[1] The school was named after Don Alejandro Ramírez, general superintendent and director of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country.

[1] It is the educational center with the largest number of years building the teaching on the lands of Latin America, preceded only by the University of Havana.

It turned-from a number of changes that occurred in Spain in the 19th century and not surprisingly was felt in the colonies, in the climate of the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 and enlightened absolutism.

Its first director, Juan Bautista Vermay, who arrived in Cuba when the Bonaparte empire collapsed, when he was 31 years old.

These are the Deans of Drawing, Painting, Engraving, Sculpture, Ceramics, Jewelry, Graphic Arts and Theoretical-Cultural Teachings.