Designed by Fred Townley and Matheson, the main building was built in 1929 in a Collegiate Gothic style. Construction of the school was commissioned by the Municipality of Point Grey prior to amalgamation with the City of Vancouver. Point Grey Secondary was built originally as a junior high school. The first students began classes in September 1929 and the building served as a junior high school until 1965 when it became a full secondary school. In 1965, a new wing was added with a gym, laboratories and a library. In 2006, Point Grey, in conjunction with the Parks Board, completed a new artificial turf field, and have upgraded the track surrounding it to a rubber surface. Point Grey also offers Advanced Placement courses in Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Computer Science, English, Physics, and Psychology. In 1962 Point Grey was designated a comprehensive secondary school from grade 8 to 12, as it is today. Although the school offered a full range of courses, its focus was essentially academic. Today eighty-five per cent of Point Grey's grade 12's continue on with post-secondary education.
The main building, contains most of the school's classes. It contains a cafeteria, Foods and Sewing Room on the first floor. The Second floor, contains the office, the Library, the Auditorium, Band room, Small Gym, Boys and Girls Gym. Most Math and Art, and Tech classes are on this floor. The third floor, has classes for English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Social Studies. There is also a Science Wing which contains 7 classrooms. There is also a Drama room, Woodworks shop, and a "Math" wing, which no longer houses any math class.
Point Grey Mini School
Founded in 1979, the mini school is a district-wide program that offers students enriched learning and social experiences in addition to the regular curriculum. Unlike the main school, all students who wish to enter the mini school program must write an entrance exam, and out of the many who apply, only twenty-eight individuals are chosen. Students are still considered part of the main school and take elective courses there. The head teacher position is currently shared by Mr. Paul Skarsgard and Mr. Mori Hamilton. The students go on a variety of trips listed below:
Grade Eleven and Twelve: Orientation, Manning Park Ski Trip
Sports
There is a wide variety of extracurricular sports are offered throughout the year such as soccer, volleyball and skiing. ; Fall season Cross country running, girls' field hockey, boys' rugby, boys' premier soccer, Junior soccer, swimming, girls' volleyball, junior and senior boys volleyball ; Winter season Wrestling, snowboard, skis, ice hockey and basketball for boys and girls. ; Spring season Girls' soccer, bantam and juvenile boys volleyball, track and field, girls' rugby, ultimate, softball, golf for boys and girls, tennis and badminton.
In popular culture
The film Superbad was based on the experiences of the film's writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg when they attended Point Grey. The duo's production company, Point Grey Pictures is named after it.
Fox's Lucifer was filmed there: the school doubled as a Korean community centre for the series.
The CW teen drama series Riverdale is also filmed here, on the sports field beside the schools, in the auditorium, and in the hallway.
High school scenes from the movie To All the Boys I've Loved Before and were filmed here.
Other productions include the third adaptation of Mostly Ghostly and TV movies One Night In Doom House starring Corey Fogelmanis
