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Envigado, Colombia (km16 Alto Las Palmas).
Preschool (K4 to 1st grade), Elementary (2nd to 5th grade), Middle School (6th to 8th grade), High School (9th to 12th grade).
International bilingual school.
The school has a Learning Center with professionals who support students with learning difficulties or who need additional help.
Colombia
The school works with transportation providers Transporte Asia, Las Buseticas, and Orientours; the contract with the transport company is directly with the family.
Academic year covered
- Values shown are for the 2025–26 fee schedule.
Application / Registration fee
- Registration fee (charged once a year in June): COP 4,342,140.
Tuition / Monthly school fee
- Monthly tuition (charged August through May): COP 3,907,926 per month. Billing period shown is monthly for the academic months August to May.
Optional / recurring service fees
- Asopaf (PTA) contribution (optional, charged once a year / per family): COP 270,000.
- Serviexpress (food service) — Lunch (monthly option): COP 330,000 per month.
- Serviexpress (food service) — Snack and Lunch (monthly option): COP 495,000 per month.
- Transportation (monthly, optional):
- Metropolitan area: COP 610,000 per month.
- Alto de Las Palmas route: COP 550,000 per month.
- East area (after toll booth): COP 748,000 per month.
One‑off / annual supplies and uniform costs
- School supplies / school kit (optional; approximate public price, once a year): COP 427,000.
- PE uniforms (physical education; mandatory — one sweat pant, one shirt, one sweater): COP 284,000 (one‑time purchase as listed).
After‑school and extracurricular activities
- Columbus Life (after‑school sports): billed semestrally — COP 559,000 per semester.
- Columbus Life (extracurriculars): semestral payment; maximum reported cost per semester COP 2,509,000.
Billing schedule and payment timing
- Registration fee: once a year (June).
- Regular tuition: billed monthly for the academic months August through May.
- Optional services: food service and transportation billed monthly; Columbus Life activities billed semestrally; Asopaf billed once yearly.
Boarding fees
- The school does not list boarding fees; no boarding program fees are shown in the published fee schedule.
Refund information
- No explicit refund policy or refund amounts for registration, tuition, transport, food service, uniforms, or extracurriculars is provided in the published fee schedule.
Fee payment options
- Invoices and account statements are accessed through the school's invoicing portal for parents. Specific accepted payment methods (for example, which card types, online payments, or bank transfer details) are not listed on the public fee schedule.
Other notes (concise)
- The fee schedule lists the values shown above and indicates the Secretary of Education of Envigado authorizes any annual increases.
Information not present in the published fee table
- The published fee table does not provide a grade‑by‑grade (year group) breakdown or distinct per‑term tuition amounts; only the single monthly tuition figure and other itemized charges are shown. Refund rules and the school's accepted payment methods are not specified in the published fee table.
The Columbus School is a nonprofit, multicultural international bilingual school in Envigado, Colombia, serving students from ages 4 to 18. It blends the IB Primary Years Programme with an American curriculum, with English as the primary language of instruction in most classrooms and daily Spanish. The school organizes learning across four phases: Preschool (K4 to 1st grade), Elementary (K5 to 5th), Intermediate (6th to 8th), and Senior High (9th to 12th). In Elementary, learning follows Common Core language and mathematics standards, while science aligns with NGSS and social studies with AERO standards; grades 6–12 have aligned documents outlining term-by-term learning. The campus spans 21 hectares with facilities including 70 classrooms, eight science labs, two libraries, gyms, fields for soccer and baseball, and outdoor theater. Notable programs include COSMUN, Columbus Life extracurriculars, and student governance through StuCo and National Honor Society. The school is pursuing IB authorization as a candidate school.
