Colegio Jorge Washington (COJOWA), previously the George Washington School, is an international school located in Cartagena, Colombia, with a main campus in Zona Norte and a preschool campus in Bocagrande.
[1] The school was founded in August 1952, and classes began on October 1 that year.
Initially the school enrolled 25 students, taught by 3 teachers.
The school occupied a campus on Second Avenue in Bocagrande until a new building opened in 1963; the United States federal government donated $923,000 while citizens and industrialists from inside and outside Colombia donated $935,000.
The preschool program began in 1979, the same year as the first junior high school graduation.