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Colegio Williams (Williams College) is a private school in south-central Mexico City. Mexico City (in Spanish: Ciudad de México, México DF, México or simply Méjico) is the Capital city of Mexico It is located in the Benito Juárez borough, in the area of Mixcoac. Benito Pablo Juárez García (benit̪o paβ̞lo xwaɾes gaɾsia ( March 21, 1806 – July 18, 1872) was a Zapotec Amerindian It was founded in 1899 by British educator and traveler Camilo John Williams, in the area of Tacubaya (very close to its current location). Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common It was at first an all-day school, including a boarding house. The school was all in English; even Catholic events were held in English. It was considered the best school in Mexico, for several years, mainly because of its high level of English, being the first school in Mexico and Latin America, in having English as an actual subject. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America.

Around 1904-1905, the school changed to its current location, to what used to be the summer house of José Yves Limantour the Finance Minister of President Porfirio Díaz. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting José Yves Limantour (1854-1935 Secretary of the Finance of Mexico from 1893 until the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime in 1911 José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican politician ( September 15, 1830 – 2 July 1915) that would later become the president of Mexico The summer house is built in neoclassical English style, emulating a small castle in the Highlands. Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century both as a reaction against the Rococo Mr. Williams was by that time an influential person in the educational board, established by Justo Sierra. Justo Sierra Méndez ( Campeche, México January 26, 1848 - Madrid, Spain September 13,

When Camilo died, the school was taken over by Johnny Williams, his son. During this phase, the school lived through its "Golden Years", obtaining prestigious awards in matters of education, and even being recognized outside Mexico by the Philadelphia City Council board of schools. After Johnny's death, his brother Charles took over as principal. Though his period didn't last long, the importance of his work was the transformation of the school from being all-boys to becoming co-educational, and also the elimination of the boarding house and school, and the process of opening the preparatory school. Mixed-sex education, (or just Mixed education) also known as Coeducation, is the integrated education to males and females at the same school facilities After Charles's death, Arturo, Johnny's son, became the new principal. He remains the principal until today. He has faced tough times at the school: the reduction of the school grounds (it at first occupied a whole block of the area, right now is just a third part of what it was in that time; ancient parts of the school are now being used by Telmex and a Comercial Mexicana supermarket), the construction of the Mixcoac Mexico City metro station in front of the school, the increase of the delinquency around the Mixcoac area, and the struggling with other anglo schools. Teléfonos de México SAB de CV ( better known as Telmex, is a Mexican Telecommunications Company that provides telecommunication Comercial Mexicana is a Mexican Hypermarket group which features stores similar to those owned by Wal-Mart in the United States or The Mexico City Metro (formally Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro or STC Metro) is a Rubber-tyred metro system that serves As a solution of the reduction of the original school area , he established 2 more campuses: one with a new elementary school and the kindergarten in the southern part of the city in San Jeronimo in the Magdalena Contreras borough, and a didactic farm and sporting grounds in the Tlalpan borough, near Mount Ajusco. Magdalena Contreras is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs into which Mexico 's Federal District is divided Tlalpan is the largest of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs into which Mexico 's Federal District ( Mexico City) is divided Ajusco (3930m is a Volcano located in the south of Mexico City, Mexico in the Tlalpan burrough of the city

As part of its modernization process, the school has just entered the IBO international education programme.

The school has had notable visitors to give lectures, talk about their experiences or even exhibit their recent works, being these of music, literature or painting.

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Notable alumni


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Francisco Gabilondo Soler ( October 6, 1907, Orizaba, Veracruz - December 14, 1990, Texcoco) was a Mexican composer
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