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Buenos Aires, Argentina · Private
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Escuela Martín Buber is a Jewish bilingual school in Buenos Aires, with buildings on Armenia, Charcas and Virasoro streets. Its stages run from a group for ten-month-old babies in the kindergarten to the fifth year of secondary school: the primary stage holds official bilingual status and belongs to ESSARP, while the secondary stage awards a bilingual leaving certificate with profiles ranging from economic sciences and health sciences to social sciences, communication and computing. From the first class onwards part of the subjects are taught in English - Science, Social Studies, Geometry, Storytelling and Art - Hebrew is taught separately, and pupils sit the Cambridge examinations, including IGCSE. The kindergarten runs optional workshops, from swimming and football to taekwondo and rhythmic gymnastics; in the secondary school these are joined by elective workshops in journalism, art, carpentry and robotics, a Model United Nations, olympiads and English-language debating, as well as study trips and exchanges with Philadelphia, London and São Paulo. The school does not follow the rules of kashrut and allows pupils to bring their own food; it has a psychological service and a department of guidance and tutoring. The school does not publish its fees, names neither its number of pupils nor its year of foundati, and there is no list in text on its pages of the universities its leavers go on to.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
10 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees There are no tuition fees on the school's site: it has no section on fees at all, and the sum can be learnt only by requesting an interview.
Stages and year groups Grades Sala de 10 meses - 5º año de la Escuela Secundaria. In the kindergarten the groups run from ten months to five years, all with a full day available and flexible hours for the babies; from four and five years the day is bilingual. The primary school holds an official certificate as a bilingual stage (RESOL-2019-186-GCABA-SSPECT). The secondary school is a bilingual bachillerato (RESOL 348/18, 350/18, 394/18 and 140/19) with the profiles "Ciencias Económicas", "Ciencias de la Salud", "Ciencias Sociales", "Ciencias de la Comunicación" and "Informática"; seminars on Jewish identity are chosen by pupils in the fourth and fifth years.
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
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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 occupies three addresses in Buenos Aires: Armenia 2314/2362, Charcas 4145 and Virasoro 2333. The kindergarten works in a building designed around the needs of each stage of a child's development, with spacious, light and adaptable rooms; it also holds a vegetable garden and a psychologist's room. The building on Virasoro street, opened at the end of 2022, has a new science laboratory, a new library, a buffet, a place for teenagers to meet, and offices. The school has bought a plot on Güemes street and plans to extend the primary school by 2,500 square metres: an environmentally sound building with play yards, a dining room, an events hall, flexible classrooms indoors and out, maker spaces and vertical gardens. What the school lacks: it names neither the floor areas of its working buildings, nor the number of classrooms, nor any sports facilities; swimming is in the kindergarten programme, but where it takes place is not said.
Clubs and activities: English workshop · Sports training · Art technology · Swimming · Musical theatre · Football · Taekwondo · Yoga · Rhythmic gymnastics
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
By name the school publishes only its leadership and its specialists: general director Mg. Erica B. Herszkowich, stage heads Lic. Romina Maizelman (kindergarten), Prof. Alejandra Kuperman (primary school) and Dr. Enrique M. Herszkowich (secondary school), deputy head for the primary school Prof. Paula Laham, directors of the Jewish studies, English and physical education areas, nine coordinators, eight advisers and three psychologists. The founding director is named separately, with a memorial note: Jaia C. Rub. The school has advisers who train teachers every week in each discipline, and teaching assistants who help run groups of mixed compositi; every class has mentor teachers, who work as a team, study themselves and devise learning materials. Since 2000 the school has run a professional development centre for teachers, which holds seminars and courses for teachers across the country.
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
✓CounsellorThree psychologists are named: Lic. Judith Sapochnik, Lic. Eva Romarowski and Lic. Gabriela Scheyerf. The kindergarten has a "Gabinete psicológico integrado en la vida escolar". The secondary school has a department of guidance and tutoring ("Dpto. de orientación y tutoría"), which also organises the integration camp and the trips; tutoring is both group and individual.
✓Child protection policyThere is no child protection document and no information about staff training on the school's site.
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Reviews
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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 data65 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 median75 "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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