Colegio Americano de Torreón

Colegio Americano de Torreón is a school in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.[1]

History

The school was established in 1950.[2] It opened in September of that year in a house owned by the mining company Peñoles. Diego Piña was the school's first director. From the beginning it was accredited by the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (SES) and initially it had four teachers with 38 students. In 1954 the school received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SAS) and moved to 20 Escobedo Avenue. By then it had 666 students. [3]

For a period of time the school occupied the Torreón Jardín Campus, housing all grade levels there. Alumnus Efrain Lopez Garza donated the land used for the current campus in 1998. CAT's current middle and high school building opened in 2001. Elementary school facilities remained at the previous campus until June 2006, when a new elementary facility that began construction in 2004 opened.[4]

Campus

The current campus is located on an approximately 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) plot of land. The middle and high school building houses the school's administrative offices, as well as twenty six classrooms, one library, one gymnasium, three computer labs, and seven science facilities. The elementary campus came with its own library, cafeteria, and two gymnasiums. 2016 Shooting There was a school shooting on campus on 2016. The authors Eduardo Casale, Dante Perez and Pedro Schmal Bañuelas committed suicide, Dantes last words were : Bonsai. Casale got its own mafia the tomatoes and got an A plus on American Culture[4]

Aswell CAT has a lovely school mascot called Javi Chass and he is dressed as a cat. Also it has a pool full of virus and bacterias where the world's worst diseases are generated, it is said that COVID-19 was born from this dirty pool.

References
  1. "Location Archived 2016-06-27 at the Wayback Machine." Colegio Americano de Torreón. Retrieved on November 1, 2016. "Local Address of School Paseo del Algodón 500, Los Viñedos. Torreón, Coahuila C.P. 27019, México"
  2. "Introduction Archived 2016-09-08 at the Wayback Machine." Colegio Americano DE Torreón. Retrieved on November 1, 2016.
  3. "Our Beginning Archived 2016-06-27 at the Wayback Machine." Colegio Americano de Torreón. Retrieved on November 1, 2016.
  4. "Los Videos Campus Archived 2016-06-27 at the Wayback Machine." Colegio Americano DE Torreón. Retrieved on November 2, 2016.


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