall. They’re the second and third prefab additions to Langley schools, after Richard Bulpitt Elementary was in the first wave of a series of such projects, with its classrooms opening last September.

Langley School Board Chair Candy Ashdown also mentioned the new Josette Dandurand Elementary, which is under construction in the 20100 block of 82 Avenue, and will open this fall.

“All of these projects are critical steps in helping release the enrolment pressures in our fast-growing school district,” Ashdown said. “As many of you know, here in Langley, we welcome new families into our schools every day. We know our staff, students, and families benefit from these projects now and in the future.”

The expansion at LSS is underway now, and was originally expected to wrap up this winter, in late 2025 or early 2026.

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