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Madrid, Spain · est. 1859 · Private
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Colegio Sagrado Corazón Chamartín is a state-funded private school (concertada) in Madrid's Chamartín and one of the oldest in the city: the sisters of the Sacred Heart established their community here in 1859, on 29 October of that year the opening mass of the school year was held with six pupils, and in 1860 a free school opened for the girls of Chamartín and Fuencarral. In 1931 the building burned, in 1939 the school reopened, and from the 1986/87 school year, under its agreement with the state, it became co-educational. Today it belongs to an educational foundation, and its website sits on the foundation's subdomain. The stages run from Infantil to Bachillerato. Its IB Primary Years Programme is authorised, an application has been filed for the Middle Years Programme, and the school is working towards authorisation in primary and secondary school. The language of lessons is Spanish: all the pages for families and pupils are written in it, and the school strengthens English through the BEDA programme, which gradually introduces bilingual Spanish-English teaching; the school is a Cambridge examination centre, and pupils sit examinations from Starters in grade 3 to Proficiency in the 2nd year of the Bachillerato, and there is also DELF for French. Since the 2015/16 school year the school has run the American dual diploma with Academica - online, from the 2nd year of ESO. The pastoral side is large: catechesis, Barat groups and families, "Hijos de María", a social action plan and solidarity campaigns. Extracurricular activities and SACO sport are run by Randori Sport, and there is mountaineering, a music programme and Talent Talk.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish
Languages taught
English, French
Admissions The school does not set out its admission procedure on the website: admission, enrolment and place reservation are handled by the secretariat, Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 13:00 and from 15:30 to 16:30, except in August, on 91.302.35.40 and at secretaria.chamartin@fesofiabarat.es. The school publishes no deadlines, documents, tests or language requirements.
Stages and year groups Grades kindergarten - baccalaureate. The school menu divides teaching into Infantil, Primaria, ESO and Bachillerato, and each stage has its own coordinator; there are two pedagogical directorates - one for Infantil with Primaria and one for ESO with Bachillerato. The IB Primary Years Programme covers Infantil and Primaria, and the school has applied for the middle stage. The American dual diploma can be started from the 2nd year of ESO. The school does not name the age limits of its stages.
Address c/ Santa Magdalena Sofía, 12, 28036 Madrid (Chamartín)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeFundación Educativa Sofía Barat · 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.
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Fundación Educativa Sofía Barat is a non-profit foundation set up on 5 March 2019 by the Congregation of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Religiosas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús) as a canonical foundation operating across Spain. It brings together the country's Sacred Heart schools: the first of them, Colegio Sagrat Cor de Sarrià in Barcelona, opened in 1846, and in 2014 the congregation's schools were grouped into the Red de Colegios del Sagrado Corazón. The foundation's site lists 15 schools: in Barcelona (two), Madrid (two), Seville (two), Valencia (two, one of them in Godella), Zaragoza (two), Bilbao, Pamplona, Granada, Fuerteventura and Placeres (Pontevedra). The schools follow the tradition of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, who founded the first Sacred Heart school in Amiens in 1801. The foundation's site is fesofiabarat.es.
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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 transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Of its rooms and services the school names the school dining hall and the hire of its premises; the site gives no list of classrooms, laboratories or sports facilities.
Clubs and activities (11): Public speaking · Inner world and emotional intelligence · Creative workshop · Imagine and Play · French workshop · Conversational English with a language assistant · SACO sports and extracurricular activities · Mountain trekking · Music education programme · Talent Talk · Academica Dual Diploma
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.
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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 data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median67 "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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