Bureche School

The Bureche School is located at KM 2 Troncal del Caribe, Via Gaira, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia. It sits on a 12-acre open campus just outside Santa Marta. The school is a private pre-K to 12 day school.

Private pre-K to 12 day school. It serves students from 18 months in the early stimulation program, with a HighScope preschool curriculum. It is currently an IB Diploma Programme Candidate School, and students receive both the Colombian high school diploma and the American high school diploma through Cognia accreditation.

Private, pre-K to 12 day school.

Colombia

From August to June (Calendar B).

Application / Registration fee
- A registration (inscripción) fee is required at the start of the admissions process and must be paid to begin an application.

Tuition structure and how fees are charged
- The school uses two distinct charges: matrícula (registration/enrolment) paid once per year, and pensión (tuition) which is the annual fee for educational services. The pensión is treated as an annual amount and is collected in equal monthly instalments.
- The standard tuition billing cycle is ten monthly payments covering the academic year; pensiones are collected in equal monthly sums for the period August through May.

Tuition fees by year group (amounts)
- The school's published public materials set out the fee categories (matrícula and pensión) and additional periodic charges by grade, but no numeric fee table for specific year groups or per-term amounts for the 2026/27 or 2025/26 academic year is publicly posted in the school's published materials that are available. The structure above (matrícula once per year; pensión billed monthly August–May) applies to all grades.

Billing schedule and payment terms
- Matrícula is payable once a year at the time of formalising enrolment or renewal; an extraordinary (late) matrícula carries an additional charge. Pensiones are invoiced and expected to be paid within the school's stated payment deadlines. If an invoice is not paid within five (5) business days after issuance it is considered in default and will incur measures including interest on arrears and temporary blocking of access to the academic portal until payment is regularised. Continued non-payment can lead to reporting to credit bureaux and referral to collections.
- If a student is absent for two or more months for personal reasons and the family wishes to keep the student's place, the parent/guardian must pay 80% of the pension for the period of absence to guarantee the spot. If a family renews matrícula after the academic year has begun and the student starts classes late, the family must pay the full year's costs (full matrícula and full pensiones).

Boarding fees
- Boarding is not applicable: Bureche School operates as a day school (pre-K through Grade 12). No boarding fees apply.

Other compulsory or routine costs
- The following additional fees or periodic charges are specified as part of the school's fee regime:
- Papelería (agenda, certificates, administration of records).
- Bibliobanco and technology charges for loaned textbooks, workbooks and digital subscriptions.
- Standardised testing costs (tests in Spanish and English) including application and analysis fees.
- Pre-ICFES course cost for graduating students (where applicable).
- Rights of degree (ceremony, diplomas and official documentation for graduation).
- Accident insurance (charged by the school).
- Services of the Learning Center (special educational support) and other optional extracurricular or voluntary services (restaurant/cafeteria, transport) which may be charged separately.
- Uniforms are required and specific uniform items are listed by section and activity (daily uniform, physical education uniform, swimwear and ceremony attire); uniform items are an additional family expense.

Refund and withdrawal policy
- If a student withdraws early during the academic year, payments already made for educational costs are not refundable; families must pay all sums invoiced up to the month of withdrawal. No refund is provided for amounts already billed as educational costs.

Late payment consequences and debt recovery
- Late payments incur moratory interest at the maximum permitted rate, temporary suspension of access to the academic portal (Phidias) until the outstanding amounts are paid, written communications regarding overdue status, reporting to credit bureaux after specified notification periods, and potential transfer of outstanding debts to a collections agency with costs for collections charged to the debtor.

Fee payment options
- Families can use the school's Phidias platform and the institution has an online payments entry (Pagos PSE) linked from the school's published resources; payments via PSE (online bank payment) and card payments are supported by the Phidias payment flow commonly used by Colombian schools. Other conventional payment methods (bank transfer/consignation, in-person card or cash payments through the school's administrative office) are used where accepted by the school.

Summary of published numeric information found
- The school's publicly available institutional documents and manuals set out the fee categories, billing months, additional charge types, payment deadlines, and refund and late-payment rules, but do not publish a numeric fee schedule (specific amounts per grade, per term or per academic year) for the 2026/27 academic year or for 2025/26 in the materials accessible publicly. For that reason, numeric values per grade and per term are not included here because they are not published in the school's public materials.

The students are mostly Colombian nationals, with a few international students from other countries.