General Information about the school
There are two shifts in our school, during the morning shift elementary school attend classes and during the afternoon, mid and high school students attend classes. There is also a third shift at nights which attend adults at mid school level. The enrollment for this year is about 900 students, which attend from K to 12th grade. Our school offers two Bachelors for our students. At mid and High school grades, we have 44 colleagues in different areas, such as Math, Biology, Physics and Chemistry for the Bachelor in Science. We have also teachers in Spanish, English, French and Geography for the Bachelor in Humanities.
C.E.B.G. Cerro Puerco (C.E.B.G. stands for Centro Educativo Basica General; which would translate like Elementary to Mid school level teaching center) is located in the Corregimiento of Cerro Puerco, District of Munä, Ngäbe-Buklé Comarca, Republic of Panama.
Historic Overview
According to local lore, the school was created upon the request of the people living in this community back in 1967, with the assistance of teachers Tomas Acosta, Aurelio Mariano and Sandoya Rodriguez. These teachers began to work with no salary and the school was built with Bamboo and Palm leaves. On March 25, 1971 the school was officially announced, being the first educators Miriam Gomez, Clara Santamaria, Juanita Gonzalez, Dolores Quintero and Gilberto Amador. In 1987 the school opened with three concrete rooms built by the Government, The precursors of this construction was: Antonio Mariano, Higinio Salina, Juan Jimenez, Mariano Amado among others. The community of Cerro Puerco is said that long ago there was a pristine mountain where Mr. Roberto Salinas lived and there were large amounts of hogs. Across the mountain, across the river Santiago, there were many wild boars; but the inhabitants were given more importance to the hogs, for this reason the community prefer the name Cerro Puerco and the village took its name from it. There were not many homes and those who had it were distant from each other, the trucks were inaccessible and dangerous for the abundances of predators such as the jaguar and mountain lion. Over time the population grew and the mountains were disappearing like animals except wild boars.
There are two shifts in our school, during the morning shift elementary school attend classes and during the afternoon, mid and high school students attend classes. There is also a third shift at nights which attend adults at mid school level. The enrollment for this year is about 900 students, which attend from K to 12th grade. Our school offers two Bachelors for our students. At mid and High school grades, we have 44 colleagues in different areas, such as Math, Biology, Physics and Chemistry for the Bachelor in Science. We have also teachers in Spanish, English, French and Geography for the Bachelor in Humanities.
C.E.B.G. Cerro Puerco (C.E.B.G. stands for Centro Educativo Basica General; which would translate like Elementary to Mid school level teaching center) is located in the Corregimiento of Cerro Puerco, District of Munä, Ngäbe-Buklé Comarca, Republic of Panama.
Historic Overview
According to local lore, the school was created upon the request of the people living in this community back in 1967, with the assistance of teachers Tomas Acosta, Aurelio Mariano and Sandoya Rodriguez. These teachers began to work with no salary and the school was built with Bamboo and Palm leaves. On March 25, 1971 the school was officially announced, being the first educators Miriam Gomez, Clara Santamaria, Juanita Gonzalez, Dolores Quintero and Gilberto Amador. In 1987 the school opened with three concrete rooms built by the Government, The precursors of this construction was: Antonio Mariano, Higinio Salina, Juan Jimenez, Mariano Amado among others. The community of Cerro Puerco is said that long ago there was a pristine mountain where Mr. Roberto Salinas lived and there were large amounts of hogs. Across the mountain, across the river Santiago, there were many wild boars; but the inhabitants were given more importance to the hogs, for this reason the community prefer the name Cerro Puerco and the village took its name from it. There were not many homes and those who had it were distant from each other, the trucks were inaccessible and dangerous for the abundances of predators such as the jaguar and mountain lion. Over time the population grew and the mountains were disappearing like animals except wild boars.