Brewster Madrid - La Moraleja Campus
Alcobendas, Spain · est. 2025 · PrivateBrewster Madrid - La Moraleja Campus is the second Madrid campus of the American school Brewster Madrid, opened in September 2025 in La Moraleja, within Alcobendas. The parent school is Brewster Academy of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, running since 1820; the school opened its first Madrid campus in Chamberí in 2023. La Moraleja takes K1 to grade 11, a year shorter than Chamberí, and has no grade 12 yet. Lessons are in English, and the school teaches Spanish separately. It describes its community in figures covering both campuses: more than 400 pupils from 45 countries, an average class of 15-18. The main thing a parent needs to know about this campus: the IB Diploma is not awarded here yet. It is authorised at Chamberí, while La Moraleja calls itself a candidate school for the Diploma and promises to open it "starting next year" - so a pupil now enrolled finishes the senior stage either at Chamberí or under the new programme, if authorisation arrives. The school's main certificate is the American high school diploma, with AP courses, and a separate university counselling service works through both routes with the family. Changing campus is not required, but a transfer can be requested during re-enrolment, with priority for families already at the school. Afternoon programmes run Monday to Thursday from 16:15 to 17:00 (half an hour later in the first trimester) and are led by outside providers. The school has a full-time wellbeing counsellor.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
NEASC · accreditationIB · DP · authorised programmeCollege Board · authorised programmeWhat stands behind each entry
An American accreditation working since 1885. For international schools it uses an approach where the visitors look first at live lessons rather than at folders of paperwork: the team works in the school for about a week. It is the only one here whose public directory honestly separates accredited schools from candidates.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Authorisation here runs a year at a time: the register lists the school for the 2025-2026 school year.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.