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Siero, Spain · est. 1966 · Private
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Colegio Internacional Meres was founded in 1966 and stands in the countryside at Meres, in the municipality of Siero, 20-30 minutes by car from Oviedo, Gijón and Avilés. The school calls itself the only private school in Asturias authorised by the IB and one of the first in Spain, and in 2022 it joined the international Cognita group - a group in itself confers no external recognition on a school. The IB continuum is complete: the Primary Years Programme in kindergarten from the age of three and in primary school, the Middle Years Programme from twelve to sixteen, and the Diploma Programme in the bachillerato, alongside the Spanish curriculum. The youngest, from one to three, are taken into the Pre-School. Teaching is bilingual from the first year of kindergarten: each class has two tutors, one for Spanish and one for English, all English teachers hold at least C1, and there are native speakers; French is taught with DELF certification, and by the time they leave pupils reach C1 in English and B2 in French. The school publishes its results: in the university entrance examinations an average of 11.65 and 56 per cent of pupils with 12 or above, in the IB Diploma Programme an 85 per cent pass rate against a world average of 82, an average score of 30 and a top score of 36. The campus is huge, with more than 150000 square metres of sports grounds and 9000 square metres of teaching space, its own kitchen and 24 bus lines across Asturias with teachers as escorts. In summer the campus hosts the Meres Summer School for children aged 2-14.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 954–12 322 a year
5 270–10 907 EUR
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · National programme
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Registration fee
≈ $904
800 EUR
Summer camp
Yes, open to all
About the fees Annual fees by stage, from the school's own page: the first cycle of kindergarten, ages 1-2 - 6500 euros full-time and 5270 euros part-time; the second cycle, ages 3-6 - 9110 euros; primary school, ages 6-12 - 9970 euros; secondary school, ages 12-16 - 10587 euros; the bachillerato and Diploma Programme, ages 16-18 - 10907 euros. Fees are paid in ten monthly instalments from September to June, and for the bachillerato in nine, from September to May. The fee includes school materials, the morning snack, lunch and afternoon snack and transport; lunch is compulsory, and if transport is not needed there is a discount. Not included are textbooks and digital licences, Cambridge, Trinity and DELF external examination fees, clubs, uniform, trips and excursions. Discounts from the third child in a family.
Admissions Admission takes six steps: a conversation with the admissions officer Daniela Viejo and a check whether there is a place in the right class, a visit to the school with a meeting with the teachers and the head, an official application, at which the place can be secured at once with the enrolment fee, an interview with the child and, depending on age, an assessment of the level in the subjects, then the offer of a place with the enrolment form, documents and the school report; if there are no places, the child goes on a waiting list. The school writes that it seeks motivated pupils with high academic potential. The one-off enrolment fee of 800 euros is non-refundable, with a discount from the third child in a family. The school can take children from the age of one and keeps them to the bachillerato. The school does not write about conditions for children from abroad.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-School from age 1 - 2nd year of the bachillerato, to age 18. The stages match the IB stages: Pre-School from one to three, kindergarten from three to six and primary school from six to twelve on the IB Primary Years Programme, secondary school from twelve to sixteen on the Middle Years Programme, and the bachillerato from sixteen to eighteen with the Diploma Programme. The Spanish and international programmes run at the same time. Lessons for everyone run from 9:00 to 17:00; in the first year of the bachillerato one afternoon a week, and in the second two, pupils leave after lunch at 14:30.
Address Camino del Colegio, 33199 Meres, Siero, Asturias
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · authorised programmeCognita · 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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16), 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. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible. 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.
Cognitaschool network
A group of schools launched in 2004; the legal entity in the footer of the site is Cognita Holdings Limited. The site names 90 schools in 21 countries, 14 curricula and more than 22,000 staff, and the numbers agree on all the pages read. The section on a school joining the group speaks of working with the owners of schools and of integrating the school, but does not say outright whether the school passes into ownership; the word "franchise" does not appear on the site. The majority owner of Cognita itself is named as Jacobs Holding AG.
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
Average IB score
30 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma Programme results: 85 per cent passed against a world average of 82, an average score of 30 and a top score of 36. In the EBAU university entrance examinations of 2026 all pupils sit the examinations, the average score was 11.65, 56 per cent scored 12 or above, and one pupil scored 14 - one of the highest marks in Asturias. Languages: every two years all pupils sit the Cambridge English and DELF French examinations, and by the time they leave they reach C1 and B2.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus: A campus in the countryside at Meres: more than 150000 square metres of sports grounds (the admission and summer school pages say more than 100000) and 9000 square metres of teaching space; children learn and play outdoors every day. There is the Ágora room for debates and presentations, an art and creativity room, three laboratories in the secondary school - physics and chemistry and two for biology and geology - and a separate laboratory for the younger grades. Food is cooked in the school's own kitchen; the summer school uses an outdoor pool. School transport consists of 24 bus lines across Asturias, including a separate route for the Pre-School.
Clubs and activities: Music school: piano, violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, guitar · Singing · Music and movement · Ballet · Contemporary dance · Basketball · Judo · Football · Handball · Volleyball · Foreign languages
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp and takes children from outside as well
The Meres Summer School runs on the school campus from 25 June to 31 July for children from 2 to 14, for one to five weeks as chosen, from 9:15 to 17:00 with lunch and an afternoon snack and an optional bus. The programme includes sport, the outdoor pool, art and technology workshops and excursions. Registration closes on 20 June; the school gives the prices in a brochure rather than on the page.
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 publishes no number of teachers and no pupil-teacher ratio. From the first year of kindergarten each class has two tutors, one for Spanish and one for English; all English teachers, the school says, hold at least a C1 certificate, and there are native-speaker teachers at every stage. Teachers train continuously in the IB programmes and, through the Cognita group, in the Team Fellowship and Senior Leader Enquiry programmes with the Institute of Education of University College London. The head of the school is Luis Carlos Jiménez, and extracurricular activities are led by Andrés Alonso.
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 policy
✓Staff training
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a nurse who looks after children in case of illness and minor injuries, a defibrillator and first aid courses for teachers and staff. The guidance department supports pupils and families, there is a psycho-pedagogical team, and the safeguarding team consists of child protection and wellbeing coordinators and mental health specialists and deals with child protection, online safety, bullying and mental health. The school publishes a safeguarding and child protection policy, an anti-bullying policy, a first aid policy, risk assessment and missing pupil supervision policies and others. On the buses children are escorted by the school's teachers. The Cognita group, the school says, requires rigorous staff selection and safeguarding training and checks its schools through independent auditors.
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Academics and programmes (16%)95 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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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