John_XXIII_College,_Cochabamba
John XXIII College, Cochabamba
Private secondary school in Cochabamba, Cercado, Bolivia
John XXIII College (Spanish: Colegio Juan XXIII) is a private Catholic secondary school, located in Cochabamba, Cercado, Bolivia. The school was founded by Fr. Enrique Conraets in 1964 in La Paz, and follows a work-study model. In 1969, the school with all the interns moved to Cochabamba and in 1971, the Jesuits took the administration of the school as the founder left for Belgium.
At the beginning, most of its students came from low-income families in mining towns.[3] At the present time,[when?] the students still come from low-income families, but since 2007 the internship has been closed and the students come from the area between Cochabamba city and the little towns in the road to Oruro city.