Colegio Alemán de Guatemala (German: Deutsche Schule Guatemala) is a German international school in Zone 11, Guatemala City.[1] It serves levels kindergarten through bachillerato (senior high school).[2]
It is categorized as a German school abroad by the Zentralstelle für das Auslandsschulwesen.[3] It is one of more than 140 German schools abroad and has the status of an encounter school with a bicultural school goal, i.e. it leads to the German Abitur as well as the national Bachillerato.[4]
History
The school was founded on 1 January 1901 by the Asociación de Educación y Cultura "Alejandro von Humboldt".[5]
At the celebration of its 100th anniversary in 2001, the German School Guatemala was awarded the "Orden del Quetzal en grado de Gran Cruz" by the Guatemalan government for its outstanding educational work.
Schools marked with asterisks (*) are unrecognised by the Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZfA), not appearing in its list of German "Auslandschule" in North and Middle America. Schools marked with (**) are recognized as German Partner School (PASCH) or German Sprachdiplom Schule (DSD) [1]. Schools marked with X are/were schools operated by the German government/Bundeswehr for military dependents and are/were not in the ZFA network.