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Number of students |
530 |
Number of nationalities represented in the school |
40 |
Max. number of students per class |
20 |
Does the school employ teaching assistants? |
Yes |
Additional language classes offered by the school |
Spanish, French |
School bus service available |
Yes |
School start time |
8:15 |
School finish time |
14:45 |
Extracurricular activities or clubs offered |
Art, athletics, ballet, fencing, hockey, Italian, volleyball, music making, rock climbing, soccer, toy making. yoga. |
School provided lunches |
Yes |
Sports facilities at the school |
Soccer field, basketball court, gymnasium. |
Sports teams or sport competitions available for students |
Yes |
Qualities and characteristics best defining the school |
The European School was founded in 1989 by Anne Aronson who longed to see in her adopted country, Costa Rica, a school emphasizing the Liberal Arts and the Humanities such as she had known during her formative years in France and in her university education at the Sorbonne in Paris. |
Teaching approach of the school |
The school offers an innovative literature-based educational program that recognizes each student as an entire being with different gifts and limitations, needs and abilities, and hope for the future. |