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Malaga, Spain · Private
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Centro Internacional María Montessori is a private Montessori school in Málaga, on Calle Godino. Its stages run right through and carry Montessori names: Comunidad Infantil from eighteen months to three, Casa de Niños from three to six, Taller from six to twelve and Comunidad de Adolescentes from twelve to sixteen. Its legal standing is a double one, and the school explains it itself: for ages 0-3 it is homologated by the Junta de Andalucía as a Spanish school, while from three to sixteen it stands as a foreign international educational centre, and that recognition rests on NEASC accreditation with periodic reviews. Bilingualism is arranged by age: in the youngest groups there are two guides and one speaks to the children only in English; in the Taller the English guide spends eight hours a week in the environment and covers in English the same material being taught in Spanish; the adolescents have a native speaker as one of their lead guides, five hours of English a week and several subjects taught wholly in English. The English staff have trained in the Jolly Phonics system, and the school notes that children from different countries often speak English among themselves as well. The day is long and differs by stage: a morning club from eight, lessons until 14:00 or 14:30, lunch until 15:30, and for the adolescents lessons until 16:30 from Monday to Thursday and until 14:30 on Friday. After lessons there are clubs from 15:30 to 16:30 and a play centre until 17:30. The school names education for peace and for life as its chief aim.
Key facts
Admits from
18 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions The school takes foreign pupils: from three to sixteen it is registered in Andalusia as a foreign international centre with NEASC accreditation, and it writes itself that children from different countries study there, so that many conversations between pupils naturally take place in English. The school can take children from eighteen months, into the Comunidad Infantil, and keeps them to sixteen. It handles enrolment itself through a password-protected page, and the open admission page has only a welcome, so it names no steps, deadlines, documents or language requirements openly; it has a separate email address for admissions, and the office answers by telephone from 8:00 to 16:00 Monday to Thursday and until 12:00 on Friday.
Stages and year groups Grades Comunidad Infantil from 18 months - Comunidad de Adolescentes, to age 16. Four stages with Montessori names: Comunidad Infantil for 18 months to 3 years, Casa de Niños for 3-6, Taller for 6-12 (in two groups, Taller I and Taller II) and Comunidad de Adolescentes for 12-16. Each has its own timetable: the youngest 9:00-14:00 with lunch or 9:00-15:30 with lunch and a nap; Casa de Niños lessons 9:00-14:00 with lunch until 15:30; Taller lessons 8:30-14:30 with lunch until 15:30; the adolescents 8:30-16:30 Monday to Thursday and 8:30-14:30 on Friday. A morning club runs from 8:00. The secondary stage ends at sixteen: the school has no bachillerato.
Address C/ Godino, 3, 29009 Málaga
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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NEASCNew England Association of Schools and Colleges
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The pedagogy of Maria Montessori: a child chooses the activity, works at their own pace with special materials, and mixed-age groups are arranged so that older children teach the younger ones. It is used most often in the nursery and primary stages.
What this means for this school. The name Montessori belongs to nobody: any school may call itself a Montessori school, and there is no single body that checks this. There are associations that train teachers and recognise schools, but membership of them is voluntary, and our entry means exactly that the school describes itself this way. This pedagogy has no leaving certificate, so what to look at is what the school finishes with.
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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: A building on Calle Godino in Málaga. The school has a library and separate prepared environments by stage - it posts photographs of them in separate galleries: general rooms, the environments, Taller I and Taller II. The dining room runs from 14:00 to 15:30 for Casa de Niños and the Taller, with the food brought in by the Casa Diocesana caterer; the adolescents eat at school two days a week and may bring their own food on the other two.
Clubs and activities: Music · Psychomotor skills and sport · Montessori-style games library · Movement and art · Environmental classes
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
The school publishes no number of teachers, but gives its staff by name, by stage and with their training. The lead guides mostly hold AMI diplomas - Children's House guide, Elementary guide, an AMI master's for ages 6-12 - and teaching or education degrees; each stage has an English specialist, many of them native speakers, with CELTA, TEFL/TESOL certificates and Jolly Phonics training; the English coordinator Jenny Salmon also teaches in the adolescent stage. Science for adolescents is taught by a biologist. The arrangement: in the youngest groups there are two adults, one of whom speaks to the children only in English; in the Elementary stage the English teacher spends eight hours a week in the group and teaches in English the same material that is covered in Spanish; for adolescents one of the main guides is a native English speaker, there are five hours of English a week and several subjects entirely in English. Many guides have worked at the school since 2016 or earlier.
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has an educational guidance team experienced in early identification of learning difficulties, which runs individual support programmes. The guides of the youngest groups have trained in conflict resolution under the Pikler-Lóczy approach, and for adolescents the school stresses emotional support and an inclusive group. The school names no written child protection policy, medical worker or security staff on its open pages; the form authorising who may collect a child is kept in a closed section for families.
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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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 Value for money (6%) scored at the median76 "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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