Costa Rica, San Jose
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Facilities were built in 2017 and span 30,000 m2. They include classrooms and technology-equipped science laboratories, computing and robotics laboratories, and a heated, covered swimming pool. The campus features an 11-a-side artificial grass football pitch, a covered sports center, an auditorium, and green spaces. These spaces support both academic learning and extracurricular activities.
Sports facilities include a heated and covered pool, an 11-a-side artificial grass football pitch, and a covered sports center. The complex also encompasses an auditorium and surrounding green areas that support athletic programs. The facilities are designed to support physical education, competitive sports, and related activities.
Academic facilities include technology-equipped science laboratories, computing laboratories, and robotics laboratories. These spaces support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning across the curriculum. The campus layout integrates classrooms with specialized labs to enable hands-on learning.
All activities are programmed to educate in values and foster students' interest in healthy and creative activities, helping develop their physical, intellectual, and artistic talents. The Extracurricular Activities include GSD Sports, GSD Music and Dance, and GSD Culture. GSD Sports fosters sporting activities through the GSD Sports Club, emphasizing companionship, solidarity, cooperation, effort, responsibility, respect, and tolerance. GSD Music and Dance offers a wide variety of musical activities, and GSD Culture supports cultural training to develop skills and stimulate creativity.
GSD International School Costa Rica is part of GSD cooperative network and serves students from 1 to 18 years old, offering Pre‑school to Secondary. It is authorized to deliver the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP), with two DP years, six subjects from the IB groups, and core Theory of Knowledge, CAS and the Extended Essay. The DP groups include Language and Literature (Literature), Language Acquisition (English B), Individuals and Societies (Business Management), Sciences (Chemistry), Mathematics (Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation), and Arts (Music). The school emphasizes technology in learning and aims to foster international inquiry and higher education. Opened in 2018, the campus spans 30,000 m2 and features science, computing and robotics laboratories, a pool, football pitch, a sports center, auditorium and green spaces. Extracurricular activities include GSD Sports, GSD Music and Dance, and GSD Culture. A Mandarin immersion program partners with Greentown Yuhua School Hangzhou and Keystone Academy Beijing.