Once the construction of the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción and its surroundings had been completed, in 1958 a school group began to be built to cover the educational needs of the children of the neighbourhood, using the courtyard of the former Municipal Slaughterhouse as a site. The school for boys, called “Colegio Juan Ramón Jiménez” and the one for girls, “Colegio Pío XII”, would be the precedent of the Colegio Nacional de Campoamor, inaugurated in October 1959, with Dª Josefina Alcayna Alarcón as its first headmistress.
Next to the school there was a large garden which was inaugurated on 17th July 1961, called Jardín del Caudillo (Caudillo’s Garden). It also occupied part of the site of the old abattoir, from the school playground to Calle Mayor, formerly Avenida Calvo Sotelo.
In 1993, the demolition and transfer of the educational centre to its current location made possible the creation of a landscaped walkway that joined the new church with the Calle Mayor, in accordance with the plans of the first parish priest of the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Pedro Pérez García, fulfilling a wish that he would never see come true. As a tribute, his name appears on the commemorative plaque that was installed in the Plaza de la Inmaculada in 1994.
From the Calle Mayor, the towers of the church continue to be the backdrop and sign of identity of the entire Campoamor neighbourhood.
