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American School of Guatemala

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School type
  
Private

Language
  
English, Spanish

Address
  
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Mascot
  
Wasp

Gender
  
Coeducational

School colour(s)
  
Maroon, Gray

Phone
  
+502 2500 9595

Grades
  
Early childhood through grade 12

Campus
  
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Profiles

American school of guatemala promotional video


The American School of Guatemala is one of several private K-12 college preparatory schools in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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The American School of Guatemala is an independent, non profit, non-denominational, college preparatory institution offering an academic program modeled after the education practices and methodologies of the United States. It is founded on the principles of coeducational, bi-cultural (Guatemala-United States), and bilingual (Spanish-English) teaching.

ASG is fully accredited in the U.S. by the New England Association of Colleges and Schools and is recognized by the Guatemalan Ministry of Education as a Laboratory School. As a member of the Del Valle Grupo Educativo, ASG is actively committed to the development of education in Guatemala.

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History

In 1945 a group of parents established the school. On June 10 of that year the first classes began with levels Kindergarten through grade 5. There were 34 students, and first campus was a private residence in Zone 9. The student body increased to 74 by the end of the first school year. By that time, 12 teachers worked at the school. A 1948 presidential decree gave permission for ASG to be an experimental/laboratory school. Later the school gained its first large campus in Zone 14.

Accreditation and affiliations

ASG is a member of associations that sponsor activities and provide education services. These organizations are:

  • Tri-Regional Association of American Schools in Mexico, Central America, Caribbean and Colombia
  • Association of American Schools of Central America, AASCA
  • Inter-Regional Center, IRC
  • Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, ASCD
  • Association for the Advancement of International Education, AAIE
  • New England Association of Schools and Colleges, NEASC
  • Finally, the school maintains relations with the Bucks County Organization for Intercultural Advancement, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. Foreign teachers are contracted by this institution as exchange teachers.

    Notable alumni

  • Luis von Ahn, computer scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Gert Rosenthal, diplomat, permanent representative of Guatemala to the United Nations
  • Oliverio CastaƱeda, civil rights activist, assassinated at the age of 23 during the Guatemalan Civil War
  • References

    American School of Guatemala Wikipedia