Application Procedure:

1. Complete Balboa Academy’s application online our with our forms (please see links above) and submit the $50 application payment.  
2. The Admissions Office will contact you via email to confirm receipt of documents and inform you if any documents are missing. 
3. The Admissions Committee will review complete applications to determine if an applicant will be invited for an in-person evaluation. 
4. The Admissions Office will invite prospective applicants via email to schedule a time for an evaluation with an Educational Specialist. 
5. After the evaluation and receipt of all application documents, the Admissions Committee will give a final decision. 
6. The Admissions Office will email parents the Admissions Committee’s final decision. 

Please include the following in your child’s application:

• Copy of child’s passport 
• Copy of child’s birth certificate 
• Copy of child’s Immunization Records or our Immunization Form filled out by your child’s pediatrician. 
• Copy of both Parent’s passports 
• Copy of all Academic Records including current School Year (Note: Balboa Academy accepts copies in English or Spanish. Panama’s Ministry of Education [MEDUCA] will require originals translated into Spanish by a notarized translator in Panama if records are not in Spanish.) 

Evaluation Process

Students invited for an evaluation will schedule a date and time with one of our Educational Specialists. Our Pre-Kinder and Kindergarten evaluation has a duration of approximately 30 minutes and covers such concepts are shapes, letters, and numbers. The 1st-12th-grade evaluation has a duration of approximately one hour and covers reading, writing, and arithmetic. The evaluation is not an English proficiency test but is proctored entirely in English. The evaluation has a $100 fee to be paid on the date of the evaluation.

Admissions Committee Decisions

Balboa Academy’s Admissions Committee will review complete applications for a final decision within 10 calendar days. Students may be accepted without conditions, accepted with conditions, denied, or placed on our waiting list.

Note:  Upon Admission to Balboa Academy, we recommend grade placement for each student. Parents applying with school transcripts or records from outside of Panama must have those validated through the Ministry of Foreign Relations (Embassy of the Country of Origin) and the Panamanian Ministry of Education (MEDUCA) to officially assign entering Grade placement.

More information on the MEDUCA Procedure