SCCS School Profile
Director General: Dr. Casey Asato, casato@sccs.edu.bo
High School Principal: Mr. Paul Petit, ppetit@sccs.edu.bo
Middle School Principal: Mr. Hudson Thurston, hthurston@sccs.edu.bo
College Placement Counselor: Mrs. Clara Fernandez, cfernandez@sccs.edu.bo
Founded in 1959 by Gulf Oil and a group of Bolivian families, Santa Cruz Cooperative School (SCCS) was originally established to serve the children of Gulf Oil Company personnel. In 1970, SCCS became the cooperative it is today.
The school is located in Santa Cruz, the most populated and fastest-growing city in Bolivia, with approximately 1,606,671 inhabitants. SCCS is a private, coeducational day school offering a rigorous college preparatory program that leads to both American and Bolivian high school diplomas. Its curriculum is aligned with the Common Core and NGSS Standards. The language of instruction is English, except for foreign language courses offered to students from PK–12th grade.
The SCCS student body is 85% Bolivian, 10% U.S. citizens, and 5% from other nationalities, with 11% holding dual citizenship. The current enrollment is 697 students.
The school sits on an 8-acre campus with facilities that include:
- 43 classrooms
- A library media center
- Four science laboratories
- Four computer laboratories
- Two conference rooms
- A sports complex and an art/theater complex
- Three outdoor playing fields
- A full-service cafeteria
- Two Elementary Playgrounds (Lower and Upper Elementary, inaugurated in August 2024 and February 2025)
- The Innovation Hub (inaugurated in February 2025)
At SCCS, we cultivate lifelong learners who are critical and creative thinkers, principled leaders, and compassionate global citizens. The Jaguar community supports, inspires, and challenges every mind and heart to reach their full potential.
Expectations for student learning include:
- Proficient and fluent communication in English and Spanish
- The use of critical and higher-order thinking skills in decision-making and problem-solving
- Efficiency in the use of technology and resources
- Responsibility in citizenship and active participation in community service
- Awareness of the importance of intellectual, emotional, and physical well-being
- Respectful attitudes and behavior toward all members of the school community
- Development of positive work ethics, organizational, and study skills
Our core values are: Respect, Kindness, Integrity, Responsibility, Resilience, and Collaboration.
- SCCS students strive to be inquirers, critical thinkers and problem solvers who cultivate curiosity, develop research skills, evaluate information critically, construct meaningful knowledge and apply it in the real world.
- Collaborators and leaders with strong cultural, global and environmental awareness who develop strong interpersonal and team-related skills, work autonomously and with others, learn from each other and contribute to the learning of others.
- Effective communicators who express themselves confidently in more than one language and who understand and are able to communicate ideas in writing, verbally and digitally under the consideration of perspectives of other individuals and groups.
- Creative and innovative learners who identify opportunities of scientific, economic and social growth and who independently and cooperatively explore and generate new ideas and strategies to become ambassadors of change.
