Instituto México de B.C. is a private Catholic preparatory school located in the city of Tijuana

Tijuana

Tijuana is the largest city on the Baja California Peninsula and center of the Tijuana metropolitan area, part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. An industrial and financial center of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on economics, education, culture, art, and politics...

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Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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History

As a first step, the Instituto México de B.C. civil association was constituted on June 13, 1963. The school's inauguration was held on September 6, 1965 and its students numbered 204 students from 3rd to 6th grade. For the next seven years the school continued to expand until it included the 12th grade.

Status

In 2008 the Mexican federal government applied a test to alumni of all schools in the country (totalling 13 million students) to measure level of knowledge and abilities, and according to the results Insituto México ranked 30th in the country and 1st in the state (Baja California).