The centre takes students aged 11 to 19.
On the Lynn University campus at 3601 N Military Trail, Boca Raton, Florida — a quiet coastal town just outside Miami. The shops in Boca Raton are about two miles away: five minutes by coach, seventeen by public bus, or a forty-five-minute walk.
No. The school states on the centre's page that the course is not hosted, co-sponsored or endorsed by Lynn University; St Andrew's College Language Schools organises it and uses the campus.
An average of fifteen hours of lessons a week; each lesson lasts one hour and thirty minutes.
Classes hold up to eighteen students and are grouped by level after an entry test. The school accepts levels from A1+ and A2 through B1 and B2 to C1 and C1+.
Both, depending on the day. The school runs a zig-zag timetable: a group studies in the morning on some days and in the afternoon on others, with the rest of the day given to excursions and activities.
Students live on campus in the Count and Countess de Hoernle Residence Hall, in double-occupancy rooms with twin dormitory beds; each room has vanities and sinks.
Yes. Each floor has a central bathroom with four toilets and four showers, and a floor holds at most twenty-four students. The bathrooms are cleaned by the university's own cleaners; students dispose of their own rubbish.
Linen is provided, with a linen swap offered between the sixth and eighth day of the stay. Towels are not provided, so students should bring their own.
No. The hall has no kitchen, and no appliances or utensils are provided. Meals are served in the campus dining hall.
Yes — laundry facilities are inside the residence hall and are charged per wash and dry.
Full-day excursions run three times a week, six over a fortnight with one late return, and visit the Wynwood Walls, South Beach, Downtown Miami, Naples and the Everglades National Park. There are no half-day excursions, and all journeys on the student programme are by private coach. The Classic programme includes paid entry to the Millionaires Row cruise, an Everglades airboat ride and a self-guided tour of the Gumbo Limbo nature centre.
The school provides a pre-paid card for three of the outings and a boxed meal for three others.
A swimming pool, a gymnasium, and both indoor and outdoor sports facilities, plus a theatre, a campus store, outdoor dining space and grounds with a pond and fountain. The centre has no common room, study room or computer room.
Staff are on site around the clock — a centre manager, a welfare coordinator, an activities and excursions manager, a director of studies and overnight welfare liaison supervisors. Security is posted twenty-four hours at all campus entry points, and the residence hall has secure access entry systems and its own security presence. Staff wear purple shirts and green lanyards; students wear purple lanyards at all times.
