- Colegio San Bartolomé la Merced
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San Bartolomé la Merced School Location Kr.5 No. 34-00
Bogotá, ColombiaCoordinates 4°37′12″N 74°03′51″W / 4.619887°N 74.064245°W Information Type Private, Catholic, Jesuit Motto "If there is a Bartolino, there will be a Gentleman" Established 1604 Founded 1941 Founder Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero Rector Carlos Eduardo Correa, S.J. Number of students 1,724 Campus size 11 Hacres Slogan "Be more to better serve" Mascot Magpie Website http://www.sanbartolo.edu.co Colegio San Bartolomé la Merced is a jesuit, private, bilingual (Spanish and English) and co-educational school, located in Bogotá, Colombia; affiliated with the Society of Jesus of the Roman Catholic Church, and often known as "San Bartolo". The school campus, founded in 1941, is located in the traditional neighborhood of "La Merced" in downtown Bogotá.
The school is considered as one of the most traditional and prestigious schools in the country and the education has been recognized for taking a humanistics and social approach. Since its foundation, the school has been ranked among the top high schools in the nation[citation needed]. San Bartolo Alumni have reached high job positions in politics; becoming presidents, senators, former ministers, and ambassadors. Others have become scientists, professors, artists and big entrepreneurs[citation needed]. The school is committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of Jesuits and considers its heritage to be Ignatian.
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Academics
The school offers pre-school, preparatory, secondary, and high school education in the same campus. All-year programs provide basic education and additionally, electives; sports (including soccer, tennis, squash, basketball, volleyball, athletics, hockey, gymnastics, golf, archery, and swimming), and art classes (such as music, art and drama). Also, during high school, students can take in-depth classes based on their career interests (including humanistics, arts, technology and biology classes).
Furthermore, students can take English as a second language (ESL) programs abroad: in Windsor, Canada for preparatory school; Eastbourne, England for secondary school; and Vancouver, Canada for high school. Also, all year class has annual trips to different destinations inside the country. These have included: the Amazon Basin, Gorgona Island, Llanos Orientales, Parque del Café, Guajira Desert, Cartagena and Villa de Leyva.
History
In the 1930s the Society of Jesus was facing serious financial problems, because of political pressure from the government, about their existing contract with it for the management of the National School of San Bartolomé, currently called "Mayor de San Bartolomé". The Society of Jesus started the construction of the building for the school at the farm la Merced in 1941.
Since its founding the school of "San Bartolomé La Merced", has been run by the Society of Jesus.
Until 1997 the school was an all-boys school, later the school entered into a modernization process, turning into a coeducational and bilingual school. The school operates under the guidelines and directions of ACODESI (Association of Jesuit Colleges Colombia), eleven Jesuit Colleges in Colombia. The school is run according to the General Education Colombian Act 115 of 1994, and is an active member of UNCOLI(an organization of international schools in Bogotá).
Alumni
Alumni include:
- Misael Pastrana former President of Colombia
- Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Colombian billionaire, owner of [Grupo Aval]
- Adolfo Carvajal Quelquejeu, politician and industrialist
- Lorenzo García, industrialist
- Enrique Luque Carulla, industrialist, former owner of the Colombian supermarket chain, Carulla
- Fernando Londoño Hoyos, former minister of Colombia
- Juan Camilo Restrepo, former minister of Colombia
- Guillermo Fernández de Soto, former minister of foreign affairs of Colombia
- Anibal Fernández de Soto, former mayor of Bogota
- Augusto Ramirez Ocampo former mayor of Bogota
- Salomón Hakim, neurosurgeon, professor and researcher
- Rene Van Hissenhoven, geologist
- Rodrigo Losada Lora, political scientist
- Fernando Garavito, journalist
- José Fernando Neira, journalist
- Julio Sánchez Cristo, Colombian radio personality
- Hernán Peláez Restrepo, journalist
- Felipe Zuleta Lleras, journalist
- Fernando Hinestroza Forero,attorney, former magistrate of Colombian Supreme Court, Rector Universidad Externado
- Roberto Suárez Franco,attorney
- Rodrigo Noguera Calderón, attorney
- Ernesto Barrera Duque, attorney;
- Diego López Medina, professor
- Cesar Rodríguez Garavito, professor
- Antonio Barreto, professor
- Aquiles Arrieta, professor
- Nicolás del Castillo Mathieu, historian
- Jaime Herrera Pontón, physician
- Jaime Pastrana Arango, physician
- Alejandro Martinez, artists
- Nicolás Montero, artists
- Héctor Osuna, artists
External links
Categories:- Schools in Bogotá
- Jesuit schools
- Roman Catholic schools in Colombia
- Educational institutions established in 1941
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