Gimnasio de Los Cerros

Los Cerros belongs to the International Baccalaureate organisation and offers the IB Diploma Programme in Grades 11 and 12, with English used as a real working language. Its international project also includes membership of Round Square, one of six schools in Colombia, which opens exchanges and joint projects with schools around the world, a two-month immersion in Windsor, Canada, and participation in Model United Nations.

Los Cerros is a bilingual school. English is taught as a second language from the earliest years and grows in each stage: oral immersion in early childhood, parallel literacy in English and Spanish in the Early Years, academic reading, writing and argument in the Middle Years, and English as the working language of the IB Diploma in the Upper Years. All teachers who teach English or subjects in English hold an international certification.

The school is organised in three stages. Early Years covers the youngest classes from K3 and Transition up to Grade 3, taught in the Children's Forest building. Middle Years covers the following grades of primary and lower secondary, and Upper Years covers the last years of secondary school, where students follow the IB Diploma Programme in Grades 11 and 12.

The school's mission is to work with parents to educate their sons personally and integrally through the practice of virtues and values, in an atmosphere of freedom and responsibility, so that they become happy men who know how to serve and love others. Its Catholic identity, inspired by Opus Dei, stresses doing ordinary work well, caring for details and dedication to family. The school also promotes environmental awareness, solidarity and service-based leadership.

The school offers an after-school programme that includes table tennis, tennis, robotics, a graphic design workshop, the Big Band Cerros for wind and percussion instruments, climbing on the school wall and Club Delta, which combines cultural and sports activities. School teams compete in local tournaments, and the youth football team has won the ASOCOLDEP championship. Physical education is presented as part of character formation.

The campus includes music and art rooms, an ICT lab, science laboratories, multipurpose rooms, a video room and a radio booth for school media. Sports facilities cover a synthetic pitch, areas for football, basketball and volleyball, a coliseum, a multi-sport court, a tennis court, table tennis and a climbing wall. There are children's and general libraries, a playground, social areas, a dining hall, a chapel and a hermitage, and the Children's Forest building is designed for pupils from Transition to Grade 3.

Los Cerros runs more than 30 school bus routes covering Bogotá and nearby towns such as Chía, Cajicá and La Calera, with satellite tracking through the OnTrack app and a trained monitor on each route. Meals are prepared by the school's own restaurant. Each student has a mentor, and a scholarship fund helps families facing serious financial difficulties with tuition. Parents can join the parents' association and school formation programmes.