History, Vision, Mission

History

In 1996 a group of entrepreneurs from Intibucá:
Gertrudis Pineda Ponce de Herrera, Hazel Margarita Alvarado de Wesson, Caridad Pineda Ponce de Tejada, José Augusto Herrera, Troy Eliseo Wesson, Richard Marcelo Tejada, concerned by the lack of effectiveness in public education, decided to establish what is known today as Southwest School.

At that time it was a difficult task to establish a completely new concept for our city: a bilingual school, a school whose system was based from its beginnings on the North American system of education.

There were few who clearly accepted the importance of the English language as an emphasis in the education of their children. There were few that believed in a new concept, a new system. With more than 200 school days and a strict system of teaching, the "little school" (because of its reduced number of students) as it was called in the beginnings has grown and been converted into an institution with more than 120 students.

Currently the school has its own building which includes 15 classrooms and a spacious green area that the students can enjoy with plenty of freedom and fresh air. The building is located 2 km or 1.24 miles outside of the city of La Esperanza.

Vision

The school attempts to provide the community with an education imparted only by professional in education, both Hondurans and foreigners.

Day by day the institution lends its services in pre-school, primary and middle school, mantaining as its next goal the establishment of high school, possibly with a specialty in some area of administration, in this way preparing the students to efficiently face any possible situation in their future studies.

As a middle range plan, the insitution visualizes the establishment of a university, thus finalizing a system which logically, structurally and with a base on our reality, can provide a real affront to the future challenges that the citizenry graduating from our institution must face.

Mission

In summary, Southwest School has the mission of strengthening Honduras through a system of education that prepares our youth to confront the challenges of the future and has as a vision a complete institution that grows and develops in the search for an improved education for our people.