Colegio Salesiano de Leon XIII

The Department of Education Bogotá, puts the campus as a place of very high level of education in the country, since in his hundred and twenty-year history has developed and demonstrated the process to make children and young people as well (good Christians and honest citizens) The Salesian School of Leo XIII was founded on 1 September 1890, a total of 50 students, and as a matter of boarding.

The foundation Salesian had been requested to San Juan Bosco repeatedly since 1882 by the bishop of Cartagena, Monsignor Eugene Biffi, and since 1886 by the Colombian government that presided Dr. Rafael Núñez.

Therefore, the government requested another venue, and on 1 September 1890 the school began in the field of the first courtyard of the old Convent of Carmen, coexisting with the existing military hospital there until 1892.

The College of Leo XIII was only like classical school and the following year, 1958, began to accept foreign students who were growing in number until boarding disappeared in 1972.

In 1973, Father Mario Peresson, as director, welcomed the group JuHer (youth, unity and heroism), headed by Camilo alumnus Orbs and he began the evening classes that, the following year (1974), were fully assumed by the school.

These evening courses were approved in 1975 by the name of Don Bosco Institute Nocturne and in that same year the school principal, Father Mario Z. Reyes, began the primary section.

Throughout history, the school has been complemented in its different sections, merging them under a single leadership, faithful to the Salesian educational system and always looking not only to expand its coverage, but to do a job too background of Christianity of the students and their families.

Today the Salesian College of Leo XIII has two locations in houses where up to 1,000 students each Basic Education Primary and Secondary School, one of the reasons of Excellence Award was the development of programs such as Associations, is a series of mandatory activities where young chooses a group of interest (in total there are 42 groups) and develops the weekends to supplement their education.