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La Paz Community School

La Paz Community School was founded in 2007 in order to address socio-cultural gaps prevalent in a region struggling to cope with the balance between an agricultural and tourist economy. In additon to bringing the community together and raising up the less priveledged, we are grooming the enviromental consciousness of the next generation. Today, operating at a capacity of approximately 330 students from preschool to 12th grade, 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 enviromentally responsible global leaders.  This is accomplished through experiential and hands on curricular and extra-curricular initiatives such as the eco brick project, Guanacaste Wildlife Monitoring Club, raising money for monkey bridges, regular beach clean ups, water bottle refill stations, hosting weekly famers' markets, using solar panels, two seperate flocks of chickens that the children raise, and an heap of other best practices. The enviromental impact is taken into consideration at every level and from every aspect. One of our middle school students recently ga.

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Brasilito Guanacaste
Website
lapazschool.org
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