Collège de la Sainte Famille

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The Collège de la Sainte Famille (CSF) (English: School of the Holy Family), often referred to as the "Jésuites," is a private Jesuit school in Faggala, Daher& Heliopolis districts of Cairo, Egypt. It was founded in 1879, after a request by Pope Leo XIII for a seminary to help prepare students to become priests in the Catholic Church.

1 History
2 System
3 Notable alumni
4 External links

[edit] History

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The College began with a very small sixteen pupils, on 1 October 1879, at the Boghos Palace of Mouski. Thirteen years later (1882), the today college was inaugurated in a corner of Faggala appointed campaign, where was cultivated radish . The current Ramses Street was occupied by the Ismailia Canal, in whose waters are then miraient buildings College. The transportation of students were provided by fiacres. The college then counte 112 students while Cairo half a million inhabitants good classes.

Thereafter, was built successively: the Church (1891), the Theatre (1892), the current building of Preparatory Cycle (1925), the Primary Cycle in Downtown Cairo (1930), and finally the Primary Cycle in Heliopolis (1934). In 1930, the college had 600 students from 14 different nations: Egypt, France, Lebanon, Syria, Italy, Greece, England, Switzerland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Persia.

[edit] System

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The school offers education for boys (mainly in French) from the upper kindergarten to the senior high school level. There are three campuses: The "Petit Collège du Caire" (PCC), the "Petit Collège d'Heliopolis" (PCH), and the "Grand Collège" (GC) located in Ramsis in Dahir. Students enter the PCC or the PCH at the age of 4 or 5, and after six years of primary school, they go to the Grand Collège (GC). The PCC and the PCH have approximately 400 students each and the Grand Collège has 800 students.

The school is well known in Egypt for stressing on discipline through its very rigid rules. Along with the teaching of the French language, the Arabic Language is enforced on an early age and then in primary period of education the English language is introduced. The exams and education is entirely in French even in high school or Thanawiya Amma all exams are written and prepared in French except for the Arabic language exam, History and Geography which are presented in Arabic. The spread of French School in Egypt leads to making the French language as a commonly understood language in Egypt along with English.

[edit] Notable alumni

Youssef Boutros Ghali Egyptian minister of economy
Anouar Abdel Malek Famous thinker and writer
Amin Abaza Egyptian minister of agriculture
Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour member in the Egyptian parliament
Mahmoud Abaza president of Egyptian political party El-Wafd
Mohsen Badawi Egyptian Businessman and Founder & former Chairman of Canada Egypt Business Council
Hisham Selim Egyptian actor and son of Saleh Selim President of Al Ahly club
Ramy Lakah famous Egyptian-French businessman
Ramy Imam Egyptian director and son of Adel Emam famous Egyptian actor.
Hosam Haggag, Engineering Scientist in the Silicon Valley, USA and son of Ibrahim Haggag the Famous Composer and the conductor of the Cairo Symphony Orcestra in the 50's
Ramez Sabet, famous engineer in Houston, TX.
Shady El Mously, video games programmer in Melbourne, Australia.
Raouf Shalaby ex member of the Egyptian senate, vice president of the credit foncier Egyptian bank and president of a Rotary organization.