Faculty
On the Balboa Academy website, it says in the 2008-2009 school year, there are 66 full-time teachers, 5 part-time teachers 3 counselors, 1 educational prescriptionist, 6 education technicians, and 4 administrators. 54 are hired from the US, 15 are local, and 4 are third-country teachers. All of the teachers, except the Spanish teachers, have U.S. teaching credentials. Thirty-five faculty members have master’s degrees. The Spanish teachers have Panamanian university degrees. The student teacher ratio is approximately 11:1.
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