Colegio Nacional de Monserrat is a public college preparatory high school in Córdoba, Argentina. Patterened after the European gymnasium, the school is the second oldest of its type and one of the most prestigious in Argentina.OverviewThe College of Monserrat includes both a high school and a middle school. The former is organized in nine departments: Philosophy, Social Sciences, History/Geography, Letters, Exact Sciences, Natural Sciences, Arts, Physical Education, and Humanities. The school maintains the Professor Alfredo Ruibal Library, with almost 20,000 volumes, and the Historical Museum. The school is administered by a Secondary Educational Level Advisory Board composed of the Director of the College (who presides), the Academic Deputy, a Regent, the teaching faculty (represented by nine members, six professors, two tutors, and a professor or teacher as faculty representative), two student representatives, a non-faculty staffer, and a parent.The Middle School Level is governed by the Director, a Deputy, and a Regent, as well as a delegation of three teachers, an assistant teacher, and a student representative.