The adventure starts here! From now on you will discover everything CBC offers its students so that they are leaders capable of transforming the world, executing projects with high social and environmental impact.
For the British School of Cartagena (CBC) it is a pleasure to know your interest in being part of our family. Together we will ensure that your child has the best training and experience that enriches his life with relevant and significant learning to face any challenge successfully.
We are a trilingual educational institution, with an active learning methodology and with high empathy towards families and their needs. We educate with specialized international curricula in the stages of development and, in addition, we are the only ones on the coast with worldwide certifications that guarantee the high quality of education we provide.
Before starting our admissions process, we invite you to meet and take a virtual tour of our headquarters, while we provide you with all the information about our school. To schedule your virtual tour you can contact the number [57] 300 383 5883, from Monday to Friday from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm.
If you decided to start your process with us, you must submit the following required documents and upload them to our admissions platform. Once the admissions form has been completed and the documents have been gathered, we will continue with the next step.
We will assign you an appointment with psychology and cycle coordination, corresponding to the degree to which you aspire. The results of the exams and the interview are analyzed by the Admission Committee and subsequently notified to the family. If the student is admitted, the parents will go through the enrollment process. It is essential to have the complete documentation to close this process.
If the response of the admissions committee has been positive, we will send you the invoice that you can cancel by means of a bank deposit. You can download the registration documents on our website; you must fill them out and deliver them to the academic secretary.
You will always be welcome on this tour, where your opinions are very important to us, as well as any concerns, which we will be ready to resolve. Schedule your visit by contacting the number [57] 300 383 5883, Monday through Friday, from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., or leave us your information and we will contact you as soon as possible.
¡Contact us!The results of the exams and interviews are analyzed in the admission committee and subsequently notified to the family. If the student is admitted, the parents will continue with the enrollment process.
More informationEnjoy a magical experience touring our facilities in a virtual way and get to know the spaces where we develop the potential of our children. You will feel like in your second home!
Schedule your Bristh DayAt CBC we have an at site nutritionist, in charge of designing the best lunch and snack menu for our students, taking into account the best healthy eating habits.
Parents have access to the weekly menu on our website and can see in advance, what foods will be prepared during the week for children. In addition, we have the most technologically advanced food plant in the city, which supplies and is in charge of supplying the school restaurant with fresher food.
We have a GPS system for the location at all times of our school bus routes, which are responsible for picking up children at their homes and bringing them safely to school; likewise, they return them home safe and sound.
Each route has a teacher instructor who is responsible for ensuring the safety of children inside the buses and verifying that all children on the route reach their destination.
The cost of enrollment and monthly fee varies depending on the cycle and grade level to which the child will enter, for which his age is also taken into account. The admissions coordinators are the people in charge of providing this information to those interested.
Starting in first grade in lower elementary school, children begin to take some subjects in English, thus being Spanish and the latter, the languages that students begin to use. Subsequently, in the third grade of primary they begin with their French classes.
Our Project Based Learning (ABP) methodology allows children to choose from 32 co-curricular activities in which they develop their potential throughout the year. From sports, music, art, legos, programming, school mediation and much more. Find out about all of our co-curricular activities in the Project Based Learning section of our website.
Among students, teachers and administrators we have more than 32 nationalities in the classrooms and hallways of the school. Currently, we have more than 10 foreign teachers in our school.
The British School of Cartagena is among the 50 best in the country and among the 3 best in Cartagena de Indias. Our students' Saber test results highlight their discipline, commitment and responsibility.
As a multicultural space, CBC respects the religious diversity of the families that are part of our community.
In each classroom there is a maximum of 25 children and our classrooms are fully equipped with the best technology and supplies designed for the comfort of our students and for what is most profitable for them to learn.
At CBC we are an IB school, or International Baccalaureate, an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program that allows our students to homologate subjects with schools anywhere in the world. In addition, it allows them to validate subjects with national and international universities. The distinction of being an IB school highlights the quality of education offered at CBC to our students. We are the best, we do the best!
