Saint George's College, Santiago

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Saint George's College
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Saint George's College, Santiago
Av. Santa. Cruz 5400

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Coordinates 33°23′02″S70°36′00″W / 33.384°S 70.600°W / -33.384; -70.600
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Type Private School
MottoRecte ad ardua
PrincipalPaula Noemi
GradesKinder-12
Enrollment~2,650
Color(s)Navy blue and Yellow
Team nameGeorgians
Website http://www.saintgeorge.cl/

Saint George's College, founded in 1936 and run by the Congregation of Holy Cross, is a private bilingual school in Santiago, Chile. It is one of the most renowned educational establishments in the country, famous for educating Chile's elite. According to Seminarium, a third of the CEOs of the top 200 companies in Chile are graduates of the school. [1]

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History

Three Holy Cross priests arrived in Santiago, Chile, on March 1, 1943, at the invitation of José María Cardinal Caro, Archbishop of Santiago, to administer Saint George's College. Fathers William Havey, Alfred Send, and Joseph Doherty believed they were going to do university work, not knowing that "college" meant a school of first through 12th graders.

St. George's was the only private school in Chile to be taken over by military government following the September 1973 coup. The Congregation returned to the school in 1986.

Originally an all-boys school, Saint George's College was made co-educational in 1973. It was initially located in the Pedro de Valdivia part of Providencia, in 1970 it was relocated to Vitacura.

Its traditional rival schools are Colegio del Verbo Divino Colegio San Ignacio and Santiago College which were originally located near one another in the Pedro de Valdivia neighborhood of Providencia.

A group of parents and teachers, dissatisfied with the Liberation Theology measures imposed by Father Gerard Whelan during the early 1970s, broke off in 1972 and formed Colegio Tabancura, an Opus Dei-run boys' school.

Campus

Throughout its history, Saint George's College has had two locations, being moved from Providencia to the northern limit of Vitacura. Currently, the campus located in La Pirámide totals 241,086 square meters of land or 60 acres.

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Gymnasium Interior

The school hosts extensive sports facilities, including a multi-sport gymnasium, an athletic track with bleachers with a capacity of 3,000 people, an exercise machine room, volleyball, soccer, basketball, and rugby courts.

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Francis Provenzano Science and Technology Building

The school has multiple study rooms in addition to a three-level library. In 2011, the Science and Technology Building was inaugurated, with rooms equipped with computers, laboratory equipment, and interactive whiteboards in addition to a pre-school laboratory and an auditorium. Thanks to its installation of photovoltaic panels, the building runs 100% on solar energy.

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11º and 12º grade building

Other facilities include the nursery, computer labs, rooms equipped for music and arts, the scout corner (project selected for the Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial), the chapel, the theater, amphitheater, and the 11º and 12º grade building. The school has a casino, commercial cafeteria, two kiosks and a school supplies store.

Notable alumni

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