Anglo-Peruvian School

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The Anglo-Peruvian School was founded in 1917 by John A. Mackay, a Scottish missionary who was later responsible for the YMCA in Latin America and president of Princeton Theological Seminary. On 13th July 1917 Dr. Mackay was given permission to found the Anglo-Peruvian School which, after rapid growth, became Colegio Anglo-Peruano on May 12th 1919. Because of legal requirements during the Second World War the name of the school was changed to the one it bears to this day, Colegio San Andrés . Since 1930 the school has been on its present site at Avenida Du Petit Thouars 179, Santa Beatriz, Lima.

From its foundation the school has been under the auspices of the Foreign Mission Board of the Free Church of Scotland and has always sought to promote and maintain the Biblical world and life view embraced by the church. The aim of the school is to provide an integrated education based on the teachings of the Word of God. This is reflected in the motto of the school:

INITIUM SAPIENTIAE TIMOR DOMINI

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

(Proverbs 1: 7)