About+EA

Our Mission Escuela Anaco seeks to create a challenging learning environment that encourages high expectations for success through development-appropriate instruction that allows for individual differences and learning styles. ** Profile ** Escuela Anaco - home of Las Guacamayas! Located in Anaco, Venezuela 7 hours drive east of Caracas and only one hour from the Caribbean. Currently we have 64 students, 8 teachers, 4 aides, and a Director/PE Teacher.

Escuela Anaco was founded in 1956 to serve as the American school for employees of the various international petroleum service companies in Anaco, Venezuela. Anaco is a growing city of approximately 120,000 people, located 50 miles south of the Caribbean coast in the natural gas fields of eastern Venezuela.

Escuela Anaco is a SACS accredited school from PreKinder 3 to Grade 8. The school’s composition has changed greatly throughout it’s 54 years and has reflected the highs and lows of Venezuelan politics and the petroleum industry. Currently the school has 64 students. An early childhood program of 29 students, an elementary school of 23 students and a middle school of 11 students. There are 95% Venezuelans, 5% othervCountry Nationals. Other demographic statistics are 94% of our students are English Language Learners and as of August 2010, only 3% of the students are enrolled through the petroleum companies. There are 6 expatriate foreign hire employees and 7 local employees.

The school has a large, beautiful, 14 acre campus. Facilities include 19 air-conditioned classrooms, which include a computer lab, math lab, copy room, cafeteria, 2 playgrounds, a covered gymnasium, and lighted softball and soccer fields.

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