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Ciudad de la Costa, Uruguay · est. 2022 · Private
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North Schools is a secular bilingual school in Solymar Norte outside Ciudad de la Costa, which opened its doors in 2022 and belongs to the Argentine-Uruguayan Itínere network. Today the school takes children from the age of one to the sixth year of the primary stage, and it promises to open a secondary stage in 2027. From the age of five the day is necessarily a double one: four hours on the national programme in Spanish and four hours of the Cambridge Primary Programme in English. Besides lessons there are music, art, dance, a vegetable garden, cookery, drama entirely in English and robotics, while PE changes with the seasons between Football, Rugby, Basketball, Handball and Athletics; from 2026 all pupils become members of the Club Náutico, and an indoor multi-purpose sports hall is appearing on the campus grounds. The school names no separate child protection policy, but a school guidance department of a psychologist, a psychopedagogue and a psychomotor specialist works at the campus, and four people are named in it by name. The school does not publish its price and gives it at a meeting with the family; it does not name the number of pupils or the composition of its teaching staff by name either.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary · National programme
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school has no section on fees. It gives the price only at a meeting with the family, and that is what it writes on its site as well: prices for the schools in the departments of Maldonado and Canelones are given at an interview at the school itself. On the campus page the same point is made in more detail: the price depends on the stage and on additional services, and for details of the enrolment fee and the monthly instalments they suggest asking over WhatsApp or through the form.
Admissions Admission goes through a single network form in which the campus is chosen in a field of its own: the school asks for the parent's contact details, the district of residence, the campus, the year of entry, the level wanted and the child's previous school, and allows up to five candidates in one application. The list of levels in the form runs from KINDER 1 to PRIMARY 6, and after that come MIDDLE SCHOOL 1-3 and SENIOR 1-3. The school writes: "Agradecemos su interés en ser parte de nuestra comunidad. A continuación encontrarán el formulario para conocer más nuestra propuesta y conocer el proceso de ingresos". The conversation then continues over the WhatsApp of the campus in Canelones.
Stages and year groups Grades Kinder 1 - Primary 6 (nursery from the age of one and the full primary stage). Today the school goes up to the sixth year of the primary stage. The school plans to open a secondary stage in 2027 and describes it as a Middle & Senior School with a bilingual route and international certifications from the University of Cambridge; the Middle School and Senior levels already stand in the admission form. The primary day runs from 8:00 to 16:00, of which one shift (4 hours) follows the national programmes in Spanish and the second (4 hours) the Cambridge Primary Programme in English. In Kinder for ages 1-4 there is a simple day from 8:00 to 12:00, and when a minimum group is filled sections open from 12:10 to 16:10; there is also a double day from 8:00 to 16:00; from Kinder age 5 the double day is compulsory.
Address Martínez Trueba esquina Jude, Solymar Norte, Departamento 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 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 hallFrom 2026 an indoor multi-purpose sports hall is appearing on the campus grounds.
·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
Also on site: Makerspace
Campus: The campus is in Solymar Norte. The school writes that its spaces are conceived to inspire and to support creativity and wellbeing, joining indoor and natural environments as "the third teacher", and it plans the outdoor spaces as teaching stages. The school gives no separate list of premises in text: the campus rooms themselves are shown only in photographs. A psychomotor hall on the first level, where the sessions with the psychomotor specialist take place. A vegetable garden, which has a specialist teacher of its own. Kitchen: a cookery workshop stands in the Kinder timetable. Yacht club: from 2026 all pupils become members of the Club Náutico with access to all its bases except Punta Gorda and to a joint sports project.
Clubs and activities (16): Music · Art · Dance · Vegetable garden · Cookery · Psychomotor skills · Drama in English · Robotics · Football · Rugby · Basketball · Handball · Athletics · Rowing · Surfing · Tennis
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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
✓CounsellorA Departamento de Orientación Escolar works at the campus, and four people are named in it by name: María Belén Flores Valli, Ana Escutary, Silvana Taglaferro, María Paz Calabuig. The network describes the makeup of the department like this: "Nuestro departamento de orientación escolar, conformado por una psicopedagoga, psicóloga y psicomotricista, diseña un plan de trabajo curricular orientado a reconocer, identificar y manejar el impacto de las emociones en el aprendizaje". Emotional learning is written into the curriculum: a lesson starts with work on feelings following the "visible thinking" method.
·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 data60 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 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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