La Escuela de Lancaster

Mexico


Location: Mexico
Type: Mainstream School
Phase: All-through with sixth form
Funding status: Independent
Gender: Mixed
Age range: 3 - 18 years

About La Escuela de Lancaster

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and star saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities”

- Charles Dickens

The Lancaster School is a non-profit, private school founded in 1979 and is located in the south of Mexico City. From small beginnings, the school has grown in size and quality, while keeping a strong sense of its individualism and identity, in line with the School’s Mission and Philosophy. From the start, Lancaster has offered all our students integrated programs combining the Mexican and British education systems, taught through both English and Spanish.

Lancaster has a unique educational philosophy, based on our long-standing view that the real aim of education is to allow each person to embark on a life-long journey of self-discovery, so constructing our own identity. As such many of our school systems are focussed on supporting Lancaster students discover who they are and who they want to be. Mariana, one of our Lower 6 students, wrote about the school as part of an anthropology class assignment:

“The Lancaster School has a sense of freedom, diversity, respect and empathy. Lancaster allows you to see the world from a different perspective. They teach you how to be a human being and not a machine. Teachers don’t let you fall, but rather, hold your hand to guide you. They let you be free.”

Lancaster has a reputation for being an unconventional school and this is, in ways large and small, indeed true. This stems from our philosophy and the reality that we are, as our mission states, a community of learners. The central idea is that we are engaged in the development of our individual identity, applies to the adults in our community as much as our students. Each of us who takes up the challenge of working at Lancaster finds that we have to examine some of our most cherished beliefs about education. It is our aim that during their time at Lancaster all our staff grow as people, in ways planned and perhaps unplanned. As a community, we welcome diversity in all its forms and the complexity that goes with this.

To be happy and successful at Lancaster teachers need to be: passionate about what they teach, be open-minded, and be reflective. They also need to be adaptable and believe that learning is a process, not a task for our students and ourselves. If you find yourself agreeing with this we would be happy to talk to you about becoming a member of the Lancaster team.

For more detailed information about Lancaster please read our 'General Information for Candidates' document, which you can find at this site.

October 2022

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Location


Address: Prolongation May 5 # 67, Colonia San Pedro Mártir, Tlalpan Delegation, México City, 14650, Mexico
Telephone: +52 555 666 9796
What people say about us

“The Lancaster School has a sense of freedom, diversity, respect and empathy. Lancaster allows you to see the world from a different perspective. They teach you how to be a human being and not a machine. Teachers don’t let you fall, but rather, hold your hand to guide you. They let you be free.”

- Mariana (Lower 6, 2019)

'Different - When I tell people I'm a Lancaster student the first thing that pops into their mind is that we are a bunch of very peculiar people. And we are, we live up to the expectations and I wouldn't change that for the world. '

- Graduate '17

'Lancaster gave me freedom of who I wanted to be. It is a different school and we have a particular spirit.’

- Graduate '17

‘A Safe Heaven - In this school I found a place where all types of people are accepted and valued, including myself. '

- Graduate '17

'I've attended MANY schools, at many levels and in many countries and still those teachers that I met at the Lancaster were some of the best. It is not what you knew (although you did give me a very strong foundation), it was much more. You made me discover some of the things that have helped me when few other things have: my curiosity, my sense of pride, and a basic yet strong moral ground. I am very fortunate to have studied there.'

- Ricardo Sánchez

'Friendly and informal atmosphere for professional, enthusiastic, caring teachers with a genuine commitment to educating the whole child.'

- Teacher
Positions available at La Escuela de Lancaster