Editing San José, Costa Rica (section)

==Education==
[[Costa Rica]] has developed high education levels. As of 2011 97.6% of the population over 10 was literate,<ref>{{cite web |author=Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos |title=Censos 2011 {{!}} Instituto Nacional De Estadistica Y Censos |url=http://www.inec.go.cr/censos/censos-2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214043335/https://www.inec.go.cr/censos/censos-2011 |archive-date=14 December 2020 |access-date=2018-11-01 |website=www.inec.go.cr |language=es}}</ref> 96% of children aged 6–11 attend primary school and 71% of students of high-school age attend high-school.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicef.org/costarica/docs/cr_pub_Folleto_MICS_Educacion.pdf |title=Costa Rica- Alfabetizacion y Educación (Costa Rica- Literacy and Education) |author=Costa Rica Ministry of Education, Unicef, MICS |date=2011 |website=Unicef.org}}{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> The country as a whole has the highest education levels in Central America and one of the best in Latin America. This is especially true for San José, the nation's educational hub home to a large number of public and private universities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.altillo.com/universidades/costarica/universidades_costarica_sanjose.asp |title=Universidades de San José (Privadas y Públicas) |publisher=Altillo.com |access-date=8 July 2013 |archive-date=3 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403085828/http://altillo.com/universidades/costarica/universidades_costarica_sanjose.asp |url-status=live }}</ref>

University of Santo Tomas, the first university of Costa Rica, was established here in 1843.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archivo.ucr.ac.cr/ustot.html |title=La Universidad de Santo Tomás (1843-1888) |website=Universidad de Costa Rica archive |access-date=19 November 2018 |archive-date=30 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130225938/http://archivo.ucr.ac.cr/ustot.html |url-status=live }}</ref> That institution maintained close ties with the Roman Catholic Church and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President Bernardo Soto Alfaro as part of a campaign to modernize public education. The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently, but Costa Rica had no university proper until 1940, when those four schools were re-united to establish the modern [[University of Costa Rica|University of Costa Rica (UCR)]], during the reformist administration of President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia. The [[University for Peace]], an intergovernmental organization with university status, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1980, is located in San José.

The city's public education system is composed of pre-schools, elementary and high schools (from grades 7 to 11), which are located in all of the city's districts and are under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Education. Nevertheless, private institutions do exist within the city. These educational institutions range from pre-schools to universities. Most tend to be bilingual, teaching subjects in either French or English and Spanish, among other languages, apart from just teaching a certain language.