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| Motto | For courage, faith, and truth |
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| Established | 1828 |
| Type | Private Co-ed International |
| Affiliation | None |
| Headmaster | Jeff Keller |
| Students | 20,315 |
| Grades | N–12 |
| Location | Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Red and White |
| Mascot | American Bald Eagle |
| Website | [1] |
The American School Foundation of Monterrey is a private, international, nonprofit, and co-educational Nursery-12 school located in Monterrey, Mexico. It is one of a few American-style educational centers in this city and is notable for being the oldest one of that group.
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ASFM, as the school is known, was founded in 1928[2] by parents from the Monterrey Foreign Club in reaction to the need for children of foreign (mainly American) workers in Monterrey to have an American-style education in order to eventually return seamlessly to the United States. The school received its charter on October 13, 1928 and was re-established as the American School Foundation of Monterrey in April 1944[3].
It was during this re-establishment that the Founders' Board was established with four founding individuals and thirteen sponsoring companies. The organization was created as a non-profit society, hence the inclusion of the word Foundation in the name. In 1948, ASFM received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Texas Education agency. The school moved to its one of its present locations, the Missouri Campus, on September 1958, when its enrollment had exceeded 450 students.
The school's reputation improved over time and it remained the school of choice for the children of foreign workers that relocated to Monterrey. As the city's influx of foreigners increased, the need for an international education became paramount. Thus in 1996 in order to accommodate this increasing demand, ASFM built a new campus for Middle and High School students. This new state-of-the-art facility built in the Huasteca Canyon attracted many new students and launched ASFM into its present era. The Missouri Campus is now used for Nursery through 5th Grade students though in the next couple of years these students will also move to the Huasteca Campus as construction of an Elementary School and Kindergarten is completed.
For the 2007-2008 school year, the high school enrollment is 561 students (128 Seniors, 134 Juniors, 136 Sophomores and 163 Freshmen). 90% of students are Mexican, and the remaining 10% are American and of other nationalities. The High School has a faculty of 45 people, all of whom hold teaching certificates or degrees with around 54% of the faculty and administrative staff having advanced degrees.[4]
100% of the most recent graduating class is attending 4-year universities or colleges after 76% applied to universities in Mexico and 66% applied to universities in the United States. Some of the universities that these recent graduates are attending (or were accepted to) include: Tufts University, Columbia, the University of Texas, Brown, the University of Michigan, Cornell, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago, Yale, Purdue, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. Most students attending university in Mexico chose to go to Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) or the Universidad de Monterrey.[5]
The High School is notable for its Advanced Placement program. It offers around 15 AP courses and its students year after year take more AP exams than any other school in Latin America. 330 exams were taken last year with 247 scoring passing grades of 3 or better. The School's mean score was 3.461 while the global mean score was 3.015. As for SAT scores, the school's averages are 553 Reading, 581 Math, 536 Writing for a Composite Score of 1670.[6]
The Huasteca Campus, presently housing High School and Middle School students, features 10 fully equipped science labs, 6 computer labs, 62 teaching classrooms, a black-box theater, a 500-seat auditorium, and a 14,000-volume library with 28 eMacs and 13 wireless iBooks for student use. The Athletic Department features an indoor gymnasium with two parquet-floored basketball courts, two regulation-sized soccer fields, one 8-lane athletics track, 3 outdoor concrete-floor basketball courts, a fully equipped conditioning gym and several other training rooms as well as four full locker rooms.[7]
The Missouri Campus[8] is for students in nursery-grade 5 and has 66 classrooms, 4 state-of-the-art computer labs, counseling offices, a maintenance building, 2 houses, one currently used for the administrative offices and the other for a developmental nursery program, a 250-seat theater, 3 playing fields, 2 outdoor tennis courts and an instrumental music room.
The school's mascot is the American Bald Eagle and the colors are Red and White. ASFM participates in yearly sports tournaments sponsored by the Association of American Schools in Mexico (ASOMEX). It competes in Soccer, Basketball, Track and Field and in several other sports. The school has a healthy rivalry with other bilingual schools in the city, the Colegio Inglés and AIM, stemming from the continuous success of both schools in Soccer tournaments held by ASOMEX. ASFM is deeply committed to ASOMEX and during the tournaments held in Monterrey the entire school comes out in support of its teams.
The School also issues several awards each year.
For the 2007-2008 school year, the school had 2,317 students with 466 nursery through kindergarten students, 808 elementary school students 482 middle school students and 561 high school students. In terms of finances, 97% of the school's income stems from tuition at the following rates[13], in U.S. Dollars, for the school year 2007-2008:
There is a one-time entrance contribution fee of $6,000 for new students.[14]
The school year is 2 semesters going from August to December and from January to June[15]. The school is governed by a Founders' Board which meets twice a year and that elects a Board of Directors serving as the school's Board of Education. This Board is constituted of 9 members serving 3 year terms each with an alternate member.
All instruction is in English except for Spanish classes. For grades 10th to 12th there are two courses of study, one leading to a Mexican Bachillerato and the other to a U.S. High School Diploma. Students can choose either to follow just the U.S. Diploma or both courses. The option to do the Mexican Bachillerato alone is not offered.[16]
ASFM hosts the International Monterrey Model United Nations Simulation or IMMUNS [17] one of the largest Model United Nations simulations in Latin America, under an MUN program which started 9 years ago. Notable within the simulation is the guest speaker series which has hosted former candidate for Governor of Nuevo León Luis Eugenio Todd, former Mexican Presidential Candidate and current president of the Mexican Senate Diego Fernández de Cevallos, former Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Manuel Tello, Dr. Jane Goodall, and members of the United Nations Secretariat like Harris Gleckman and Sanjay Acharya, as well as Janet Chow and Sandra Jimenez.
| Motto | For courage, faith, and truth |
|---|---|
| Established | 1928 |
| Type | Private Co-ed International |
| Affiliation | None |
| Headmaster | Jeff Keller |
| Students | 2,315 |
| Grades | N–12 |
| Location | Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Red and White |
| Mascot | American Bald Eagle |
| Website | [1] |
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ASFM, as the school is known, was founded in 1928 [2] by parents from the Monterrey Foreign Club in reaction to the need for children of foreign (mainly American) workers in Monterrey to have an American-style education in order to eventually return seamlessly to the United States. The school received its charter on October 13, 1928 and was re-established as the American School Foundation of Monterrey in April 1944 [3].
