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Argoncilhe, Portugal · Private
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One of the two sites of the private escolaglobal group, the one holding the older stages: the 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education and the secondary stage, from Grade 5 to Grade 12. It stands in Argoncilhe, at Rua da Azenha 315, in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira; the group's younger stages - nursery, pre-school and the first cycle - work at the other site, in the Avo Aninhas building on Rua Interior do Europarque in Santa Maria da Feira. It teaches the Portuguese national curriculum and the language of lessons is Portuguese: the pages for parents and pupils, the rules, the assessment criteria and the calendar are all kept in Portuguese. From September 2024 the group became a Cambridge International School and adds Cambridge International Education content to the Portuguese curriculum from the pre-school stage to Grade 8; English is taken as a subject, and there are separate English courses for teenagers. The school keeps its own projects - a dual programme, Erasmus+, MOVE, TeK - and feeds its pupils on site: it keeps a separate section on nutrition. The price list is set out in a separate file and no amounts are named on the readable pages.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · National programme
Languages of instruction
Portuguese
Stages and year groups Grades the 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education and the secondary stage, that is Grades 5-12. The school is one of the two sites of the escolaglobal group, and the older stages are placed here: the 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education and the secondary stage, that is from Grade 5 to Grade 12, which children enter at the age of ten. The group's younger stages - nursery, pre-school and the first cycle - work at the other site, in Santa Maria da Feira. From September 2024 the group became a Cambridge International School and adds Cambridge International Education content to the Portuguese curriculum from the pre-school stage to Grade 8.
Address Rua da Azenha 315, 4505-037 Argoncilhe
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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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. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
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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
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·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Teaching staff
Part of the school's site is closed to automatic reading: the inner pages and the price list are served from an address whose certificate does not match the name of the site.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
Part of the school's site is closed to automatic reading: the inner pages and the price list are served from an address whose certificate does not match the name of the site.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
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 data55 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 data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median70 "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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