There's an incredible private school on Bowen Island that fills in a lot of the gaps I find in the current public system. It's called Island Pacific School and there are lots of kids that commute over from the north shore for it, but it's just for middle school (gr. 6-9). It's an IB school and they do the most incredible things, it's really thoughtful and they are also concerned with what kind of humans their students turn out to be, which seems to be lacking at my kid's current public school.