← Back to homeColegio Gaztelueta
Leioa, Spain · est. 1951 · Private
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Colegio Gaztelueta stands on a hill in Leioa outside Bilbao, and the site has a history: before the school there were farming and grazing, a medieval tower, a fort from the last Carlist war and a neo-Basque style villa, and the educational project began in 1951 - this academic year the school marks 75 years. The school is state-funded and trilingual, running its site in Spanish, Basque and English. On the International Baccalaureate it is precise: the Primary Years Programme is authorised, while the Middle Years Programme is under application, and the school warns separately that candidate status does not guarantee authorisation. The stages run from kindergarten through primary school and ESO to the baccalaureate, and within them the school keeps a separate "Global School" strand in its second building and a STEAM innovation strand with an international Cambridge project. Among its services it names the dining hall - the school speaks of balanced nutrition and educating healthy habits - and the school bus as "an extension of the school timetable". Separate strands are Christian identity, the school's podcast, its publications and the "Passion for teaching" programme.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions The school sets out admission in its admissions and inclusion policy: the family requests information and a guided visit, then there is a meeting with the parents or legal guardians to learn their expectations. For secondary and bachillerato the school looks at previous performance in the school record and at attitude, and depending on the year sets an entrance test or a personal interview. The school names no language requirements and no special procedure for children from abroad or from other education systems.
Stages and year groups Grades kindergarten - year 2 of baccalaureate. The school's menu divides teaching into Infantil, Primaria, ESO and Bachillerato, with a separate "Global School" strand alongside them. The IB Primary Years Programme covers the lower stages; for the middle stage the school has filed an application. The site names no age limits for the stages.
Address Barrio de Artaza, 87, 48940 Leioa (Bizkaia)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
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: PYP (ages 3-12). 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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
·Librarynot stated on the website
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✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school stands on a hill in Leioa, on the site of a former neo-Basque style villa; the second "Global School" building is at the same address with the number 87 BIS. Among its services it names a dining hall with balanced nutrition and a school bus, which the school calls an extension of the school timetable. The site gives no list of sports facilities or laboratories.
Clubs and activities (5): Global School · STEAM innovation · Cambridge international project · Christian formation · School podcast
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 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 data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 Value for money (6%) scored at the median74 "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.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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