Alicante, Spain · PrivateColegio CEU Jesús María Alicante is a private school of the Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU; in the footer of its site it lists the other schools of the same network - in Madrid, Murcia, Valencia, Barcelona, Vitoria and Seville. It has two IB programmes and they stand at either end of the school path: the primary (PEP) and the diploma, while there is no middle years programme - so between primary school and the diploma a child follows the national curriculum. On top of that the school runs its own Bachillerato CEU and keeps a languages institute with its own timetable for the academic year. Part of its stages are concertada, that is state-funded, and admission to them follows the official procedure. The school does not name the language of lessons directly: it calls its primary stage plurilingual (plurilingüe) without spelling out which subjects are taught in which language, while the pages on the stages, admission and school rules are written in Spanish, and the school names Spanish, mathematics and English as its pillars; hence Spanish as the language of instruction. The CEU foundation is a university one: it also stands behind the San Pablo CEU universities, and the schools of this network work under its name.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, DP · authorised programmeColegios CEU · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
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: PYP (ages 3-12), DP (ages 16-19). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. 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 →Colegios CEU is the school network of the Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU, a non-profit foundation set up in 1933 by the Asociación Católica de Propagandistas (ACdP). According to the foundation, it runs 25 educational centres - from early years to postgraduate study and vocational training - in twelve Spanish cities. The CEU schools page lists ten schools: three in Madrid (Claudio Coello, Montepríncipe and Sanchinarro), one each in Murcia (Molina de Segura), Alicante, Vitoria, Valencia and Seville, and two in Barcelona under the Abat Oliba name (Loreto and Spínola). Some of the schools are private and some are state-funded under agreement (concertado). The network's site is ceu.es.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.