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San Isidro, Argentina · Private
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Southern Cross is a private school in San Isidro, outside Buenos Aires: co-educational, bilingual and secular. The school describes itself this way: "un colegio mixto, bilingüe y laico, cuyo objetivo principal es el desarrollo de valores éticos y humanos". The academic chain runs from the Blooming kindergarten at a separate address through the primary school to the secundaria; English and Spanish carry equal weight from the first years. In the senior years the school prepares pupils for the Cambridge examinations: in the fourth and fifth year they sit seven compulsory subjects for the I.C.E. diploma, and in the sixth they take advanced-level subjects for the AICE. The school has its own sports ground, separate from the teaching buildings; the boys specialise in rugby and football, the girls in hockey, and athletics is for everyone. The secundaria runs optional projects in music, drawing, mathematics, literature, chess, debating, drama and choir, and there are educational and sporting trips away. The school names neither its number of pupils, nor its founding year, nor its teaching staff, nor a list of the universities its leavers go to. Fees are posted as a separate "Aranceles" file in the section with rules and forms rather than as a table. The school's own website is currently unavailable: at its secure address the certificate produces an error.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees No fee amounts appear on the pages of the site: the school posts them as a separate "Aranceles" file in the "Reglamentos, formularios y más" secti, next to the "Contrato Educativo".
Admissions Admission begins with an introducti: "Te invitamos a que te sumes a la comunidad del Southern Cross y conozcas nuestro colegio. Completá el formulario y muy pronto nos pondremos en contacto. También podés solicitar una entrevista llamando al 4737-1016". The admission form lets families choose one of three stages - Jardín de Infantes Blooming, Escuela Primaria, Escuela Secundaria; alongside it the school posts a "10 preguntas para ayudarte a decidir" guide.
Stages and year groups Grades Jardín de Infantes Blooming - 6° año de secundaria. The school runs three stages - the Blooming kindergarten, the primary school and the secundaria. The upper boundary is visible from the Cambridge examinations: "En cuarto y quinto año se rinden siete materias obligatorias obteniéndose el diploma I.C.E.... En sexto año se dan materias del nivel avanzado de los exámenes" - that is, the secundaria runs to a sixth year.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · 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), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school's website does not open: at the secure address the certificate produces an error, and at the plain address the server does not respond at all.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
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
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school occupies three sites and names each of them in the "El Edificio" section and in its contact details: the Southern Cross teaching building, the Blooming kindergarten on Frias street and its own sports ground, the Campo de Deportes. 3 sites.
Clubs and activities: Music · Art · Mathematics · Literature · Chess · Debating club · Drama club · Choir
Teaching staff
The school's website does not open: at the secure address the certificate produces an error, and at the plain address the server does not respond at all.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
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
✓CounsellorDepartamento de orientación together with the tutors.
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The secundaria has a support service: "El departamento de orientación, en colaboración con los tutores, realiza el seguimiento de los alumnos con alguna dificultad uniendo los esfuerzos realizados por la familia, profesores y profesionales involucrados". Alongside it come "Tutorías, Convivencias y talleres especiales relacionados con la Salud, Comunicación y Orientación Vocacional".
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%)85 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 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.
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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