Colegio Anglo Colombiano

The short version

The short version

Colegio Anglo Colombiano — “the Anglo” — is a private, co-educational, non-denominational school teaching about 1,800 students aged 4–18 on a single campus at Avenida Carrera 19 #152-48 in Las Margaritas, on Bogotá’s northern edge.

Founded in 1956 by Colombian and British citizens on the British school model, it has been an IB World School since 1 February 1980 — one of the oldest IB authorisations in Latin America — and today runs the full continuum: PYP to grade 4, MYP to grade 9, and the Diploma Programme in grades 10–11.↗↗

For a relocating family, the practical summary is this: the Anglo is the shortlist entry for a full IB pathway with British character in Bogotá — and it is unusually transparent about money for this market.

Its published 2024-25 PEI annex lists all-in annual costs (matrícula plus pensiones) of COP 39.6–40.5 million for grades 5–11, with a prepayment scheme that discounts future regulated fee increases for families entering at grades 5–7. The school runs calendario B (August–June), the international calendar.↗

What the school is

A bicultural foundation with British bones

The Anglo was founded in 1956 by a group of Colombian and British citizens — with British embassy support, per secondary accounts — to provide an international English-medium education on the British model, and it marked its 70th year in 2026.

The British inheritance survives in a house system named for admirals — Beatty, Nelson, Rodney and Hood — with houses competing vertically across primary and secondary, alongside a thoroughly Colombian identity: about 80% of families are local and 20% international.↗↗↗

Three external anchors define the school’s quality frame.

It has been accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS) since 1998; it is a Round Square member school, which structures its exchange, service and outdoor-education programmes around the network’s six IDEALS; and its IB authorisation dates to February 1980, just three years after Colombia’s first IB school.

Graduates leave fluent in English and Spanish, with a third language — French, Italian or German — available in bachillerato.↗↗↗

Academics in practice

The full IB continuum on a six-day cycle

The Anglo teaches the three IB programmes end to end: the Primary Years Programme from prekinder to grade 4, the Middle Years Programme in grades 5–9, and the Diploma Programme in grades 10–11 (Colombia’s school system ends at grade 11).

Directory data puts the average class at 22 with a maximum of 23, and about 35% of teachers are international, English-first-language staff. One operational quirk families notice immediately: the school runs a six-day rotating timetable — the “ciclo Anglo” — rather than a Monday-to-Friday week, so the curriculum spreads evenly across Colombia’s many public holidays.↗↗

On outcomes, the school reports that 92% of the Class of 2025 entered their first-choice course and university, and that 46% of the class went on to study abroad.

Experiential learning is load-bearing rather than decorative: progressive expeditions across Colombia from grade 1, Round Square exchanges, Model United Nations, the International Award, and UNCOLI inter-school sport.

As everywhere, ask for the full IB Diploma results distribution with cohort size — the school publishes a school profile on request — rather than relying on headline percentages.↗↗

Admissions and cost

Admissions, the PEI annex, and the prepayment scheme

The Anglo admits students aged 4–18 across three preschool years (prekinder, kinder, transición), primary grades 1–4 and bachillerato grades 5–11, with a structured induction that pairs new students with trained student volunteers, mentors, house and year heads, and socio-emotional counsellors.

The published 2024-25 PEI fee annex lists all-in annual payments — matrícula plus pensiones combined — of COP 40,548,600 for grades 5–6, COP 40,304,700 for grade 7, COP 39,965,400 for grades 8–9, COP 39,776,500 for grade 10 and COP 39,604,500 for grade 11; January 2025 directory data lists a monthly pensión of COP 5,385,200.↗↗↗

The annex hides one of the most interesting financial mechanisms in the market: a pensión prepayment scheme for students entering grades 5–7 that discounts future Ministry-approved annual fee increases — in effect, a hedge against regulated year-on-year rises for families who commit early and pay ahead.

The same document charges late payment at the maximum legal interest rate certified by Colombia’s Financial Superintendence, so the schedule cuts both ways. Note the annex covers grades 5–11 in the version we reviewed; confirm preschool and primary figures — and the current-year annex — directly with the school, since 2026-27 fees are not published.↗↗

Context for both numbers: Bogotá private schools operate under the régimen de libertad regulada, in which the Secretaría de Educación del Distrito sets the rules for annual matrícula and pensión increases — which is precisely why the annex can speak of “Ministry-approved annual pension increases” and why a prepayment discount against them is meaningful.

And the calendar: the Anglo runs calendario B (August–June), independent of the public calendario A (2026: 26 January–29 November), so a child transferring from a local-calendar school should switch at the August boundary to avoid a half-year seam.↗↗

The family experience

Las Margaritas, the commute, and community texture

The campus sits at Calle 152 on Carrera 19 — deep in the residential north, below the eastern hills, within reach of Usaquén and the Calle 127–170 family-housing band. Preschool and primary run 8:34am–3:35pm (preschool finishes at 11:50am on Wednesdays); grades 5–11 run 7:00am–2:30pm, with some extracurriculars before 8:00am and others to 5:30pm.

Bogotá traffic is the defining variable: diplomatic-community reports describe northern-corridor journeys that can double in the rain, so test the school run from your shortlisted neighbourhood before committing, and ask about bus routes.↗↗

Community texture: with four-fifths local families, the Anglo is a Colombian school with an international programme rather than an expat enclave — for many families that is precisely its value, since children acquire Spanish socially while studying in English.

The parents’ association (Asopanglo) is active, the house system gives younger children an instant cross-grade community, and the expedition programme means Colombian geography becomes part of the education rather than a weekend afterthought.↗↗

Take these to the school

Questions that move beyond the tour script