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Munro, Argentina · est. 1973 · Private
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Colegio Los Molinos opened on 19 March 1973 in the Belgrano R district of Buenos Aires, and since March 1983 it has worked entirely in Munro, on a three-hectare site. It is a school for boys in the APDES network, with a primary and a secondary stage; it has no kindergarten of its own, as the network runs its pre-school stage separately. The school day runs from 8.10 to 15.45, teaching is bilingual, and English here is not a subject but the working language: "los alumnos no estudian inglés sino que trabajan en inglés". Older pupils sit the Cambridge ICE and AS Level certificates and the Cambridge English and Trinity College London exams. Besides its own grounds the school has a sports ground in Pilar with rugby and football pitches, changing rooms and parking; it has no school transport of its own, and parents arrange it with carriers themselves. The school does not state its fees or its number of pupils.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · A-Level
Admits from
6 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school does not state its fees on its website: it has no section on fees, and the admission page offers only to book an interview.
Stages and year groups Grades 1º grado de Primaria - 6º año de Secundaria. The school describes two stages: "El nivel primario abarca el período evolutivo que va desde los 6 a los 12 años" and "El nivel secundario argentino abarca el período evolutivo comprendido entre los 12 y los 18 años aproximadamente". The uniform page confirms the same two stages and only those: "UNIFORME - PRIMARIA & SECUNDARIA". The top year of the secondary school shows in the school's own notes about leaving: the entry "5 ES vs 6ES" and "Misión 6º año". The school has no pre-school stage: within the network a separate Jardín Buen Molino covers it.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · A-Level · authorised programmeAPDES · school is part of the networkschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: A-Level (ages 16-18). A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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An Argentine non-profit association founded in 1970. Its own website calls it an "asociación sin fines de lucro" with a "Consejo de Dirección General", an executive body of five central directors, including a director of education and a director of economy and finance. The website gives no expansion of the abbreviation. It holds 21 educational institutions in seven cities of Argentina: Buenos Aires, Pilar, Córdoba, Mendoza, Rosario, Tucumán and La Plata. The arrangement in each city is the same: a school for girls, a school for boys and a kindergarten, that is, teaching is single-sex. The websites of all the schools are subdomains of apdes.edu.ar, and the website uses no words about associated or joined schools: the schools say of themselves "somos parte de Apdes". The association is Catholic and names the source directly: "Nuestros colegios son impulsados por las enseñanzas de San Josemaría, fundador del Opus Dei". The list of schools by city is open in the "Nosotros" section. The network declares no accreditation of its schools of its own.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transportThe school has no transport of its own: "El colegio no cuenta con transporte oficial. Es opción de los padres la contratación de estas empresas que brindan el servicio"
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: Its own three-hectare site in Munro: "se adquirieron dos manzanas linderas más, y se completaron así las actuales tres hectáreas"
Clubs and activities: Rugby · Football · Athletics · Handball · Basketball · Volleyball · Choir · Wind orchestra · Altar servers' school
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓CounsellorThe Equipo de Orientación Escolar is named in full: "Malena Aldave. Psicopedagoga. / Magdalena Molina. Psicopedagoga. / María Alvarado. Profesora de Educación Especial y Counselor."; the management board has a separate post of Director de Orientación - Juan Gulland.
✓Child protection policyIn the footer of every page the school gives two links: "Acceso al Código de Ética" and "Acceso al Protocolo para la protección integral de los derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes" (the documents are hosted on Google Drive)
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median72 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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