The Academia Hispano-Mexicana was initially established as a high school with the clear objective to effectively prepare the students for college. In 1944, the Academia was well established and expanded its educational facilities to primary education. Although the school received assistance from the agencies of the exiles, the management staff, faithful to their statement of principles, which proclaimed its own name, sought to strengthen the mechanisms of integration into Mexican society from the beginning. The center never had many students, and for a time it was considered by some Republicans as the school with the highest social prestige among the schools of the exile. It was the only one that has successfully expanded its educational scope to university studies. Unlike the others schools, that were moving to new locations in the south of the Mexican capital, the Academia moved to the north section of Mexico City.