This school is playing an increasingly positive role in a Costa Rican community that is rapidly changing and developing as a result of the tourism associated with two internationally known cloud forest reserves which surround us. Each year tens of thousands of visitors pass through our area. The residents of the area are a unique mix. In addition to the scattered rural Costa Rican population of several thousand, there is a small Quaker colony founded in 1951, biologists doing research, visiting students, North Americans and Europeans who have settled here and a variety of educators who work in the schools or teach international study courses. The area is still quite rural with a network of dirt and gravel roads.
Many families have neither cars nor telephones.
At the same time, the international influences are causing Costa Rican parents to dream that their children will be well-educated, bilingual and environmentally aware in order to increase their career opportunities and economic status. Creativa is striving to meet.