In 1937 the high school students formed a football team that in 1946 became the current Millonarios Football Club, the squad with the most professional football titles in the country.
On 10 January 10 1951, Laureano Gomez, president and graduate of St. Bartholomew secondary school, returned the national school to the Jesuits with a five-year contract,[REF] by which they undertook to educate free 900 day pupils and 200 workers in night school.