Type Jesuit, Catholic Director Elena González Gender Coeducational | Rector Jesús Orbegozo, SJ Grades K through high school | |
Established 1923; 94 years ago (1923) | ||
St. Ignatius of Loyola College, Caracas, (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola) was founded by the Jesuits in 1923, is coeducational, and covers pre-primary through high school.
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History
Ignatius College was founded in 1923 with the encouragement of the Catholic Archbishop. In 1940 the college received a new building. In the early 1950s it moved to Chacao, its present location. It sees as its mission to educate "for justice, for the benefit of those most in need." Some graduates have gone on to prominence.
Programs
English, French, and Latin are taught. Facilities include science and technology laboratories, library, fitness center, swimming pool, regulation football fields, baseball field, rama sports football, basketball, volleyball, and artistic gymnastics. Its football players regularly find positions abroad. The College is very active in Model UN debate and received five student awards at the Harvard Model UN in 2016, including an "outstanding delegate" award. In conjunction with foreign universities it has fairs in video game creation and in design (graphic, interior, fashion, product). The College also organizes forums in the public interest.
Mothers' social action organization
St. Ignatius Catholic Social Organization (OSCASI) was founded after the fall of the Marcos Perez Jimenez dictatorship in 1958, with the transition to democracy. Mothers in the school reflected together and determined to assist the neediest mothers in the Union Petare neighborhood, in the areas of health and education. That densely packed neighborhood in Caracas had an 83% dropout rate for children 9-14. In 1992 an alternative school was founded for students who dropped out of formal education, to continue their schooling. Today there are four alternative schools, El Cortijo, San Ignacio, Beatriz Castillo, and Adelita Calvani, along with dental clinics and preschools.