St. Ignatius College, Barcelona Catalan: Jesuïtes Sarrià-Sant Ignasi
Address
Carrasco i Formiguera 32 Barcelona , Catalonia Spain
Coordinates	41°24′12″N 2°07′16″E / 41.403467°N 2.121133°E / 41.403467; 2.121133
Information
Type	Private primary and secondary and vocational training centre
Religious affiliation(s)	Catholicism
Denomination	Jesuit
Patron saint(s)	Ignatius Loyola
Established	1892; 133 years ago (1892)
Grades	K-12; including Spanish Baccalaureate with vocational training
Gender	Co-educational
Enrollment	3,000
Website	www.santignasi.fje.edu
A view of the College, in 2013

St. Ignatius College (Catalan: Jesuïtes Sarrià-Sant Ignasi) is a private Catholic primary and secondary school and vocational training facility, located in the Sarrià neighbourhood of Barcelona, in Catalonia, an autonomous community in the northeastern corner of Spain. The school was founded in 1892 by the Society of Jesus.^[1]

St. Ignatius College currently offers kindergarten, primary, secondary high school, and vocational training; the compulsory part is government subsidized.^{[citation needed]}

The centre began as a boarding school in a rented municipal building in Manresa, which was evacuated after a misunderstanding between the Council and the Jesuits.^{[citation needed]}

In 1892 the Jesuits bought the Gardeny property, consisting of a house and extensive gardens. An annex was built and classes began the same year. The current building was built between 1893 and 1896, and opened in 1895 unfinished (completed between 1915 and 1926). It was originally a boarding school but began admitting external students in 1905. In 1907 it had 20 teachers and 230 students, mostly boarders.^{[citation needed]}

The school was closed in 1914 so that the facility could accommodate the Jesuit houses of philosophical and theological studies for the priesthood, but it reopened in 1927.^{[citation needed]}

During the Second Republic as a result of the decree of expulsion of the Jesuits, the Government made it a public school until the end of the Civil War.

After 1939 the school was returned to the Jesuits and began to operate normally. Its enrollment was high in 1949, with a steady growth in students.^[2] The school currently has about 3,000 students.^{[citation needed]}

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (June 2021)

• Alberto Fernández Díaz^[3]
• Andrés Iniesta^[4]
• Rafael Ribó
• Xavier Trias
• Carlos Ruiz Zafón

La Fugida

• Catholic Church in Spain
• Education in Catalan
• List of Jesuit schools

• Yetano, Ana. The religious educational institution in the Spain of the Restoration (1900-1920). Anthropos Editorial, 1 January 1988, p. 216-. ISBN 978-84-7658-062-2.

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