Related Party Transactions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2020
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]
Related Party Transactions	Related Party Transactions As part of the issuance and sale of shares of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock in December 2016, KKR and Snow Phipps, affiliates of Wengen, purchased from the Company 60 and 15 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company paid cash dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock totaling $11,103, of which $1,822, was paid to KKR and Snow Phipps. As discussed in Note 12, Share-based Compensation and Equity, on April 23, 2018, all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Series A Preferred Stock were converted into Class A common stock.As discussed in Note 6, Dispositions, the buyer of our Costa Rica operations is controlled by certain affiliates of Sterling Capital Partners II, L.P., an entity that has the right to designate a director to the Laureate Board of Directors pursuant to a securityholders agreement.