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# 									Lima, Peru: Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt ~ The American School of Lima: 2023-2024 Fact Sheet							

Overseas Schools Fact Sheet

Office of Overseas Schools

October 18, 2023

## 								School Contact Information							

        -  Tel: +51-1-435-0890 
        -  E-mail: fdr@amersol.edu.pe | Website: www.amersol.edu.pe 
        -  This Fact Sheet is intended to provide general information. For more information, contact A/OPR/OS (overseasschools@state.gov / +1-202-261-8200) or the school directly.  The Regional Education Officer for this school is Robin Heslip. 

 

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**Colegio Franklin D. Roosevelt, The American School of Lima**is a private, coeducational day school founded in 1946 which offers an educational program from early childhood (EC3) through grade 12 for students of all nationalities. The school year is comprised of 2 semesters extending from August 3 to December 22, 2023 and from February 21 to June 21, 2024.

**Organization**: The school is governed by a 12-member Board of Directors representing the Instituto Educacional Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Under this operating entity, the school is tax-exempt in Peru.

**Curriculum**: The Colegio Roosevelt curriculum is anchored on the School’s mission and is centered on empowering students to pursue their passion for learning, lead lives of integrity and create socially responsible solutions. Founded in 1946, Colegio Roosevelt has delivered an American-style education for over 76 years and is grounded in learning principles and core values that have been at core of our work since 2001. The school is home to an elementary school EC3 – grade 5, a middle school serving grades 6-8 and high school serving students in grades 9-12. The Roosevelt High School offers an Innovation Academy for students in grades 9-12 and the IB Diploma Program in grades 11-12. Graduates are awarded an American high school diploma and have the option of obtaining an IB and the Official Peruvian Program diploma. The Roosevelt curriculum is dynamic and challenging. Instructional strategies place an emphasis on inquiry as a source of learning and balances the integration of technology. Our students are well prepared and are placed in competitive universities around the world. The school is accredited through Cognia and is a member of AMISA and SAAC. The school offers a limited range of programs for students with learning support needs, including mild to moderate learning disabilities, and programs for English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners. English is the primary language of instruction. The American School of Lima is a CommonSense org. certified school and uses technology to strengthen our capacity to learn and build our community. We encourage our learning community to engage in the purposeful and responsible use of technology by fostering information and digital literacy, creativity, collaboration, and the critical search for solutions to develop balanced digital citizens.

**Faculty**: In the 2023-2024 school year, Roosevelt has 320 total staff including 208 teachers, 68 of whom are U.S. citizens, 122 host-country nationals, and 18 third-country nationals representing 7 different countries. All teachers have a teaching license, bachelor’s in education, and/or a master’s in education.

**Enrollment**: At the start of the 2023-2024 school year, student enrollment was 1,593 (EC/K-grade 5: 745; grades 6-8: 334; Grades 9-12: 465). Of the total, 319 were U.S. citizens, 897 were host-country nationals, and 377 were third-country nationals representing 43 other countries.

**Facilities**: Roosevelt’s programs are housed in 12 separate buildings on a beautifully landscaped, 28-acre campus in the residential district of La Molina in Lima. The school has modern science laboratories, music, drama, and visual arts rooms, many multipurpose areas, a complete media center housing the largest collection of English language resources in Peru, two gymnasiums, an indoor aquatics facility, and numerous sport fields. The EC/Kindergarten Center is an 18-classroom state-of-the-art facility which opened in February 2010. A 3,400 sq. meter Performing Arts Center opened in September 2012. In September of 2016, Roosevelt Commons was inaugurated – a 4,500 square meter facility with a variety of learning labs, meeting spaces, social areas, and a full-service cafeteria. In 2018, a new Roosevelt Elementary School opened featuring grade-level classroom areas with specialty rooms embedded, two science labs, a teaching kitchen, a maker space in the media center, and state-of-the-art spaces for visual art, music, Spanish, and fine adjacent outdoor learning areas. In 2019, the school inaugurated a three-level underground parking facility.

**Finances**: In the 2023-2024 school year, approximately 81% of the school’s income is derived from tuition, grants and donations. Annual tuition rates are as follows: EC: $15,830, grades K/1-5: $17,110, and grades 6-12: $17,940. There is an $19,500 entrance fee for all students and a $500 application fee. (All fees are quoted in U.S. dollars.)

**Special Needs**: Review the Special Needs Profile for this school to learn more about their capability to support students with exceptionalities.

*This Fact Sheet is intended to provide general information. Prospective users of the schools may wish to inquire further of A/OPR/OS or contact the school directly for more specific and up-to-the-minute information. Information and statistics are current as of September 2023 and provided by the school.*

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