Liceo Salvadoreño
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Liceo Salvadoreño is a private Catholic educational institution located in San Salvador
San Salvador
The city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...

, El Salvador
El Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

. The School is under the guidance of the Marist Brothers
Marist Brothers
The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people. The order was founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary...

 (Rome) since 1924.

The school has over 2,000 students divided in two shifts, morning and afternoon:
  • Morning: Elementary school, Middle school
  • Afternoon: High school


The school has the reputation of being an elite school when it comes to education and sports (their basketball team has won 34 national school titles as well as in track and field and soccer) and its students have received the highest scores in the Learning and Academic Aptitude Test (PAES for its initials in Spanish) since the test's first application in 1997.

Many Ex Liceistas (as their alumni are known) have become important personalities in El Salvador such as: the writer Salvador Salazar Arrue (best known as Salarrué
Salarrué
Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué , known as Salarrué , was a Salvadoran writer, poet and painter...

), former president José Napoleón Duarte
José Napoleón Duarte
José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes was a Salvadoran political figure who, from March 3, 1980, to 1982, led the civil-military Revolutionary Government Junta that took power in a 1979 coup d'état...

and many other salvadoran politicians and business men.
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