American School Foundation of Monterrey

American School Foundation of Monterrey

Open Minds, Caring Hearts, Global Leaders
Address

Ave. Ignacio Morones Prieto No. 1500

Col. San Isidro
Santa Catarina, Nuevo León
Mexico
Coordinates 25°39′39″N 100°26′49″W / 25.660772°N 100.446860°W / 25.660772; -100.446860Coordinates: 25°39′39″N 100°26′49″W / 25.660772°N 100.446860°W / 25.660772; -100.446860
Information
Type Private Co-ed International
Established 1928
Dean Dr. Michael Adams
Principal Elementary School Joe Stanzione, Middle School David Scott, High School Catherine Spencer
Campus Director ELEM Joe Stanzione, MSHS Catherine Spencer
Grades N–12
Enrollment 2,315
Campus Urban
Color(s) Red and white
Mascot American bald eagle
Affiliation None
Website

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.

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.

History

ASFM, as the school is known, was founded in 1928 by the ancient dweller 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 .

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 the Missouri Campus, in 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 was used for Nursery through 5th Grade students, however beginning in the school year of 2010 these students switched campuses and are now attending the Huasteca Campus in the newly constructed elementary school and kindergarten campus.

High school profile

For the 2015-2016 school year, the high school enrollment was 634 students (159 seniors, 156 juniors, 156 sophomores and 163 freshmen). 92% of students are Mexican, and the remaining 8% are American and of other nationalities. The high school has a faculty of 59 people, all of whom hold teaching certificates or degrees with around 58% of the faculty and administrative staff having advanced degrees.[1]

99% of the most recent graduating class is attending 4-year universities or colleges after 75% applied to universities in Mexico and 34% applied to universities in the United States and Europe. Some of the universities that these recent graduates are attending (or were accepted to) include: Tufts University, Columbia, the University of Texas, Rice, Brown, the University of Michigan, Cornell, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago, Yale, Purdue, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, University of Notre Dame and Harvard. Most students attending university in Mexico chose to go to Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) or the Universidad de Monterrey.

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.

Facilities

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.. Also, in the 6th grade each student receives an apple computer for a full-year use.

The campus for elementary school (previously called the Missouri Campus) 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.

Another Campus was built to replace the Missouri campus right next to the Huasteca campus, nicknamed "Huastequita". Pre-Kinder-Grade 5 are now given there.

Model UN Program

ASFM houses one of the largest international Model UN conference in Mexico: IMMUNS (International Monterrey Model United Nations Simulation). IMMUNS was established as a brand in 2003 when the high school and middle school Model UN conferences fused into one large event. Traditionally, IMMUNS is held in late February, and involves around 500 local and international students. Previous keynote speakers include Jane Goodall (2003) and Reon Schutte (2009). All the information on this event can be found on the school-founded web-site www.immuns.org

Traditions and athletics

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.

Finances

For the 2015-2016 school year, the school has 2,408 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 monthly tuition at the following rates , in Mexican pesos, for the school year 2015-2016:[2]

For the school 2016-2017, tuition plans will drastically change. From being 8 monthly payments, families will now have 3 option plans.

  1. 1 tuition pay
  2. 11 tuition pays
  3. 12 tuition pays (with 2 double payments)

Notable Alumni

American School Foundation of Monterrey (ASFM) does not have any famous or notable alumni, aside from Armando Gonzalez (Local artist).

On the other hand, numerous alumni from ASFM went on to Ivy league and top-notch universities which is rare for Mexican students.

See also

References and external links

References

  1. ↑ "American School Foundation of Monterrey: School Profile". www.asfm.edu.mx. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  2. ↑ "American School Foundation of Monterrey: Tuition Fees". www.asfm.edu.mx. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
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