It was during this re-establishment that the Founders' Board was established with four founding individuals and thirteen sponsoring companies. The organization was created as a non-profit society, hence the inclusion of the word Foundation in the name. In 1948, ASFM received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Texas Education agency. The school moved to its one of its present locations, the Missouri Campus, on September 1958, when its enrollment had exceeded 450 students.
The school's reputation improved over time and it remained the school of choice for the children of foreign workers that relocated to Monterrey. As the city's influx of foreigners increased, the need for an international education became paramount. Thus in 1996 in order to accommodate this increasing demand, ASFM built a new campus for Middle and High School students. This new state-of-the-art facility built in the Huasteca Canyon attracted many new students and launched ASFM into its present era. The Missouri Campus is now used for Nursery through 5th Grade students though in the next couple of years these students will also move to the Huasteca Campus as construction of an Elementary School and Kindergarten is completed.
For the 2007-2008 school year, the high school enrollment is 561 students (128 Seniors, 134 Juniors, 136 Sophomores and 163 Freshmen). 90% of students are Mexican, and the remaining 10% are American and of other nationalities. The High School has a faculty of 45 people, all of whom hold teaching certificates or degrees with around 54% of the faculty and administrative staff having advanced degrees.[4]
100% of the most recent graduating class is attending 4-year universities or colleges after 76% applied to universities in Mexico and 66% applied to universities in the United States. Some of the universities that these recent graduates are attending (or were accepted to) include: Tufts University, Columbia, the University of Texas, Brown, the University of Michigan, Cornell, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago, Yale, Purdue, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. Most students attending university in Mexico chose to go to Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) or the Universidad de Monterrey.[5]
The High School is notable for its Advanced Placement program. It offers around 15 AP courses and its students year after year take more AP exams than any other school in Latin America. 330 exams were taken last year with 247 scoring passing grades of 3 or better. The School's mean score was 3.461 while the global mean score was 3.015. As for SAT scores, the school's averages are 553 Reading, 581 Math, 536 Writing for a Composite Score of 1670.[6]
The Huasteca Campus, presently housing High School and Middle School students, features 10 fully equipped science labs, 6 computer labs, 62 teaching classrooms, a black-box theater, a 500-seat auditorium, and a 14,000-volume library with 28 eMacs and 13 wireless iBooks for student use. The Athletic Department features an indoor gymnasium with two parquet-floored basketball courts, two regulation-sized soccer fields, one 8-lane athletics track, 3 outdoor concrete-floor basketball courts, a fully equipped conditioning gym and several other training rooms as well as four full locker rooms.[7]
The Missouri Campus [8] is for students in nursery-grade 5 and has 66 classrooms, 4 state-of-the-art computer labs, counseling offices, a maintenance building, 2 houses, one currently used for the administrative offices and the other for a developmental nursery program, a 250-seat theater, 3 playing fields, 2 outdoor tennis courts and an instrumental music room.
The school's mascot is the American Bald Eagle and the colors are Red and White. ASFM participates in yearly sports tournaments sponsored by the Association of American Schools in Mexico (ASOMEX). It competes in Soccer, Basketball, Track and Field and in several other sports. The school has a healthy rivalry with other bilingual schools in the city, the Colegio Inglés and AIM, stemming from the continuous success of both schools in Soccer tournaments held by ASOMEX. ASFM is deeply committed to ASOMEX and during the tournaments held in Monterrey the entire school comes out in support of its teams.
The School also issues several awards each year.
For the 2007-2008 school year, the school had 2,317 students with 466 nursery through kindergarten students, 808 elementary school students 482 middle school students and 561 high school students. In terms of finances, 97% of the school's income stems from tuition at the following rates [13], in U.S. Dollars, for the school year 2007-2008:
There is a one-time entrance contribution fee of $6,000 for new students.[14]
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The school year is 2 semesters going from August to December and from January to June [15]. The school is governed by a Founders' Board which meets twice a year and that elects a Board of Directors serving as the school's Board of Education. This Board is constituted of 9 members serving 3 year terms each with an alternate member.
All instruction is in English except for Spanish classes. For grades 10th to 12th there are two courses of study, one leading to a Mexican Bachillerato and the other to a U.S. High School Diploma. Students can choose either to follow just the U.S. Diploma or both courses. The option to do the Mexican Bachillerato alone is not offered.[16]
ASFM hosts the International Monterrey Model United Nations Simulation or IMMUNS [17] one of the largest Model United Nations simulations in Latin America, under an MUN program which started 9 years ago. Notable within the simulation is the guest speaker series which has hosted former candidate for Governor of Nuevo León Luis Eugenio Todd, former Mexican Presidential Candidate and current president of the Mexican Senate Diego Fernández de Cevallos, former Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Manuel Tello, Dr. Jane Goodall, and members of the United Nations Secretariat like Harris Gleckman and Sanjay Acharya, as well as Janet Chow and Sandra Jimenez.
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