← Back to homeColegio Internacional Eiris
A Coruna, Spain · est. 1992 · Private
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Colegio Internacional Eiris has been running in A Coruna since 1992 - its own home page says as much: "Raising Global Citizens since 1992". The school belongs to the Institucion Internacional SEK, the same institution that runs the SEK-IES chain of schools and universities, and a network in itself gives a school no external recognition. Of the International Baccalaureate programmes the school names the Diploma and places it beside the Spanish national bachillerato as a second route out: both, it says, offer a rigorous and personalised education tailored to the pupil's interests and goals. The stages begin at three: the kindergarten is built on an English-speaking environment with native-speaking teachers, where the language is acquired through play and experience rather than lessons. The school lists family services on a page of their own: school transport across A Coruna, its outskirts and surrounding towns, a playroom, a dining room, a doctor, a guidance department, a CEMU centre, summer camps and extracurricular activities for pupils from the age of three up to the bachillerato, from 12:00 to 17:00. The institution also promises a "schooling guarantee" - a system allowing a pupil to continue at its other schools.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions Admission, the school says, runs as follows: an application for a place, a one-to-one interview with the family to explain the school's approach, a tour of the building, an admissions test of the child's knowledge and skills and a review of documents, after which enrolment is completed. Pupils can start in the first year of kindergarten, at age 3, and at any stage up to the bachillerato. The school calls its places limited and advises securing a place for the next year early; it publishes no deadlines, no list of documents and no language requirements.
Stages and year groups Grades kindergarten from age 3 - the bachillerato. The stages are: Early Childhood Education from three, Primary Education, Secondary Education, the national bachillerato and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Extracurricular activities are intended for pupils from three years old up to the bachillerato and run from 12:00 to 17:00.
Address Calle Castano de Eiris, 1, 15009 A Coruna
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeSEK · school is part of the networkschool 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: 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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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.
SEKschool network
A Spanish organisation, founded in 1892; the site calls it Institución Internacional SEK, and signs the network of schools and universities "SEK-IES", International Education Systems. The numbers diverge: the home page names 26 schools, 2 universities, 17 countries and more than 25,000 pupils, while the "Red educativa internacional" page lists the same 26 schools - 14 "Colegios SEK" and 12 "Colegios IES" - and three universities. The Portuguese school stands among the "Colegios IES"; the history page puts its purchase in 2022. Whether the organisation owns the schools or manages them is not said. Not to be confused with SEK Education Group: that one has its own site, sek.es, and Portugal is not in its list of countries.
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.
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
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: School transport covers A Coruna, its outskirts and the surrounding towns. There is a dining room, a playroom and a CEMU centre. The school gives no list of teaching or sports facilities.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school names a doctor as a separate service in its list of family offerings, alongside a guidance department.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 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 data55 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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