Colegio Franco Español, French international school in Huipulco, Tlalpan, Mexico.
Colegio Franco Español is a private school at 88 Calzada México Xochimilco in the San Lorenzo Huipulco colonia of Tlalpan, Mexico City. It teaches preschool through preparatoria (high school) levels on a single campus.
The Colegio Franco Español opened on 16 January 1936 at 99 Paseo de la Reforma in Colonia Juárez, founded by professionals including French national R.J. Capdeville and Spaniard Antonio Gutiérrez L. Construction of new facilities on the former Hacienda de Guadalupe at 1967 Av. Insurgentes began in 1938, and UNAM incorporated the school on 12 February 1941. Classes at that campus started in the 1942-1943 school year; the school later moved to Coyoacán and, in 1988, to 88 Calzada México Xochimilco.
The name combines "Franco" and "Español" because the founders included the French national R.J. Capdeville and the Spaniard Antonio Gutiérrez L. The school has been coeducational since 1977, after a period as a boys-only institution from the late 1950s. Its current campus sits on the grounds of the former Hacienda de Guadalupe.
The school has occupied its site at 88 Calzada México Xochimilco in San Lorenzo Huipulco, Tlalpan, since 1988; earlier campuses stood at 99 Paseo de la Reforma, 1967 Av. Insurgentes and Av. Miguel Ángel de Quevedo. It is a private institution, so access is arranged with the school rather than open to the public.
The school's first home was at 99 Paseo de la Reforma in Colonia Juárez; it moved to the former Hacienda de Guadalupe on Av. Insurgentes in 1938, where classes began in the 1942–1943 year. Its current Calzada México Xochimilco site dates from 1988.
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