Colegio La Salle La Colina

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Colegio La Salle La Colina is a school located in Caracas, Venezuela, part of the Lasallian educational institutions and ran by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Founded in 1944, this school provides education for pupils from the age of 4 until they graduate in the Venezuelan standard educations system (Bachillerato) at the age of 17-18, ready to join any university in or outside Venezuela.

The school is privately funded by the students, each paying a monthly fee to attend and it is run as a not-for-profit business. The school has always been regarded as one of the best schools in the Caracas among many other religious and private schools in the city which tend to cater for the middle and high class population looking for a better and more reliable education that the available through the state-run schools.

[edit] Infrastructure

It has a vast infrastructure to cater for its -almost- 2,000 students. In a campus-style site, the school has over 6 buildings housing the classrooms, dorms for the Brothers of the Christian Schools who serve as teachers and run the school, labs, administrative quarters, restaurants, shops, church able to accommodate all its students inside; plus many other sports and recreation areas which include: 2 football (soccer) grounds, 2 baseball grounds, over 10 multi-purpose pitches (volleyball, basketball, tennis) and fully equipped Olympic gym.