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Lincoln, Argentina · est. 1991 · Private
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Escuela del Alba is a private school in Lincoln, opened by four women teachers on 11 March 1991 and running a full day from the very start, with lessons in sport, art and English. It takes no state subsidy and is non-denominational, and over time it became bilingual at every stage. From 2017 the school moved to Montessori pedagogy and in 2024 it completed the rebuilding of its secondary stage; since March 2024 it has belonged to the Red Argentina de Colegios Montessori as one of its founders. Children arrive in "Nido" at six months and go through "Comunidad Infantil", "Casa de Niños", two "Taller" environments and two adolescent communities to graduati, and the senior community prepares them for higher educati. Besides lessons the school names Chinese, a school Model United Nations, literary evenings, service learning, life in nature, camping trips and language immersion camps, and it works as a Cambridge examination centre for language examinations and IGCSE. The school does not publish its fees, its admission requirements, its teaching staff or its pupil numbers on its site.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
6 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees There are no tuition fees on the site: the school has three pages - about itself, about Montessori pedagogy and about its environments - and not one of them carries fees, charges or a form for requesting a price. The only ways of asking that the school offers are the telephone, the administration's e-mail address and a ch.
Stages and year groups Grades Nido (from 6 months) - Comunidad de Adolescentes II. The school names its stages by age rather than by year numbers: "Nido" - "Un espacio diseñado para niños desde los 6 meses hasta aproximadamente el año y medio", "Comunidad Infantil" - "hasta aproximadamente los 3 años", "Casa de Niños" - "Recibe a niños de 3, 4 y 5 años en ambientes multiedad", then "Taller I", "Taller II", "Comunidad de Adolescentes I" and "Comunidad de Adolescentes II". The Spanish and English texts of the same page disagree about the boundaries of the older stages, and both sets of figures stand as they are: "Taller I" - "niños de 6 a 9 años" against "Elementary Environment I: Children aged 6 to 8 years old"; "Taller II" - "Cuando los niños de 9 años se encuentran preparados" against "Elementary Environment II: Children aged 9 to 11 years old"; "Comunidad de Adolescentes I" - "Pensada para jóvenes de 12 a 15 años" against "Adolescent Community I: Ages 12 to 14 years old"; "Comunidad de Adolescentes II" - "Pensada para jóvenes de 15 a 18 años" against "Adolescent Community II: Ages 15 to 17 years old". The secondary stage runs to graduati: its rebuilding along Montessori lines, the school writes, was completed in 2024.
Address Buchardo 1161, Lincoln, Buenos Aires
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: The school describes prepared Montessori environments - "Nido", "Comunidad Infantil", "Casa de Niños" and "Taller" - with materials "para el desarrollo psicosensomotor", daily "Educación Física Integral (EFI)" and "Vida en la Naturaleza" sessions and separate "espacios exclusivos de inglés". It gives no list of rooms - library, laboratories, sports grounds, dining hall - and does not state the size of its site.
Clubs and activities: Chinese · MINU (school Model United Nations) · Literary evenings · Service learning · Outdoor living · Hiking · Sport · Art
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The school names "Colonias de Inmersión al Idioma" (language immersion camps) and, separately, "Campamentos" among its projects. It gives neither dates, nor ages, nor a price, nor a place, and whether the camp is its own or run elsewhere cannot be told from its words.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
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 data55 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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