The new pope, Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), attended a technical secondary school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he earned a chemical technician diploma. This school was a state-run technical secondary school called Escuela Técnica Industrial No. 12. This diploma is considered beyond a typical high school diploma, somewhat akin to a community college certificate in the U.S. system
. Note that the "Pope Francis Preparatory School" mentioned in some search results is a Catholic high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, named after Pope Francis, but it is not the school he attended
