Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders. WIC has an exceptional range of advanced education programs for our students. We serve grades 7-12 students in a private day school setting. welcome you to West Island College where relationships are central, and our community truly sets us apart. We strive to get to know each student and to provide a safe, caring, and inclusive school community where students can find their voice, discover their passions, take risks in their learning, be involved in the life of the College, and reach their full potential. This is a place where students can dream, explore, thrive, and make lifelong friends.
Our purpose, promise, and commitments guide everything that we do at West Island College. We believe in educating young people to be brave, confident, empathetic, and compassionate individuals who are engaged in the world around them and want to make a difference. We recognize the capability that exists within each student, and offer a myriad of enriched learning opportunities within and outside of the classroom, that inspires students to be curious, creative and strives for excellence in all that they do.
Our master teachers inspire, support, and challenge students to meet high standards and to fulfill our promise to imagine and create our best selves and futures. We are committed to developing in students the knowledge, skills, and attributes to be equipped and successful for post-secondary studies and beyond. Our goal is to prepare students to be contributing global citizens of society and to be future leaders.
At West Island College, we focus on values, character education, leadership, creativity, and developing the whole student while also providing rigorous academics, unparalleled real-world learning opportunities, as well as a myriad of athletic and co-curricular programs.
We encourage you to explore our website and discover what makes West Island College such a wonderful place to work, learn, play. Come and visit us. You will soon discover our remarkable students, our outstanding faculty who inspire, support, and challenge our students to be the best that they can be, and our exemplary alumni who remain connected to the College and are making a difference in the world every day.
WIC students are ready for the challenges and opportunities life presents them. They grow strong, self-assured, and motivated by each WIC experience. Through academic rigor and a supportive environment, our students become resilient problem-solvers who believe they can, and will achieve what they set out to do.
Together WIC students and faculty build a powerful culture of creativity that is without boundaries. We are critical thinkers who challenge ideas, pave new paths and encourage inventiveness whenever possible. As a close-knit community, we know and care about each other. We foster an environment where students can feel supported while building their futures.
A premier, independent, post-secondary preparatory school located in the southeast quadrant of the City of Calgary, we are a co-educational, bilingual day school for high achieving students. Since our founding in 1982, we have attained a reputation for nurturing outstanding academic achievements, inspiring community service, and catering to the personal development of each student. Additionally, students also come from Okotoks, Bragg Creek, and Cochrane.
At WIC, incredible opportunities happen every day in an environment where learning is tailored to each student where relationships are nurtured through effective teamwork and collaboration, and where students are immersed in a community of enthusiastic learners. WIC emphasizes respect, responsibility, and citizenship. We believe that inspiring our students to pursue excellence in academics, leadership, athletics and global awareness prepares them for success in the future.
In addition to exceptional teachers and staff, an Advanced Placement Program, Fine Arts Certificate, outstanding athletics, small class sizes, and an extensive co-curricular program with leadership opportunities, WIC offers courses in French (Immersion or Second Language)and Spanish. These are just some of the incredible advantages of being a WIC student.
Through WIC’s International Studies program, authentic student leadership opportunities, Outdoor Education, and WIC’s Business, Health Sciences, Engineering, and Liberal Arts Institutes, students are challenged to go beyond their comfort zones and discover what experiential learning means. The current enrollment is 550 students in small class sizes from Grades 7 to 12. Historically, between 98 to 100 percent of WIC graduates transition to post-secondary education.
Students are selected to attend WIC based on their performance on standardized entrance tests where average intellectual potential and skill acquisition, as a minimum, must be demonstrated. In addition, students must display social maturity commensurate with their age at the time of testing. This maturity is evaluated during a personal interview and through guided letters of reference.
