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Costa Rica, San Jose
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The Liceo Franco-Costaricense provides on-site dining, lodging, and transportation services, along with dedicated learning resources. Grill & Fresh runs the school dining service, with a virtual wallet called G&F Pay used to pay for meals. The school offers lodging via host families and a drops-off option for faster morning arrivals. The school's transportation is provided by Transportistas Independientes Franco F.C.S. SA, offering door-to-door service across 25 routes to San José, Heredia, and Cartago, with a transport assistant for younger students. The Liceo maintains two libraries: a Library and Documentation Center (BCD) for primary and a Center of Documentation and Information (CDI) for secondary, supporting reading, research, and information literacy.
The Liceo Franco-Costaricien offers a bilingual curriculum combining the French national program with the Costa Rican educational system, providing a comprehensive education recognized in both countries and internationally. The pedagogy is project-based, with interdisciplinary projects across sciences, arts, music, and the environment to foster creativity, critical thinking, cooperation, and language learning. The Liceo operates two libraries: the Library and Documentation Center (BCD) for primary and the Center of Documentation and Information (CDI) for secondary. The CDI provides a wide range of documentary and digital resources to support research and projects, supervised by a teacher-librarian; the BCD offers a broad selection of age-appropriate books and activities to cultivate reading and inquiry.
The Franco-Costaricense offers a variety of after-school clubs from TPS to Première, including sports, artistic workshops, theatre, robotics, chess, and music. Primary students participate in clubs spanning sports, arts, theatre, robotics, chess, and music; these activities occur after school and support talent development and socialization in a playful yet educational setting. Clubs include football, art, theatre, and chess, among others, promoting personal development and teamwork outside regular class time. These after-school activities complement the bilingual curriculum and encourage student leadership and curiosity.
Located in Tres Ríos near San José, Lycée Franco-Costaricien is a bilingual French international school for ages 2 to 18. It is homologated by the French Ministry of National Education and AEFE and is managed in tripartite collaboration with the Costa Rican Ministry of Public Education (MEP) and the AFCE. The school offers a cross-border curriculum that combines the French national program with the Costa Rican system, from Maternelle to Terminale, and enables a double diploma: the Costa Rican baccalaureate and the French baccalaureate. Diplomas include the Diplôme National du Brevet (DBND), the Baccalauréat, Costa Rican diplomas, and DELF–DALF. The Terminale year includes a 20‑minute oral exam and orientation toward higher education with personalized guidance via Parcoursup France. The American Section strengthens English and US history and literature and supports the International French Baccalaureate (BFI). The campus offers on-site dining (Grill & Fresh), lodging with host families, and door-to-door transport across 25 routes. Two libraries—the BCD for primary and the CDI for secondary—support reading and research, with project-based learning across sciences, arts, music and the environment.
