Escuela Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas

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The 'Escuela Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas, founded in 1946 as the Escuela Preparatoria Federal por Cooperación, is one of the most prominent high schools in Tijuana, and the only one in Mexico under federal administration. It is also regarded as having one of the highest levels of enrollment in the state^{[citation needed]}. Each year, approximately 3000 secondary school students fill up application forms and the correpsondent admission exams in order to enter the school. At the end of the process only 50% of the applicants get a place at the school's classrooms.

In the last years this high school has been known to have achieved a lower amount of graduated student where only an approximate of a third of the students that join manage to enter any university on the country^{[citation needed]}. As many of the students and professors say, "Lázaro Cardenas is just a shadow of what it used to be, it only lives because of the actions it left on our city and our country"^{[citation needed]}.

PFLC also has a system known as the BI, Bachillerato Internacional (IB Diploma Programme), which trains high IQ students.

[edit] Cultural heritage

PFLC is built on top of the old Agua Caliente Casino and Hotel, open during the prohibition era. It has also been said many times that PFLC has old access tunnels that were used to bring alcohol from the other side but none have been found to this date.

What is left of the Agua Caliente Casino are the Minaret, which has been refurbished, the pool which is used by students to talk or do homework and some of the old benches from the same era. Due to state laws PFLC is not able to modify the pool because it is considered national heritage and it has been left untouched, but is now under recontrucction to be the new pool of the school.