Ateneo de ManilaAteneo de Manila is a Marked Structure, NHCP located at Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region.
In 1800, Don Pedro Vivanco founded the Escuela Pia de Manila on Calle Real. A private elementary school for Spanish children, run by Spanish laymen and attended, off and on, by some thirty students. After a few years, the Spanish government took over its administration and made Escuela Pia a public school under the Administrative Commission of the City of Manila, and later under the Manila City Council. At that time, Escuela Pia was the only primary school in a city with 100,000 inhabitants. (Source: http://w3.ateneo.edu/index.php?p=673)
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Ateneo de Manila
This was the site of "Escuela Pia" taken over by the Jesuits in 1859 and renamed "Ateneo Municipal de Manila" in 1865. Jose Rizal received from this school, the degree of Bachelor of Arts on March 23, 1877. In 1901 the name was changedto "Ateneo de Manila." on August 13, 1932, the building together with the school museum, library, and equipment, was destroyed by fire, and the classes had to be transferred to the "Colegio de San Jose" on Calle Padre Faura. The present building, to which the Ateneo Grade School returned in June, 1940, was blessed on December 15, 1940.