The International Schools Review Forum

Does anyone have any information about this school?

What is it like to work at this school?

What is Buenos Aires like?

And is the salary good for a couple without kids?

I do not know much about the school but Buenos Aires is awesome. I have been there twice. It has a very European feel about it.

Buenos Aires is fantastic but has high inflation (aprox. 25%/year), and rising security issues. Then again, it probably has the best standard of living in Latin America and the schools mostly pay well. People are nice, you have every modcon, TONS of cultural offerings, etc.

St. Andrew's is super-prestigious by Argentine standards; it's attached to a university with the same name. It's bilingual and all the kids are Argentine. Mostly of the staff too, I would guess. Keep in mind, like all the schools in BA it's out in the 'burbs so you will have to commute about 40 min. each way everyday, but transport is provided by the school. You do not want to live in the suburbs, they are pretty sketchy.

I never worked there so sorry I can't give you more info, actually if you ended up taking the job I would appreciate some intelligence on the working environment since I'll be moving back to BA at the end of the year :)

BTW, the name is really San Andrés...I don't get why all the international schools in BA insist on translating their names to English when everyone uses the Spanish version of their name there. If you ask someone in BA about "St. Andrew's" they will have no idea what you're talking about!

Thanks, found out that they pay one foriegn hire salary and then one local salary for a couple which we didn't like the sound of.

We would have liked to be in BA as we like South America but we have since gotten jobs so we're happy.