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Academia Panamá Para El Futuro

Panama, Panama City

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The school at a glance
Instructs in Spanish, English
Fees Fees not listed
Ages Not listed
Pupil numbers 141
Type Co-educational (boarding)
Opened 2020
Bus Service No
Availability Not shared by this school
Academic offering
Curriculum IB (DP), Bespoke Curriculum
Taught languages English, Spanish
Strengths STEM, Languages
Stages Secondary School, Senior Secondary School
Introduction

Academia Panamá para el Futuro is official and experimental public center located in Ciudad del Saber, Edificio 105, Clayton, Ancón, Panama. It offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for secondary education in a bilingual English–Spanish setting. The program emphasizes STEM and aligns with international standards, while English is taught as a second language to support diverse university pathways. Instruction is bilingual, enabling students to study IB subjects in either language. It has been IB World School since July 20, 2022 and prepares students for admission to universities worldwide. It combines the IB DP with an experimental framework. IB subjects include Biology; English Ab Initio; Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation; Physics; History; Spanish A: Language and Literature; Theory of Knowledge. First graduation (2022–2023) included 79 graduates earning Bachillerato en Ciencias and the IB Diploma; the 2023 cohort had 37 IB Diploma recipients, and a later graduation included 18 IB Diploma earners.

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Edificio 105, Ciudad del Saber, Clayton, Corregimiento de Ancón, Ciudad y Provincia de Panamá

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The Essentials

Academia Panamá Para El Futuro has 141 pupils, instruction in Spanish, English.

Location
Located in Ciudad del Saber, Ancón, Panama. The Ciudad del Saber complex is in the Panama City area. The campus is within the Ciudad del Saber complex.

Stages
Secondary education; high school level with bilingual International Baccalaureate program. Language of instruction is English and Spanish.

Type
Public, coeducational, official and experimental.

Country affiliation
Panama
Diving Deeper
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Fees
Overview of fees
- Academia Panamá Para El Futuro is a state (public) secondary academy and does not charge tuition for enrolled students; education is provided free of charge.

Application fees
- There is no application fee for admission into the academy. Admissions and participation are part of a publicly funded program; families are not charged an entrance or registration fee.

Tuition fees by year group (per term / per year)
- All year groups offered at the academy (upper secondary / media levels) have no tuition charges. Tuition per term and per academic year for all cohorts is USD 0.00.

Billing schedule and payment terms
- There is no billing schedule for tuition or termly school fees because the academy does not bill families for tuition. Public funding and contracted services cover operational costs. Payments for contracted services (for example, facility rentals or catering) are handled through government procurement and institutional contracts rather than family billing.

Boarding fees
- The academy operates with boarding (internado) provisions for selected students and does not charge boarding fees to the students enrolled in the program. Boarding-related services such as on‑site accommodation and student meals are provided under government/partner funding and contracted suppliers.

Other costs and typical ancillary expenses
- School-provided items: The program includes benefits for students such as accommodation, food provisions, and the provision of computing equipment for students (these are provided as part of the academy program).
- Family‑borne costs: Families may still be responsible for incidental personal expenses not covered by the program (for example: personal toiletries, optional extracurricular activities outside the standard program, travel to and from the academy when not covered by the program). Standard school uniform costs, where applicable for public-school students, are ordinarily the family's responsibility unless explicitly provided for in a specific program agreement. (No compulsory tuition or boarding charges are assessed to families.)

Refund information
- As there is no tuition or application fee charged to families, formal refund policies for tuition/payment to families are not applicable. Refund processes for any family-paid optional services (if any) would depend on the specific service provider or contract under which a fee was paid.

Fee payment options
- Because the academy does not require tuition or boarding payments from families, there are no family-facing payment methods (credit card, bank transfer, etc.) required for tuition or boarding. Payments related to operational contracts (facility rental, catering, suppliers) are processed through public procurement and government or partner-payment mechanisms.

Notes for parents
- The academy is a publicly funded program focused on providing free, bilingual, upper‑secondary education with boarding and student support services for selected students. Parents should plan only for incidental personal expenses (uniforms, personal supplies, travel) unless otherwise informed in writing by the academy about a specific optional charge.
Academics

Academia Panamá Para El Futuro teaches IB (DP), Bespoke Curriculum.

Curriculum
The Academia Bilingüe Panamá para el Futuro offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP) for secondary education. It is an official and experimental public center located in Ciudad del Saber, Ancf3n, Panama. The program emphasizes STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) with international standards and the English language as a second language. Instruction is bilingual in English and Spanish. The school prepares students for admission to universities in Panama and around the world. First graduation (2022-2023) included 79 graduates who earned Bachillerato en Ciencias and the IB Diploma; second graduation (2023) included 37 graduates earning the IB Diploma; third graduation included 18 graduates earning the IB Diploma.

Exam Results
First promotion (2022-2023) graduated 79 students with Bachillerato en Ciencias and the IB Diploma. The second promotion (2023) graduated 37 students with the IB Diploma. The third promotion graduated 18 students with the IB Diploma. The ABPF is the only public bilingual IB Diploma program in Panama.

Higher Education Progression
Graduates pursue higher education at universities in Panama and abroad, including institutions in Argentina and Honduras. The program enables entry to universities worldwide, with graduates accessing top national and international universities.

Gifted and Talented
The program targets high-achieving Panamanian students from across the country and selects participants through a public convocation process with rigorous academic testing. This approach is designed to develop leaders with a global perspective who excel in STEM and the IB Diploma pathway.
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Admissions

Admissions
1. The Academia Panama para el Futuro is created to provide free education and equal opportunities. It aligns with national interests and sustainable development goals and reflects global advances. It guarantees a quality, inclusive, and equitable education system that forms an integral citizen with high competencies. 2. The main objectives of the program are to offer students from low-resource backgrounds who have high academic performance and socioemotional and civic competencies an excellent and comprehensive education. The goal is for them to graduate from upper secondary with international quality standards. The program seeks to strengthen personal, academic, technological, scientific, artistic, and athletic competencies. It also aims to develop Academia Panama para el Futuro as an official mid-level educational institution with strong academic, organizational, and management quality to improve public education, and to form a network of centers of excellence that bring together a greater number of high-talent youths under a policy of equity, inclusion, and interculturality. 3. The program will benefit official presecondary students to study Upper Secondary Education with the Bachelor of Science and, simultaneously, the International Baccalaureate. They will receive intensive English language preparatory courses. The academy will provide boarding, meals, and computing equipment, and students will study at the academy located in Ciudad del Saber (City of Knowledge). 4. A convenio with Ciudad del Saber has been established, and the criteria for selecting preselected students to participate in the selection process have been analyzed, with the first 90 students entering in the 2020 academic year.
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