San José school was founded by La Salle brothers in 1890, in the city of Medellín.
In 1940 the school celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of foundation with all community and the education minister Jorge Eliécer Gaitan.
In 1955 the school changed location from Medellín downtown to a new campus with more commodity than the old one behind Nutibara hotel.
In the same year the school received the Boyacá Cross when brother Ignacio Felipe was the principal.
In 2007 the school changed the location to a modern place with all technologies in La Cola del Zorro, in the district of Poblado in Medellín.