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El Pinar, Uruguay · Private
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Kid's Place School is a private bilingual school in El Pinar on the Canelones coast, working as number 69 on the list of schools that have received state authorisation. Teaching runs in Spanish and English, the school gives English from the age of two and describes its aim with the words "APRENDER, CRECER y VIVIR". The school has pre-school groups from 2 to 5 years and primary classes from the first to the sixth, there is no secondary stage, and so the school has no leavers of its own and no examinations for them. Besides lessons the school names a vegetable garden, computing, an art studio, drama, music, handball, football and tennis, while swimming takes place in the neighbouring Luis Suárez complex; for the primary classes there are camps with overnight stays. Among its safety measures the school names Suat medical cover, closed-circuit television and its own app for parents. The school does not report its fees, the size of its contributions or its number of pupils, and its website is not opening at the moment.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school has no section about fees: it names neither a payment for the year nor a monthly sum. The only price it speaks of out loud concerns the February extra classes, and there it says only that it is counted separately for Spanish and for English, without any sums.
Admissions The school describes admission as a list of the documents a family brings on enrolment: the child's identity document and a copy of it, copies of both parents' identity documents, a valid vaccination certificate, the school pass ("Pase escolar: recepción Gurí o formato papel"), a copy of the most recent school report, a certificate of no outstanding debt if the child is coming from a private school, and a certificate of physical fitness. The school names neither examinations, nor an interview, nor any selection.
Stages and year groups Grades Nivel Inicial: Nivel 2, Nivel 3, Nivel 4, Nivel 5 (ages 2 to 5) and Primaria from Primero to Sexto año. There is no secondary stage.. The school keeps its lists of materials by ten groups - four pre-school and six primary - and no other stages appear in them. The school reports no plans to open a secondary stage.
Address Pérez Butler Parada 8 (Entrada Pinar Lado Norte), El Pinar, CP 15008, Canelones
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary · 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: Primary (ages 5-11). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school's website answers with a 403 error, and its inner pages break the connection.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: On the school grounds there are a vegetable garden, a computer room, an art studio and a library for adults; general meetings the school holds in its own polideportivo. The pool does not belong to the school: swimming from the age of 2 is optional and takes place in the Luis Suárez complex. The school gives no list or description of its own rooms in words: it shows them only in photographs in its gallery.
Clubs and activities (9): Handball · Football · Tennis · Music · Vegetable garden · Computing · Art studio · Theatre · Swimming
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
In its list of activities for the primary stage the school names "Campamentos y dormilonas" - camps and overnight stays. The school announces no separate summer camp on its own grounds; in February it opens extra classes in Spanish and English in three patterns - three times a week, twice a week or every day.
Teaching staff
The school's website answers with a 403 error, and its inner pages break the connection.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTVClosed-circuit television - "Circuito cerrado de televisión"
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical roomSuat medical cover - "Cobertura Suat".
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median90 "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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