← Back to homeColegio Bilingüe Saint Paul
San Juan, Argentina · est. 1996 · Private
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A bilingual school in San Juan that grew out of English language courses: "Colegio Bilingüe SAINT PAUL abrió sus puertas en 1996, sobre las bases de SAINT PAUL School of English". It runs on two sites: the early years and the primary school in Santa Lucía, the secondary school on Avenida Córdoba in the city centre. Since 2018 the early years and primary stages have followed Montessori: eight "Casa de los Niños" groups, each with two adults, a Guía teacher and an English teacher, both Montessori-trained, and the materials laid out across four areas - practical life, sensorial, mathematics and language. Primary has fifteen hours of English a week, and in the second cycle the children are grouped not by age but by language level; the Cambridge examinations are compulsory and are sat at the school itself, and in the secondary school IGCSE in seven subjects is added to them. Outside lessons the school runs workshops - violin and viola, theatre and musical comedy, visual arts, choir, film and graphic design, robotics, chess - and its own schools of sport and chess. Learning difficulties are followed by an interdisciplinary team of an educational psychologist and a psychologist. The school does not publish its tuition fees, its charges, its pupil numbers or a list of the universities its leavers go to; admission begins with a place enquiry form.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school names no price, either by the year or by the month: there is no section on its pages about fees, charges or discounts, and admission begins with a place enquiry form and a conversation with the school.
Admissions Admission begins with a place enquiry: the school asks for a form with the child's name, the chosen stage and an adult's contact details, and promises to be in touch itself - "Completá el formulario y nos pondremos en contacto a la brevedad para acompañarte en el proceso de admisión". The form offers three stages: Educación Inicial Montessori Bilingüe, Educación Primaria Montessori Bilingüe, Educación Secundaria Bilingüe. The school lists no requirements, no deadlines and no entrance tests.
Stages and year groups Grades Sala de 3 - 6.º Año del Nivel Secundario. The early years stage is "Salas de 3, 4 y 5 años", an extended day in two shifts, from 8 to 12 or from 13:30 to 17:30, and Montessori since 2018: "En SAINT PAUL trabajamos con la pedagogía Montessori desde 2018". Primary runs "desde los 6 años", an extended day from 8 to 15:30, in two cycles: 6-8 years and 9-11 years. Secondary is "Ciclo Básico (tres años) y Ciclo Orientado (tres años)", the day from 7:20 to 16:00, and from the fourth year there is a choice of two orientations: "Economía y Gestión de las Organizaciones, y Ciencias Naturales", with the programmes of study set out year by year up to the sixth. The school states no plans for expansi.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeschool 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: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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 transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Two sites: "Av. Córdoba 266 oeste - Capital - San Juan" and "Pellegrini 3700 este - Santa Lucía - San Juan". The early years stage has eight Montessori groups, "8 Ambientes de Casa de los Niños (4 en el Turno Mañana y 4 en el Turno Tarde)", and the setting is described as "un ambiente preparado: ordenado, estético, simple, real" with materials arranged by area - "Vida Práctica, Sensorial, Matemática y Lenguaje". The school gallery shows "Patio y galería", "Nuestra sede", "Nivel Inicial" and "Aula Montessori". A library, a laboratory, a sports hall, a swimming pool, pitches and a dining hall are not named separately: the rooms are shown in photographs only.
Clubs and activities: Violin and viola · Theatre and musical comedy · Art · Choir · Film and graphic design · Plastic arts · Robotics · Chess · Expressive movement · Cuentos Bordados · Sports school · Chess school · Reading project · Editorial
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The school's camp is an away language camp rather than a summer camp on its own grounds: a language immersion camp is arranged for the fifth year, where the children talk with native speakers, try dishes from English-speaking countries and work on their language. The school closes the primary stage with a four-week trip to England. It gives no dates, no price, and does not say whether either trip is compulsory.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school has eight Montessori Children's House groups: four in the morning shift and four in the afternoon one. Each group has two adults, both Montessori-trained: a teacher whom the school calls a guide, and an English teacher as the assistant. In the first cycle lessons are held in small groups formed by age; in the second cycle the pupils are grouped by their level of English. Among its distinctive features the school names a strong team of teachers.
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
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Academics and programmes (16%)72 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 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.
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