I.D.E.S. (private) has the Common Cycle on General Culture option with the majors of Business Administration, CCLL and Marketing Technician, CCLL and Computing technician. El ITECC (private) offers the Common cycle with Computing and the majors of Business Administration and CCLL and Computing Technician. Instituto Luz del Milenio (private) Public schools Escuela Dr. Miguel Paz Barahona Escuela Laura Vda. de Alcocer Escuela Margarita Suazo de Matamoros Escuela Donaldo Sabillon Vasquez Private schools: Cofradia's Bilingual School – CBS was founded in 1997 and is dedicated to offering a bilingual education (Spanish, English) to children from all social levels in the community. No application is ever denied on the basis of inability to pay tuition. CBS recruits volunteer teachers from all over the developed world every year to bring a global reality to all the students and operates in partnership with the Hope for Tomorrow foundation (501)(c)(3) in Massachusetts to ensure that the poorer students continue to receive the same opportunities as their more affluent classmates. The school also has a partnership with Crescent School in Canada, in which students from Crescent help on projects and teaching around the school. 143 out of the 210 students enrolled in 2006 are receiving scholarship assistance. San Jeronimo Bilingual School – a nonprofit bilingual school operated collaboratively by a local association of Hondurans and the US based non-profit "BECA" (www.becaschools.org). BECA's mission is to promote cultural exchange and affordable bilingual education. The organisation's volunteer driven bilingual school model creates an environment in which deserving Central American students learn from dedicated volunteer teachers, and those volunteers learn from the community in which they are immersed. SJBS is proud to be a true example of sustainable international development work in practice. Escuela Luz Milenium Kindergartens: Lila Luz de Maradiaga (public) Academies: Academia de Corte y Confección (private academy for clothes design) Demography Counting together the urban centre of Cofradia and what are now 25 colonias (suburbs or outlying neighbourhoods), Cofradia has grown by a factor of more than 35 in the last century: 1906: 412 inhabitants 1983: 3,249 inhabitants 1993: 8,213 inhabitants 2001: 15,000 inhabitants, with approximately 2,473 dwellings. Colonias Col. 9 de Mayo Col. 24 de Abril Col. Arévalo Bo. El Centro Ojo de Agua No. 2 San Bartolo Col. Matamoros Col. Ojo de Agua No. 1 Col. Vida Nueva Col. Roberto Micheletti Col. Los Ángeles Col. Gracias A Dios Col. Rivera Fajardo Col. Victoria Col.