← Back to homeMar del Plata Day School
Mar del Plata, Argentina · est. 1957 · Private
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A bilingual school in Mar del Plata, opened on 12 March 1957: the founders, Jose Antonio Chancaglini and Graciela Torre Nilsson de Chancaglini, began with thirty-five pupils and three teachers in a converted family house. The building was enlarged in 1962, 1970 and 1976, and the kindergarten opened in a building of its own in 1992; today the school occupies three addresses - kindergarten, primary and secondary. Children are taken from eighteen months, and from that same age there is a choice between the simple day and the day extended to 15:00, while in the three- and four-year-old rooms the extended day is compulsory. English is taught through a continuous bilingual programme approved by the ministry of educati, and from the fifth year of primary school to the sixth year of secondary the pupils are prepared for the Cambridge language examinations from A2 to C2; the secondary school leads to the bilingual Bachiller diploma. Sport covers hockey, rugby, softball, football, handball and basketball, with inter-school tournaments and a sports day between the three houses, red, green and blue; music runs as six instrumental laboratories - voice, guitar, percussi, viol, keyboard, and music with technology. Camps away are held at Laguna La Brava, in Tandil and in Bariloche. The school does not name its tuition fees, its charges or its number of pupils on the site.
Key facts
Admits from
18 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school does not publish its tuition fees: there is no section on fees on the site, and the "Preguntas frecuentes" page at /uniforme stands unfilled - in place of answers it carries the filler "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet".
Admissions Admission is set out step by step: "Primer contacto - Completar el formulario para iniciar el proceso. Entrevista y recorrido presencial - Encuentro para conocernos, presentar el proyecto educativo y recorrer los espacios de la Instituci. Instancia con el aspirante - Evaluacion acorde a la edad, orientada a conocer al nino". The school states at once that an application does not hold a place: "Completar la etapa de admision no conlleva la reserva automatica de la vacante. Las incorporaciones se definen en base a disponibilidad y tras un analisis detallado que busca el equilibrio humano y academico de cada grupo".
Stages and year groups Grades Sala maternal (from 18 months) - 6o ano del Secundario. The lower stage: "Sala Maternal - A partir de los 18 meses, se ofrece a los alumnos la posibilidad de realizar jornada simple o jornada extendida hasta las 15:00h", then "Salas de 3 y 4 anos - Los alumnos permanecen en la jornada extendida en forma obligatoria hasta las 15:00h", and the school itself writes "desde la sala maternal hasta la sala de 5". The secondary school runs six years: "A lo largo de los seis anos, el estudiante de Middle & Senior puede vivenciar un sinfin de experiencias y oportunidades que le permitiran obtener el Diploma de Bachiller Bilingue". English runs "A partir de 5o ano de la Educacion Primaria y hasta el 6o ano del Nivel Secundario".
Address Nivel Inicial: Falucho 2828; Nivel Primario: Falucho 2768; Nivel Secundario: Quintana 1949, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeCambridge counts the school as one of its centres, yet the school names no Cambridge stage at all on its site - only language examinations: the preparation and the bilingual programme allow pupils to obtain Cambridge English Qualifications certificates. Neither IGCSE, nor AS/A Level, nor the Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary stages are mentioned on any of the site's nineteen pages.
school 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. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
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
✓Laboratories"Muestra de Ciencia y Tecnologia - Laboratorio de Ciencias" and "Maker Lab: espacio tecnologico", and also a vegetable garden under the "Cultivando-nos" project
·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
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school is spread across three buildings in the centre of Mar del Plata, with its own sports field outside them. It does not name floor areas, the number of classrooms or any other premises. Three addresses for three stages - Falucho 2828 (kindergarten), Falucho 2768 (primary), Quintana 1949 (secondary). The kindergarten has a building of its own, built for the purpose: "El Jardin de Infantes inicia sus actividades a partir de 1992... Un edificio propio construido especialmente". Six instrumental laboratories - "El proyecto consta de seis laboratorios instrumentales: canto, guitarra, percusi, viol, teclado y musica y tecnologia". What the school does not have: the site mentions neither a library, nor a swimming pool, nor a medical room.
Clubs and activities: Ice hockey · Rugby · Softball · Football · Handball · Basketball · Singing · Guitar · Percussion · Violin · Keyboards · Music and technology · Theatre and dance · Robotics and programming · Vegetable garden · Maker lab · Mindfulness
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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Academics and programmes (16%)60 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 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.
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