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Pamplona, Spain · Private
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Colegio Irabia-Izaga is a school in Pamplona under an agreement with the Government of Navarre (centro concertado), and its name is a fused pair, Irabia and Izaga, at one address. The school describes its span in the words "de 0 a 18 años": nursery groups for crawling babies and for one- and two-year-olds, then Infantil, Primaria, Secundaria and the bachillerato. It is a large school, and it gives the figures itself: 1930 pupils, 220 teachers and assistants, 1070 families, 6150 former pupils, four dining rooms serving 1100 meals a day and 24000 square metres of sports grounds. The International Baccalaureate is set up broadly: the school calls itself the only one in Navarre authorised for the Middle Years Programme, and every pupil at the middle stage takes it; the Diploma Programme is offered in two modalities, bio-health and science-technology, to those who want it at the upper stage. Its bilingual status is recognised by the Government of Navarre: the PAI programme in Infantil and Primaria and a bilingual section in Secundaria; half of all lessons are in English from the first year of Infantil, taught by 16 teachers and native-speaker assistants, and French is added as a second foreign language from the fourth year of Primaria. The upbringing is Christian, following the teaching of Saint Josemaría Escrivá; the school's religious life is led by priests of Opus Dei. In the El Mundo ranking the school has been among the hundred best private and concertada schools in Spain for 27 years running.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · MYP, DP · National programme
Admits from
a few months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Students
1930 pupils, 1070 families.
Admissions The school does not set out an admission procedure on its site: admission of pupils, it says, is handled by the school office, and it refers families there for deadlines, documents and fees. It takes children from the earliest nursery groups - crawling babies, one- and two-year-olds - right up to the bachillerato. The school says nothing about children from abroad, citizenship, homologation of documents or language requirements.
Stages and year groups Grades nursery from age 0 - the bachillerato, up to age 18. The school describes its span as "from 0 to 18": crawler groups and groups for one- and two-year-olds, then Educación Infantil, Educación Primaria, ESO and the bachillerato. The IB Middle Years Programme is taken by all pupils at the middle stage, and the Diploma Programme at the upper stage, in two modalities, alongside the national bachillerato. The school is concertada at every stage except the youngest.
Address C/ Cintruénigo, s/n, 31015 Pamplona, Navarra
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · MYP, DP · 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: MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19). 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.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results The school publishes its PAU results: 98 per cent of pupils enrolled in the second year of the bachillerato passed, and 10 pupils scored above 13 points. The school gives no IB Diploma Programme results.
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
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: 24000 square metres of sports grounds; four recently built dining rooms and its own kitchen serving 1100 meals a day, with menus for allergies and intolerances. Five school bus routes across Pamplona and the surrounding area with a carer on each, and city buses 3, 5, 7 and 21 also serve the school. Music education is a strand of its own: 325 music pupils and 60 in the symphonic band.
Clubs and activities (10): German · Football · Programming · Rhythmic gymnastics · STEAM · Judo · Music · Art · First Lego League · Baseball
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 names 220 teachers and assistants; English is taught by 16 teachers and native-speaker assistants. Every pupil has a personal tutor who meets the family once a term; over a year the school counts 14800 conversations with pupils and 4100 with families. The school names no qualifications and no pupil-teacher ratio.
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 roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a psycho-pedagogical guidance department, a therapeutic pedagogy plan, an educational reinforcement programme and a speech therapist; every pupil has a personal tutor. The school mentions recognition for its part in safety and school coexistence programmes. A carer travels on every school bus. The school names no medical room, no security staff, no CCTV and no written child protection policy.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)88 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 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 data78 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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