Santa Marta is a small community located 1.8 kilometers south west of Nosara. Only one family, Federico Sobrado and his wife Luz, who were looking for better living conditions, settled it. They set up a sawmill, which Luz named after the saint of her devotion, Santa Marta, and the town was born.  The school was a wooden hut until strong winds destroyed it in 1973.  Then two of the present day four classrooms were built using concrete. Today the school has 104 children enrolled. The current principal is Marbeth Diaz Noguera, and the school address is frente a la plaza deportiva de Santa Marta (in front of the sports plaza of Santa Marta).