On August 17, 2026, the Toluca City Council broke ground on the Margarita Maza National Baccalaureate School in Real de San Pablo, San Pablo Autopan delegation, the first campus of this educational model in the country. The project will benefit more than 300 young people from the northern zone of the municipality, according to the municipal government.
The groundbreaking took place hours after President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced the creation of the new upper-secondary education system. According to the Toluca City Council, the model includes 274 campuses across the country, 52 of them in the State of Mexico and two in Toluca, where the municipality donated the land. The development matters for the northern zone of the municipality because it brings educational options closer to communities that currently have to travel elsewhere to continue their studies, and it positions Toluca as the first test case for the national rollout of the model.
Mayor Ricardo Moreno led the groundbreaking ceremony, accompanied by the Secretary of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of the State of Mexico, Miguel Ángel Hernández Espejel, local legislators, education authorities, and community representatives. Hernández Espejel explained that, while construction is completed, students will be able to begin their studies at alternate campuses, ensuring that the building work does not delay access to upper-secondary education. The new campus is part of a cross-cutting policy focused on addressing root causes, with education at its center, according to SDPNoticias. The second campus of the model in Toluca will be built in the community of El Cerrillo Vista Hermosa, thanks to the land donated by the City Council.
Toluca thus becomes the first reference case for the national rollout of the Bachillerato Nacional, and the alternate-campus scheme will ensure that enrollment does not wait for construction to finish. The opening of the second location, in El Cerrillo Vista Hermosa, will be the next milestone for the model in the municipality.
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