Aliciana Solano, a psychologist, who has an excellent preschool center in the city, founded the school in 2000. She felt the need to extend her program and create another bilingual school in Santa Marta. With a group of psychologists and educators, she opened kindergarten, first and second grades in 2000. The second year, a third grade class was opened. By the year 2009 the school will have all twelve grades.

Bureche School is located by on the Troncal del Caribe. The school is recognized and approved by the Secretary of Education. It is a private coeducational school directed by a Board of Directors.