History

 

Mrs. Margarita Arzac de Panchuk founded Hamilton School on December 1, 1962, opening its doors to students for the first time at Monte Cáucaso 1245, Lomas de Chapultepec.

In February 1963, Hamilton School initiated its first school year with only 40 students. Soon after, the staff's enthusiasm and love for education started to bear fruit, closing the first school year with twice the number of students.

One year later, the first campus became too small to house both Pre-School and Elementary School. The first class of Elementary School graduates, a total of nine students, had the first graduation ceremony in 1965 at the Alpes 1140 campus.

Five generations of Elementary School graduates had to continue their studies at other schools, but as of 1970, later generations were able to continue on to Junior High School at Hamilton, with the addition of the Castillo de Miramar 45 and Castillo de Chapultepec 100 campuses. Finally, thanks to the completion of the Castillo de Chapultepec 110 campus in 1976, students were able to finish up to the last year of High School at Hamilton.

In 1982, due to Mexico's socio-economic and political situation, Mrs. Panchuk sold Hamilton School; however, as education was her vocation in life, she accepted an invitation to collaborate with Dr. Ernesto Meneses Morales, former Dean of the Universidad Iberoamericana, as researcher and writer of: Tendencias educativas oficiales en México, 1821-1988. During this time, she also became a member of the University's faculty, enrolled in a graduate program in Philosophy and Education, and obtained a Master's Degree in Education.

In 1990, feeling nostalgia for the wonderful profession that had given her life a sense of direction for so long, she decided to resume her path and continue to work with the same enthusiasm and love in educating children and adolescents.

During that same memorable year, she bought Eton School, and together with her associates—Constance Balawender, Margarita Cueli, Yvonne Kogan, and Elizabeth Panchuk—she set the foundations of what, over time, has again become a solid educational institution, with the same philosophy and goals that once characterized Hamilton School, but enriched and updated with the latest, most modern methodologies and didactic strategies. This is how the teaching ideals of several educators came together under the common goal of shaping productive, well-meaning, and personally and socially responsible children and young adults.

Eton has three campuses: Toddler Center, in Alpes 1140; Early Childhood, in Alpes 605, both in Lomas de Chapultepec area, and Elementary and Jr & Sr High School in Santa Fe, in the school area of this modern development, west of Mexico City.

As any other person or institution that has enjoyed many years of life, Eton has had a long history of happy and sad moments, difficulties and successes, but in any event, they were all memorable. Undoubtedly, obstacles were overcome thanks to the Eton community: students and parents, who gave us their vote of confidence; teachers, directors and other personnel, who with great love, dedication and enthusiasm for their work, have been the unbreakable pillars that have sustained this Educational Center.