Saint Mary High School

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Saint Mary High School is a private high school located in Guachipelin, Costa Rica.

This school was founded in 1979. It is considered to be a bilingual school, which includes classes in English and Spanish. It contains grades 7th-11th, which is considered high school in Costa Rica. Its main rival is Royal High School, located from a short distance from Saint Mary's.

1 Demographics
2 Scheduling
3 Extracurricular
4 References

[edit] Demographics

The student population is 93% Latino, 5% Cauacasian, 1% Black and 1% Other.

[edit] Scheduling

The school runs on a rotating five-day schedule with periods lasting about 40 minutes each. The grades are divided into two groups of roughly 20 students in each. These groups rotate throught the periods together and have different scedules for every day of the week. Its passing periods between classes are three minutes each. The school has two breaks, which are ten minutes each, and a thirty minute lunch. The year is divided into trimesters and have three weeks of vacation in July and two months and a half in December.

[edit] Extracurricular

The school has a lot of extra curricular activities such as: soccer(boys and girls), basketball, chess, and band.

Also the school has elective classes which are some of the activities mentioned above but are taken as a normal course on your class scedule. Some of these classes include: guitar, community service, art, advanced French, leadership, chocolate shop, physical training, teamwork, ceramics, and computers.