Del Mar Academy

Del Mar Academy, a Bilingual Montessori School located in Nosara, Costa Rica: ""

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First Day of School

 

 

I love the school. It is the reason we came and I can see it being the reason we would stay. The staff are knowledgeable professionals and the environment is simply magical.

I can’t imagine returning to a “regular” school after a place like this.

I ran into some Costa Rican parents who said this is one of the nicest schools in Costa Rica in terms of quality and organization. These founders really had a vision and are on the path to fully realizing the dream of a perfect learning environment for children. It is a community effort though and there is an understanding that success is based as much on the parents as on the school. It is a school and community that strives to embraces the real genius of adventure learning by balancing high academic excellence in the full big picture of life experiences with family, friends and in nature.

Learning is an experience, not a work sheet and that is so refreshing!

 

There have been a few key new improvements in the status of visitors (in my long term tourist status) to Costa Rica.

1. Long term tourists can open Costa Rican bank accounts.
2. A new law was just passed enabling families with children in Costa Rican schools to get long term tourist visas.

It is a very new law and most lawyers still don’t know about it yet.  The will help us tremendously in avoiding the 90 day exits for 72 hours. Most families go to Nicaragua or Panama but it is a trek with 3 young kids alone.  I have also heard that after the travel expenses are all said and done, it would be easier to just fly to Florida.