Banff Community High School offers an academic program to meet the needs of all students in grades 7 through 12. The program meets the requirements of Alberta Education and affords all students the opportunity to graduate from B.C.H.S. and receive an Alberta High School Diploma or Certificate of Achievement.

 B.C.H.S. Enrolment as of September 2009

     Grade 7         55

     Grade 8          43

     Grade 9          53

     Grade 10        68

     Grade 11        55    

     Grade 12        54

     Total              328

Canadian Rockies Public Schools has a divisional professional development focus of teachers collaborating in teams focused on developing and implementing goals aimed at improving student learning. This culture of professional sharing is referred to as a Professional Learning Community. All members of the school community are learners and focused on improving learning and instruction. Banff Community High School’s class schedule starts at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday to facilitate teachers meeting in their teams for an hour prior to students arriving. Please check the student handbook for the class schedule.

B.C.H.S. offers high school students all of the required courses and a select number of  optional courses required to receive an Alberta High School Diploma. In cases where there is a very small enrolment, courses may be offered through the Canadian Rockies Outreach School or Alberta Distance Learning.

 The majority of core courses are semestered with one course each year scheduled opposite of Instrumental Music offered for the full year. Physical Education at the grade 10 level also runs all year opposite  Career and Life Management for one semester. Semestered 5 credit courses meet six times per week and full year and 3 credit courses meet three times.

The Teacher Advisor Group (T.A.G.) is an important part of the B.C.H.S. culture. All students are enrolled with an advisor for 3 years, 7-9 and a new advisor in grades 10-12.

 The grade 7 program, which is designed to ease the transition from elementary school to high school, exposes all students to the same list of core and complimentary courses. The courses afforded are: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education and Health, Instrumental Music, French, Art, Construction and Foods.  

In grades 8 and 9 students must take English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, French and Physical Education. Students choose three complimentary courses per year from a list that includes, Outdoor Education, Music, Art, Foods, Communication Technology and Construction.

 For the 2009-2010 school year, as in the past year, grade 9 Language Arts and Mathematics classes are split by gender. The gender split, its instructional strategies and collected data, are part of a project by one of the B.C.H.S. Profession Learning Teams.