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Brazil
Name and Address of School		Head of School
Instituto Imaculada Conceição		Ir. Cecília do Carmo Batista de Moraes
Rua Cel. Pedro Dias Batista, 1396

Itapetininga - SP

BR-182200-000
Phone	+55 (15) 3271-0227	Fax	+55 (15) 3271 6287
e-mail
Web Site	www.imaculadaconceicao.com.br
Type of School	Day	Co-Ed	yes
Number of Students	347	Age range	1 - 17
Male	166	Number of teaching Staff	37
Female	181	Staff of Religious Order	2
Religious Diversity	95% Catholics – 5% other religions
Ethnic Diversity	Brazilians
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School Statement
HISTORY OF IMMACULATE CONCEIÇÃO INSTITUTE I It was in 1920 that the first sisters, sent for the Priorate of Saint Scholastic - Sorocaba, founded the “Immaculate Conceição Institute”, in Itapetininga. Some of these sisters had initiated on January 15th,1920 a Catholic School with Elementary education. It started its activities in a small building on Quintino Bocaiúva Street, where there is a parking lot nowadays. The known “Nuns' college” taught several courses. On May 1st, 1921, due to the lack of place, the sisters rented a second house close to the first one, to where the school was moved, the kindergarten, the painting studio and the musical conservatory. In 1923, once again it was necessary to find a new place. So, the Immaculate Conceição Institute surpassed its difficulties, overtaking a lot of problems, even transformed itself in an improvised Military Hospital from 1930 to 1932. It offered a good service and a spiritual recuperation to several wounded soldiers. In 1997, the Institute had received students from Nursery School, Elementary Education and Secondary Education, working for 77 years for the community. Nowadays, the Missionary Benedictines sisters of Tutzing, who have been in Brazil since 1903, do this job supported by the Scriptures and Saint Benedict's Rule, living the Mission Ideal, Prayer and Community Life, integrating this ideal to their children and teens' education. The Institute and its teachers, as assistant agent of the Educative Process, will never lose of sight the objective of providing to each student total education, thinking about people's valuation with God, with themselves and with the other, intending to live in a process of Liberating-Evangelic Education.
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