Opening: September 2025 | 145 Secord Drive NW | Capacity: 905 | Principal: Krista MacGregor
Click here to visit the St. Josephine Bakhita Catholic Elementary/Junior High School website!
Updated March 4, 2025
Pre-Enrolment for the 2025-2026 School Year
Pre-enrolment opens on February 3, 2025. Current ECSD students will share their plans through the pre-enrolment process. Students new to the Division will be able to apply online by visiting ecsd.net/register.
St. Josephine Bakhita Attendance Boundary
Edmonton Catholic Schools is pleased to share the attendance boundary for St. Josephine Bakhita Catholic Elementary/Junior High School.
Set to open in September 2025 in the community of Secord in West Edmonton, the school will serve students from the Secord and Rosenthal neighbourhoods.
Edmonton Catholic Schools is pleased to inform you that if you live in Secord or Rosenthal, are in Grade 5 to 9, and currently attend Bishop David Motiuk Catholic Elementary/Junior High School, you do not have to change schools. However, please note that busing will not be provided. Additionally, your sibling may also attend Bishop David Motiuk School with you.
Attendance Area Map for St. Josephine Bakhita
What We Heard
In November 2024, ECSD shared an online presentation with details about the proposed attendance boundary for St. Josephine Bakhita Catholic Elementary/Junior High School and asked families to share their thoughts through an online survey.
ECSD used your feedback to inform an attendance boundary decision that:
- allows as many resident students as possible to attend a school close to home
- ensures the school has room for resident students as the community grows
Thank you for providing your feedback. It was considered throughout the decision-making process. You can find a summary of what we received in this What We Heard Report.
2025-2026 School Year
For the 2025-2026 school year, St. Josephine Bakhita Catholic Elementary/Junior High School will open with Grades Kindergarten to Grade 9.
St. Josephine Bakhita School Programming
Timetables, course offerings, and extracurricular offerings will be determined by the school administration. Through the pre-enrolment process, many operational decisions will be made after registrations are processed and staffing is completed.
Beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, St. Josephine Bakhita Catholic Elementary/Junior High School will be offering regular programming for both elementary and Junior High.
Transportation to School
To learn more about transportation services, please visit ecsd.net/apply-for-transportation
Namesake
St. Josephine Bakhita was born in 1868 in the village of Olgossa, Darfur (Sudan). As a child, she was kidnapped by slave traders and was given the name Bakhita which means “lucky” or “fortunate." She endured the horrors of slavery before she attained freedom in Italy. There, Josephine became a nun with the Canossian Daughters of Charity and lived and worked with them for 45 years.
Pope John Paul II shared the following words when he beatified Sister Josephine Bakhita in 1992:
“Josephine Bakhita, in her humility and total abandonment in God, teaches us not only to work and to pray but, above all, to trust. From her painful experiences, she had learned, with God's grace, to have complete trust in him, who is present always and everywhere, and therefore to be constantly and with everyone good and generous.”
The Feast Day for St. Josephine Bakhita is February 8, and she is the patron saint of Sudan and human trafficking survivors.
Construction Updates
| Construction Updates | |
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| STAGE: | UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
| DEVELOPER: | ALBERTA INFRASTRUCTURE |
| CONTRACTOR: | AMAN BUILDERS |
| ARCHITECT: | ACI ARCHITECTS INC. |
More Information
You can also contact Educational Planning at 780-441-6010 or ecsdplanning@ecsd.net. Transportation inquiries may be directed to 780-441-6078 or transportationservices@ecsd.net.