Colegio Internacional, Private educational institution in Las Mercedes neighborhood, Asunción, Paraguay
Colegio Internacional is a private school in the Las Mercedes neighborhood of Asunción that operates across three educational levels: preschool, elementary, and secondary. The curriculum follows Paraguay's Ministry of Education standards for all students in these three levels.
Clement Morton and his wife arrived in Asunción in 1918, sent by the Missionary Board of the Disciples of Christ in Indianapolis to found a school. Classes began on March 1, 1920, with 48 pupils in four classes; it was Paraguay's first coeducational school and was named Colegio Internacional for the good relations between Paraguay and the United States. During the Chaco War (1932–1935) the building served as a military hospital.
The school's annual Olympiads are held in the first week of October, with classes suspended. Students from the third cycle and secondary level are assigned at random upon entering seventh grade to the Red or White team, and points from sports and cultural activities decide the winner.
The school sits in the Las Mercedes neighborhood of Asunción, at the coordinates -25.28950, -57.61560. Its campus is organised around three teaching levels: preschool, basic school education and secondary level, with two secondary tracks, the Bachillerato Científico and the Bachillerato Técnico. The school also holds a 28-hectare camp acquired in 1949 about two kilometres from Caacupé, on the road to Tobatí.
The school's name honours the good relations between Paraguay and the United States, and its founders were Clement Morton and his wife, sent from Indianapolis in 1918 by the Disciples of Christ mission board. In 1949 the school acquired a 28-hectare plot two kilometres from Caacupé, on the road to Tobatí, for a camp.
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