The ''Colegio Franco Español'' (CFE, "French-Spanish School") is a private school in the San Lorenzo Huipulco ''colonia'' in
Tlalpan
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,
Mexico City
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.
Ubicación
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). ''Colegio Franco Español''. Retrieved on May 26, 2014. "PREESCOLAR - PRIMARIA Calzada México-Xochimilco 122 Col. San Lorenzo Huipulco C.P. 14370" and "SECUNDARIA - PREPARATORIA Calzada México-Xochimilco 88 Col. San Lorenzo Huipulco C.P. 14370" It covers preschool through high school (preparatoria) levels.
History
The school opened on January 16, 1936. It was originally located at 99 Paseo de la Reforma
Paseo de la Reforma (literally "Promenade of La Reforma, the Reform") is a wide avenue that runs diagonally across the heart of Mexico City. It was designed at the behest of Maximilian of Mexico, Emperor Maximilian by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig d ...
in the Colonia Juárez of the Cuauhtémoc
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delegation. It was created by a group of professionals, including French national R.J. Capdeville and Spanish national Antonio Gutiérrez L.[Historia]
, ''Colegio Franco Español''. Retrieved on May 26, 2014. "La experiencia docente de los profesores R.J. Capdeville (de nacionalidad francesa) y Antonio Gutiérrez L. (español), se sumó a la de otros profesionales para crear esta institución. La primera sede del Colegio se ubicó en una de las avenidas más importantes de la Ciudad de México, Paseo de la Reforma, justo en el número 99, teniendo también acceso por la calle de París, en la colonia Juárez."
Construction of new facilities on the former Hacienda de Guadalupe
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at 1967 Av. Insurgentes began in 1938. On February 12, 1941, the school received its incorporation by the National Autonomous University of Mexico
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(UNAM). The Av. Insurgentes campus began holding classes during the 1942-1943 school year
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The school became boys-only in the late fifties, and it moved to Av. Miguel Ángel de Quevedo y Cerro del Hombre, in the Romero de Terreros ''colonia'' in ]Coyoacán
Coyoacán ( ; , Otomi: ) is a borough (''demarcación territorial'') in Mexico City. The former village is now the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means "place of coyotes", when the Aztecs named a pre- ...
. The school became coeducational again in 1977. In 1988 it moved to its current location at 88 Calzada México Xochimilco.[
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References
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Colegio Franco Español
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High schools in Mexico City
Tlalpan
Educational institutions established in 1936
1936 establishments in Mexico
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