Welcome from the General Director

Daniel Allen

Welcome to Lincoln School, where we are celebrating 75 years of excellence in education in Costa Rica. Our students, parents, staff, and alumni continue to set the standard for quality education in Costa Rica and the world, blending a US style education with a strong commitment to our Costa Rican history and culture.

At Lincoln School, we offer a broad selection of high quality programs and enrichment opportunities to our students, from the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, to championship sports teams, to the integration of music and the arts at all grade levels. We offer a premier academic program, with graduates going on to study at some of the most prestigious universities in Costa Rica and around the world. Yet while we take great pride in our outstanding educational program, what matters most to us is instilling in our students the values and mindset necessary to act as leaders who will go forward to promote social development and innovation, provide economic growth and stability, and ensure equity and opportunity in our communities, nation, and beyond.

To that end, our Lincoln school team is in the midst of a transformation to integrate the habits of entrepreneurial thinking with the attributes of the IB Learner Profile. We want our students to be caring and principled, capable of observing problems and challenges around them and then applying their best thinking and creative energy to design and implement solutions that make a positive difference in the lives of others. We want to measure our success as a school, not by graduation rates or test scores alone, but by the transformative impact our graduates have in making the world a better place.

At Lincoln, our motto of “Inspiring People” is simple but powerful. By definition, to inspire is to “fill someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something.” Our goal is to prepare graduates with both the desire and the ability to be game-changers and action-takers for good. We hope you will come join us in that work.

Onward,

Daniel Allen, Ed.D., NBCT

General Director

Governance Structure

Gorvernance Structure

Assembly of Associates

Lincoln School is governed by the assembly of associates. Every family gets to be associated by a representative that will participate in the assemblies or be represented by a power of attorney.

The assembly of associates meets once a year to elect the board of directors and vote on important decisions regarding all school aspects.

Board of Directors

The board of directors is elected by the assembly and represents all associates following the school statutes. It is composed of eleven members and a fiscal.

Marilis Pinto Barzuna – President
Federico Chavez Saenz – Vicepresident
Luis Artavia Gutiérrez – Treasurer
Erica Araya Escalante – Secretary
Jose Antonio Sauma Uribe – Vocal I
Orlando Ortiz Odio – Vocal II
Shannon Music Gamboa – Vocal III
Mónica Orlich Ventura – Vocal IV
Osvaldo Mora González – Vocal V
Diana Montero Hernández – Vocal VI
Sergio Santisteban Stone – Fiscal

Committees

Lincoln also has board committees that can be composed of associates and Lincoln Parents. We have permanent and Ad Hoc committees that help achieve goals and strategic objectives. Board committees respond directly to the board of directors. Some of our board committees are:

Education
Finance
Buildings and grounds
Scholarship

History

Lincoln History

The beginning of a dream

In 1945, a group of visionary Costa Rican parents and US immigrants
founded Lincoln School to provide a bicultural and bilingual education for their children. Since its foundation in a small house in Barrio La California in San José and its long-term location in Moravia where the Lincoln dream became a reality, to its actual campus of 7 hectares (17.3 acres) in Barrio El Socorro, San Miguel de Santo Domingo de Heredia.

Lincoln School has been a leader in co-educational private instruction in Central America. Starting with 136 students in 1945, Lincoln has grown to an outstanding current enrollment of 1,500 students. Throughout Lincoln’s history up to the present, students come from a variety of countries and represent a wide spectrum of religions and cultures, thereby enriching the learning environment and giving the school population a multicultural emphasis, a vital tool that allows them to have a better understanding of today’s globalized world. Lincoln is a non-profit, private educational institution offering programs from Preschool to 12th grade.