Three weeks your family will talk about for years.
Immersive learning programmes rooted in BriBri Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean community. Culture. Cooking. Cacao. Conservation. Community. Small groups. The real thing.
Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica · Place-based learning
— E, AGE 11, Programme one 2026
"This is our home. That's what makes this different."
Claire and Sam built Cacao Coast Classroom from a life already lived on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Sam has been here for 22 years. Claire arrived five years ago and never left.
The educators who work with your children are neighbours. The BriBri Indigenous farm, the Afro-Caribbean kitchen, the conservation reef — these are not experiences assembled for visitors. They are simply what life here looks like.
We curate a limited number of immersive, place-based experiences in culture, conservation, and community for worldschooling, homeschooling, and traveling families.
The Five Pillars
Five Ways to Learn Something Real
01
Culture
Our connections to Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean communities, local educators and the rhythms of this place aren't curated for visitors. They're simply our life here.
02
Cooking
Food is one of the oldest classrooms there is. Cultural cooking sits at the heart of everything we do, connecting families to the land and to each other.
03
Cacao
From bean to bar, we work with cacao as a lens for ecology, history, economics and craft. There is no better classroom than a cacao farm.
04
Conservation
This coastline is precious. Our children learn alongside it — not just about it.
05
Community
Community is real here. Families become part of it not just pass through.
Start here.
The Family Guide tells you everything you need to know about both programmes , what happens each day, who the educators are, what children come home with, and what families say.
SUMMER PROGRAMME
Two Programmes. Both Open Now.
Early applicants receive first access to places and full programme details the moment they're confirmed.
Seeds & Stories
July 26 – August 14 · Three weeks · Ages 7+
A full family immersion. 8:30am to 1pm, Monday to Friday.
Cacao farms, Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean communities, conservation, cultural cooking, art and music, woven into days that feel nothing like school and everything like the real world. The kind of learning that children carry long after the summer ends, and that quietly reshapes how families see each other too.
Roots & Rhythms
August 23 – September 11 · Three weeks · Ages 10+
A drop-off programme. 9am to 3pm, Monday to Friday.
Learning that is hands-on, sensory and real. Educators who live here. A community that holds every child. Parents have the Caribbean coast to themselves though the community comes together at opening, closing and on cooking days when parents are warmly welcome at the shared table.