for these members to Juárez Academy encouraged its diversification. Additionally, the Church expanded its educational program. It ran elementary schools in various places in Mexico and opened a high school in Mexico City, Centro Escolar Benemerito De Las Americas, in 1964. The curriculum changed in accordance with Mexican law, with off-campus religious instruction. Campus culture changed as schools celebrated Mexican holidays and included Mexican culture in its curriculum. In 1967, Hispanic students made up 50% of the student body. Benemerito De Las Americas closed in 2013 when the campus was converted into a Missionary Training Center. As of 2014, 400 students attended Juárez Academy. Most students are Latin American, and about seventy-five percent are LDS. Pacific Islands Initially, schools in the Pacific Islands were run by missionaries and directed by mission presidents. The Pacific Board of Education was organized in June 1957 to oversee the schools in the Pacific Islands. Wendell B. Mendenhall was the first chairman of the board, with Owen J. Cook as executive secretary. The Pacific Board of Education approved faculty, wrote policies, and defined budgets. Each school in Pacific Islands has its own president/principal and administrative board. The schools under the Pacific Board of Education were transferred to the Church Board of Education in 1964. In the 1970s, under the leadership of Neal A. Maxwell, church schools in the Pacific started to hire administrators from local members, in contrast to the previously American administrators. Moroni High School (Kiribati) Church Primary School Fiji (Fiji) Church College Fiji (Fiji) Church College Pesega (Samoa) Church College Vaiola (Samoa) Sauniatu Primary School (Samoa) Vaiola Primary School (Samoa) Pesega Middle School (Samoa) Liahona High School (Tonga) Saineha High School (Tonga) Liahona Middle School (Tonga) E'Ua Middle School (Tonga) Havelu Middle School (Tonga) Koulo Middle School (Tonga) Pakilau Middle School (Tonga) South America Schools established in Chile in the 1960s; at its largest, church schools had 3,000 students across eight elementary schools and one secondary school. The schools closed in the 1980s. Church-sponsored elementary schools opened in Lima in 1966. Over the next five years, elementary schools opened in La Paz, Bolivia and Asuncion, Paraguay. Chile Shortly after the first mission was organized in Chile in 1961, Dale Harding became the superintendent of two elementary schools in La Cisterna and Vina del Mar, which were opened in March 1964. Rather than use the traditional lecture-exam format, teachers varied their teaching methods to