Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu |
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| Location | |
| Pichilemu, O'Higgins Region, Chile | |
| Coordinates | 34°23′24″S 72°00′32″W / 34.3900°S 72.0089°W |
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| Type | Private State-subsidized, primary and secondary school |
| Established | April 1947 (as Escuela Doctor Eugenio Díaz Lira) |
| Preschool—12 (Cuarto medio) | |
| Enrollment | 534 (2015) |
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Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre is a Chilean private state-subsidized primary and secondary school in the coastal town of Pichilemu. It is also known by the name Preciosa Sangre.
The school ranks first in Cardenal Caro Province, based on the scores from the Prueba de Selección Universitaria (PSU) test, taken each December. The school has been qualified as the "best school in Pichilemu", and "a regional icon" by Region of O'Higgins newspaper El Rancagüino.
It was founded in April 1947 by the Chilean Congregation of the Precious Blood as a girls' school under the name of Escuela Doctor Eugenio Díaz Lira. The school has been fully coeducational since March 1979, and was renamed to its current name in 1986.
The school offers students several extracurricular activities, in the sports, religious and humanistic areas. Cheer C.P.S., Preciosa Sangre's cheerleading squad, has won several national competitions, and has also participated in two international ones. The school's English debate team, reached second position in a regional competition in 2011.
In the 2015 school year, the Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre had an enrollment of 534 students from preschool (pre-kínder) to twelfth grade (cuarto medio) with an average of 38 per grade. The school serves students aged between 4 and 19 years old.
Images for kids
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Portrait of Eugenio Díaz Lira
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Students of the Escuela Doctor Díaz Lira representing the school in a September 18th Parade
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Cristina Barra, pictured here during the inauguration of the preschool building in 2012, was the first teacher to work at the school
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Façade of the Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre secondary building, constructed in 1997
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Mother Loreto Fuentes was the principal of Preciosa Sangre between 2006 and 2012.
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Preciosa Sangre's soccer team, in May 2013
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Mayor of Pichilemu Roberto Córdova, President Sebastián Piñera, and Governor of Cardenal Caro Julio Ibarra, with members of Cheer C.P.S., the school's cheerleading squad, in April 2013.
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Participants of Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre in the 2011 edition of MOEA (Model of the Organization of American States), of the University of Chile's Institute of Public Affairs
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Preciosa Sangre students with four of the six candidates for mayor of Pichilemu after the municipal debate held at the school in October 2012
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Rebeca Cofré Calderón, mayor of Chépica (2008–present), was a Preciosa Sangre student in her childhood
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Jorge Vargas González, former mayor of Pichilemu, is also a former student of Preciosa Sangre
