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Berkeley Academy is moving to a state-of-the-art campus. Construction plans describe a fully-equipped sports gymnasium, a soccer pitch with official regulation dimensions, and a semi-Olympic swimming pool. The campus will include an amphitheater, two mini-auditoriums, a large auditorium, a student-faculty cafeteria, four student-research laboratories, four library learning resource centers, an art studio, a game hall-arcade, an activity center, a bell tower, and 60 classrooms. The campus decoration is designed to rival most elite U.S. universities.
Construction plans include a fully-equipped sports gymnasium, a soccer pitch with official regulation dimensions, and a semi-Olympic swimming pool. The campus also features an amphitheater and multiple auditoria, supporting a broad campus life experience that complements athletic programs.
The campus includes four student-research laboratories. It also features four library learning resource centers and an art studio. There is a game hall-arcade, an activity center, a bell tower, and 60 classrooms.
Lion's Club Reading Program supports independent reading across classroom, home, and school. The program aims for 30 books per semester. Creative Movement and Art and Production P.B.L. will be implemented in the Elementary Division to allow expression through performativity, art, dance, singing and music. Senior Theses is a Grade 12 graduation requirement: a 15-page research paper (20 pages for honors) with abstract, overview, quantitative and qualitative analyses, literature review, and coda, supervised by Berkeley Academy high school faculty and administrators and defended before graduation.
Berkeley Academy Costa Rica is a private K–12 international school in Santa Ana, established in 2013. It delivers a U.S.-based high school program alongside the Costa Rican National Baccalaureate, awarding diplomas for each track. Instruction is English for U.S. required courses and Spanish for Costa Rican requirements, following a North American two-semester calendar. The curriculum includes the U.S. High School program grounded in UC/CSU A-G Requirements and more than 25 AP courses plus 20 Honors courses, with exams such as AP, PSAT variants, and the SAT. The school promotes bilingualism and multicultural perspectives, supported by comprehensive college counseling. A forthcoming state-of-the-art campus will feature a fully-equipped gym, a regulation soccer pitch, a semi-Olympic pool, an amphitheater, multiple auditoria, four student-research laboratories, four library centers, an art studio, and 60 classrooms. A Senior Thesis in Grade 12 (15 pages, 20 pages for honors) is required, defended under faculty supervision, along with internships and a Global Service program.
