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Madrid, Spain · Private
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Colegio CEU San Pablo Claudio Coello is a private Catholic school in Madrid that teaches only the last two years, the Baccalaureate, for students aged 16-18; it calls itself the only Baccalaureate school in Madrid designed from the start to prepare students for university. The school was founded by the Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU, set up in 1933 by the Catholic Association of Propagandists; the foundation has 25 educational institutions across Spain, including the CEU San Pablo University. The school says it has more than 50 years of experience in pre-university education. Its programme is called the Bachillerato de Desarrollo Universitario: two Spanish Baccalaureate pathways, science and technology and humanities and social sciences, laboratory practicals outside timetabled hours, pre-university extension courses, a mentoring programme and careers guidance with the CEU San Pablo University. The school announced that it is a candidate for the IB Diploma Programme in the social sciences pathway and invited students to start it in September. Lessons, pages for parents and the admission procedure are in Spanish. According to the school, all its students pass the university entrance examination, the average mark in the general part in 2020-2021 was 8,1, and more than 100 students sit the examination each year. The school has a medical room with a nurse, a guidance department, a chaplain and a pastoral department. The school does not publish its fees on the website, but describes discounts for large families and the foundation's scholarships.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish
Admissions Admission to the first Baccalaureate year goes in four stages: a request for information through the website, by email to ccsec@ceu.es or by telephone on 91: 561: 52: 40; an envelope of documents from the secretary's office, returned completed with the marks for the second and third years of ESO and any available marks for the fourth; an in-person interview with a tutor, at which both the parents and the student must be present; and a decision by email within 5 working days followed by enrolment. The school writes that most of its students come from schools where they studied since nursery and many are children or relatives of former students. The school says nothing specific on its website about foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades 1st - 2nd year of Baccalaureate (ages 16-18). The school runs only the Spanish Baccalaureate, two years, co-educational. There are two pathways: science and technology, and humanities and social sciences. The first year focuses on study technique, the second on preparation for the university entrance examination. The school has announced that it is a candidate for the IB Diploma Programme in the social sciences pathway. The school does not state class sizes; biology practical groups have up to 15 students.
Address Calle de Martín de los Heros, 60, 28008 Madrid
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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IBInternational Baccalaureate
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.
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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.
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Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results The school publishes: the average mark in the general part of the university entrance examination in 2020-2021 was 8,1; all its students pass this examination, and more than 100 sit it each year; 97 per cent completed the second Baccalaureate year in May 2020; 2 of the 25 special awards of the Community of Madrid in 2019-2020 and 1 of the 15 national Baccalaureate awards in 2015-2016. There are no more recent figures and no IB results on the website.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: The school occupies a city building on Martín de los Heros street in Madrid. Physics, chemistry and biology with geology laboratories: microscopes, binocular magnifiers, collections of minerals, rocks and fossils, a fume cupboard. A computer room with 37 workstations and a projector, a drawing room on the fifth floor of 80 square metres with 40 drawing boards, a technology room, an entrepreneurship room, a film library. A library with 9600 printed items and 590 items on digital media, open Monday to Thursday from 14:30 to 19:30, where students can work with teachers in the afternoon. A 150 square metre gym, with weekly competitions held at the university's sports facilities. An assembly hall, a dining room, a medical room and a chapel for 40 people.
Clubs and activities: Table tennis tournament · Mini-football league · Theatre subscription · Volunteering · Pastoral group and confirmation preparation · Drone flying day
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 does not state the number of teachers. It writes that most of its teachers have long experience, that new and young teachers are mentored by experienced colleagues in their departments, and that departments meet weekly. Each student has a tutor, and the guidance and psycho-pedagogical department works with students and parents. The head of the school is Mª Yolanda Lillo Díaz.
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 room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a medical room with a nurse: compulsory periodic medical check-ups for all students, first aid, monitoring of treatment, hygiene and vaccination campaigns and health talks. Against bullying there is the AVE-CEU plan with a guide for families and the foundation's annual Miradas atentas campaign, and there are materials for families on cyberbullying. The guidance department advises students and parents. The foundation publishes a criminal compliance policy and an ethics channel for reports. The school does not mention video surveillance, security guards or access control.
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