inside geneva, calvin mainly wanted to make a "collège", a school for children. a place to build the school was picked on march 25, 1558. it was opened the next year on june 5, 1559. it was divided into two parts. one part was a grammar school. the grammar school was called the "collège" or "schola privata". the other part was an advanced school called the "académie" or "schola publica". in five years there were 1,200 students in the grammar school and 300 in the advanced school. the "collège" later became the collège calvin, one of the college preparatory schools of geneva. the "académie" became the university of geneva.