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Zaragoza, Spain · est. 1978 · Private
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Colegio Juan de Lanuza was born in 1978 in Zaragoza: a group of families defending the right to choose their children's education set up the cooperative that still owns the school. The school is private, bilingual and secular, and takes children from the age of two to the end of the bachillerato, with two classes per year group. English is the structural framework of the school and the language of communication: in the two-year-old group everything is in English only, from three to five half the day is spent with an English-speaking teacher, in primary school subjects are taught in English and Spanish, and the natural and social sciences by the CLIL method. From the first grade French or German can be added, and Chinese is also on the school's list of languages; by the school's account pupils reach B2-C1 by the end of the secondary stage, and in the bachillerato they can sit Cambridge Proficiency. The school is itself a Cambridge University examination centre, and there are official examiners among its teachers. About the International Baccalaureate the school writes that it is only going through its authorisation as an IB World School, and names no authorised stage. Among its features are its own kitchen and a sustainable food programme since the 2012-2013 school year, a makerspace since 2017-2018, an innovation chair run with the University of Zaragoza, a personal tutor from the fifth grade and a programme of pupil helpers and mediators against conflicts. The newspaper El Mundo has for 24 years in a row included the school in the hundred best schools in Spain as the best private school in Aragon. In summer the school has two camps: an English day camp in the first two weeks of July and twelve-day residential camps in the Pyrenees and on the Costa Brava.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Languages taught
French, German, Chinese
Admissions The school takes applications through the "Solicitud de admisión" form on its site or by telephone, with a personal visit; places, it says, are very limited. Children from abroad are accepted and even given priority: for expatriates living in Zaragoza the school announces preferential admission as members of the cooperative that owns the school, and it is enough to note in the remarks of the application that the family has come from abroad. The youngest children are taken from the age of two into Little Lanuza, and this group guarantees a place in the first year of kindergarten. The school publishes no entrance tests, deadlines or list of documents.
Stages and year groups Grades Little Lanuza from age 2 - 2nd year of the bachillerato, to age 18. The stages follow the Spanish pattern: Little Lanuza for two-year-olds, kindergarten from three to six, primary school from the first to the sixth grade, ESO from twelve to sixteen and two years of the bachillerato. Each stage has two classes per year group. In the bachillerato the school runs two tracks: sciences, and humanities and social sciences. There are no International Baccalaureate stages yet: the school writes that it is still seeking authorisation.
Address Carretera del Aeropuerto, 275, 50011 Zaragoza
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe IB record is of the cand kind because the school's own website confirms only an application, not authorisation: the school writes that it is going through its authorisation as an IB World School. The school names no authorised stage on its pages.
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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.
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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
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
Also on site: Makerspace
Campus: The school stands on the Carretera del Aeropuerto in Zaragoza. The primary classrooms are bright, with internet and digital boards, designed for group work and double classrooms. There is its own kitchen with menus of organic and local produce, two computer rooms, two mobile classrooms, a makerspace since 2017-2018 (25 Arduino kits, two 3D printers, a podcasting set and a studio with a chroma screen), and school bus routes. In the third and fourth years of ESO each pupil has a laptop of their own, and in the bachillerato pupils bring their own devices.
Clubs and activities (23): Chess · Basketball · Mini-basketball · Percussion · Chinese · Creations in Paint & Print · Theatre in English · Athletics · Esports · 8-a-side football · Mini-football · Rhythmic gymnastics · Guitar · Ice hockey · Magic tricks · Karate · Multi-sports · Music and movement · Piano · Padel and tennis · Street Dance · Art Attack · Yoga
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
In summer the school has two camps. Happy & Living English is a day camp at the school itself in the first two weeks of July, Monday to Friday from 9 to 15, for children from three to the fourth grade: activities only in English with native and bilingual teachers, and on the last night a camp-out with tents at the school. Adventure Camp is a twelve-day residential camp in the Aragonese Pyrenees and on the Costa Brava: for the second to fifth grades the Adventure Camp programme, for the sixth grade to the fourth year of ESO the English Adventure programme with the sea at Estartit by the Medes Islands and the mountains of the Broto valley.
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. Languages, it says, are taught by native speakers and bilingual teachers with experience of working in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, France, Germany and China; among the teachers there are official Cambridge University examiners. From the fifth grade each pupil has a personal tutor in addition to the class teacher. Teachers follow the school's own training programme in digital skills. The school's computing teacher Cristian Ruiz Reinales received the best teacher award at the III Premios Educar para el Futuro of the Ibercaja foundation in 2025. In the two-year-old group, the school says, there are very few children per teacher, but it gives no figure.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
Since the 2015/2016 school year the school has run a programme for preventing and resolving conflicts with pupil helpers and pupil mediators, designed by the school's team of counsellors. From the fifth grade a personal tutor follows each pupil together with the family. On the school buses children are accompanied by monitors from the moment they board until they are handed over to the teacher. For reporting misconduct the school has a complaints channel that allows anonymous reports. The school names no medical worker, security staff, video surveillance or separate child protection policy.
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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 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 median82 "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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