La Paz Community School

La Paz Community School was founded in 2007 to address socio-cultural gaps prevalent in a region struggling to cope with the balance between an agricultural and tourist economy.

Today, operating at a capacity of approximately 620 students from Early Childhood to 12th grade across two different campuses, La Paz offers a forward-thinking model of education. Here, students from Costa Rica and all over the world join together to learn how to be creative, multilingual, compassionate, and responsible global leaders while engaging in authentic learning experiences focused heavily on developing a student’s sense of place in the world. This is accomplished through experiential and hands-on curricular and extracurricular initiatives.

By integrating talented youth from the underprivileged, the middle class, and the upper-class sectors of rural Latin America, the school transforms student differences into strengths that foment rich and meaningful dialogue and experiences at all grade levels, thus preparing students to effectively confront global challenges.

As an authorized IB World School, La Paz exposes students to a rigorous and meaningful academic program that is fundamentally rooted in the La Paz Peace Practices and the IB community profile. Through paradigm-challenging intercultural discourse, La Paz Community School students are equipped to fundamentally transform their lives, communities, nations, and eventually the world, into a better place.