Instituto O'Higgins is a private

Catholic school Catholic schools are Parochial school, parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest parochial schools, religious, no ...

located in the center of

Rancagua Rancagua () is a city and commune in central Chile and part of the Rancagua conurbation. It is the capital of the Cachapoal Province and of the O'Higgins Region, located south of the national capital of Santiago. It was originally named Sa ...

, Chile. It is administered by the

Marist Brothers The Marist Brothers of the Schools, commonly known as simply the Marist Brothers, is an international community of Catholic Church, Catholic religious institute of Religious brother, brothers. In 1817, Marcellin Champagnat, a Marist priest from Fr ...

. It was founded in 1915 by four

, Andrés, Donato, Cristobal and Salvador María. Originally the institute was exclusively for boys, but since year 2000, girls have been allowed as well. In 1925 the school created his own

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

team, the ''Club de Deportes Instituto O'Higgins'', that was merged in 1954 with the

Braden Copper Company Braden Copper Company was an American company that controlled the El Teniente copper mine in Chile until 1967 when its copper holdings were nationalized. History Braden Copper Company was founded on 18 June 1904 by E.W. Nash, Barton Sewell, Willi ...

team, creating the

O'Higgins Braden O'Higgins Braden was a Chilean football club based in the city of Rancagua. The club was founded on 1954 and merged between Instituto O'Higgins and Braden F.C.. Later, after won the Segunda División, the club merged in 1955 with América d ...

club. One year later, in 1955, O'Higgins Braden merged with

América de Rancagua The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.''Webster's New World College Dictionary'', 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. When viewed as a sing ...

football club, forming the current

Club Deportivo O'Higgins O'Higgins Fútbol Club (), also known as O'Higgins de Rancagua, is a Chilean professional Association football, football club based in Rancagua, that currently plays in the Primera División de Chile, Campeonato Nacional. The club's home stad ...

. This school has a sports park called ''Estadio Marista'' (''Marist Stadium''), located in the town of

Machalí Machalí is a Chilean commune and city in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region. Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Machalí spans an area of and has 28,628 inhabitants (14,297 men and 14,331 women) ...

, near Rancagua.

Rectors

The rectors of the school had been:

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Chilean Marist Brothers
O'Higgins F.C. Schools in Cachapoal Province Marist Brothers schools Catholic schools in Chile Educational institutions established in 1915 Rancagua 1915 establishments in Chile Private schools in Chile {{Chile-school-stub

Rectors

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