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Costa Rica, Guanacaste
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Lakeside International School offers quality bilingual programs using English and Spanish as the primary languages of instruction. The curriculum is internationally minded, integrated, and delivered with clear learning outcomes. The Lakeside Learning Community—administrators, teachers, parents, and students—works together to nurture a lifelong passion for learning. The program emphasizes intercultural understanding and preparing students to apply knowledge to real-world challenges.
Arts is one of the eight subject groups in the High School curriculum. The secondary program includes arts as a core discipline alongside language, humanities, sciences, mathematics, physical education, and technology.
The school provides a bilingual English/Spanish program, with intercultural understanding and international-mindedness at the core. The curriculum fosters awareness of one's own national culture while developing an understanding of interdependence and similarities across countries. The environment is multi-cultural, with emphasis on global perspectives.
There is a community service program and an outdoor experience program as part of Lakeside's learning. Asociacion Lakeside coordinates initiatives including a robotics academy, a tutoring center open to the community, and open courses to share knowledge beyond the school.
The school operates a community service program as a formal component of its learning. Asociacion Lakeside leads initiatives such as a robotics academy, a tutoring center for the community, and open courses to engage local residents in learning.
Secondary students complete personal projects and participate in community service initiatives, with university preparation as a key focus. The program encourages students to ask challenging questions, learn how to learn, and develop communication skills to engage with people from different cultures. The eight secondary subject groups provide a broad foundation for leadership and professional readiness.
The campus sits on a 200‑acre aquaculture farm with a dry tropical forest, lake, and an outdoor classroom under a Malinche tree; a hydroponics garden and athletic field support outdoor learning. Early Years learning outcomes emphasize healthy living, independence, exploration and communication. The school has been awarded the ecological blue flag for environmental stewardship.
Lakeside International School in Costa Rica offers a bespoke bilingual program taught in English and Spanish from Early Years through High School. Early Years (ages 3 to 5) use thematically based units across four strands: independence, exploration, communication and healthy living. Primary Years follow an internationally minded, thematically integrated curriculum that applies learning across subjects to everyday life. In Middle Years, the International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC) emphasizes independent thinking, interdependence and active learning around conceptual themes. High School augments the National Curriculum with international focus and eight subject groups, guided by five Areas of Interaction. Personal projects, community service and university preparation are integral to the Secondary Program. The campus sits on a 200-acre aquaculture farm with five buildings and 28 classrooms, including outdoor classroom beneath a Malinche tree and a hydroponics garden. Lakeside Learning Center emphasizes technology, and the school holds an ecological blue flag for environmental stewardship.
