Costa Rica, San Jose
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Berkeley Academy Costa Rica is accredited by the Costa Rican Ministry of Education and is a member of College Board, Asociacion de Centros Educativos Privados, and the International Council on Multicultural Diversity. It holds College Board institutional membership (since 2016) and is listed with a College Board school code.
From 2015–2024 Berkeley Academy students have earned numerous AP-related honors, including AP Perfect Score, AP International Diploma recipients, and multiple AP Scholars with Distinction/Honor; university acceptances to a wide range of institutions are documented in the school profile.
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.