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Palma, Spain · est. 1962 · Private
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Colegio San Cayetano is a private Catholic school in Palma de Mallorca run by the Theatine order (Orden de Clérigos Regulares Teatinos). The school dates its beginning to 1962, while the director in his letter recalls the first school year of 1963 with one teacher and one pupil; it now describes itself as a school with more than 60 years of history. The ladder is complete, from one to eighteen: Escoleta for children of one and two, infant school, primary school, ESO and then a choice between the national bachillerato in two tracks and the IB Diploma Programme, which the school has taught since 2021 bilingually, in Spanish and English. Spanish, Catalan and English are subjects at every stage, German from the fifth grade, French and Chinese as extracurricular activities; in bachillerato some subjects are taught in English with preparation for C1 and C2. The school publishes its results in detail: in May 2026, 97 percent obtained the IB diploma against 83 worldwide with an average score of 32.10, and in the national PAU examination a pupil of the school scored in 2019 the first perfect 10.0 in the history of the Balearic Islands. The grounds cover 80000 square metres with gardens, vegetable plots, ponds, swimming pools, a basketball pavilion, a football field and running tracks. There are more than forty extracurricular activities, and in summer there is an English-language Summer School. The newspaper El Mundo named the school the best in the Balearic Islands in its annual ranking.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Languages taught
Catalan, German
Admissions Admission for the 2026-2027 school year is open at all stages, subject to places; first the family asks the office about places. Then come three steps. The first is a personal interview at the school: for the infant and primary school with the deputy head, who shows the school, for ESO and bachillerato with the deputy head for those stages, for the IB programme with its coordinator, if possible together with the pupil and under a separate IB admission policy; the interview takes place only if there is a place and is not needed if a brother or sister already attends the school. From the fifth grade upwards the family brings the marks for the last three years to the interview. The second is a request for the forms. The third is enrolment in person: forms signed by both parents, the documents of the pupil and the parents - the Spanish DNI or the foreigner's identity number NIE, and with an NIE also a passport - the family book or a birth certificate, the marks and bank details, all as originals, and payment of the first part of the enrolment fee. In the Escoleta there are very few places for children who do not yet walk. The school accepts foreigners: in its list of enrolment documents it expressly provides for the foreigner's identity number with a passport, and among its extracurricular activities it teaches Spanish for foreigners.
Stages and year groups Grades Escoleta from age 1 - 2nd year of bachillerato or the IB diploma, to age 18. The stages as the school gives them: Escoleta ages 1-2, infant school ages 3-5, primary school ages 6-11, ESO ages 12-15, national bachillerato ages 16-18 in the science and technology and the humanities and social sciences tracks, and the IB Diploma Programme ages 16-18, bilingual, with German as an option and the subjects Global Politics, Environmental Systems and Societies and Visual Arts. The Escoleta is open from 7:45 to 17:45; bachillerato runs from 8:00 to 14:00 and on one or two days a week also from 15:00 to 17:00. The school does not state class sizes.
Address Avenida Picasso, 21, 07014 Palma de Mallorca
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · 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: 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.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Average IB score
32.1 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma, May 2026: 97 percent passed against 83 worldwide, top score 42 out of 45, average 32.10 against 30.88 worldwide, average grade per subject 5.20 against 4.93; all diplomas bilingual. May 2025: 100 percent against 81.3, top score 41, average 32.4, per subject 5.41. May 2024: 91 percent against 80, top scores 44 and 42, average 33. May 2023: 85.2 percent against 79.6, average 29.6. National PAU examination: from 2019 to 2024, in half of the sessions the best result in the Balearic Islands belonged to a pupil of the school; in 2019 the first perfect 10.0 in the history of the islands, in 2021: 9.9, in 2024: 9.8.
Where leavers go: University of Bath · Loughborough University · Maastricht University · University of Amsterdam · Universitat de les Illes Balears · Universidad Complutense de Madrid · Universidad de Navarra · CUNEF
The school gives a list of universities for the IB class of 2023: Bath, Loughborough, Maastricht, Amsterdam, the University of the Balearic Islands, Complutense, Navarra, CUNEF; the same list includes University of Neumark. For the national bachillerato the school lists no universities, but it holds its own university fair.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: Grounds of 80000 square metres on Avenida Picasso in Palma: gardens, lawns, vegetable plots, ponds and an "Enchanted Forest" for the youngest, swimming pools, a basketball pavilion, volleyball, a football field and running tracks. Its own kitchen with a zero-sugar policy in the Escoleta and a canteen with a nurse, a school library with an online catalogue, and the ManageBac platform for IB pupils.
Clubs and activities (32): Athletics · Basketball · Tennis · Football · Ice hockey · Karate · Rhythmic gymnastics · Chess · Volleyball · Table tennis · Mini-football · Group piano and guitar · Individual violin, piano, guitar, electric guitar, bass, drums and voice lessons · Instrumental combo · Ballet and pre-ballet · Musical theatre · Vocal groups · Storytellers · English Club · German · French · Chinese · Debating and public speaking club · Spanish for foreigners · Catalan for all · Drawing and crafts · Robotix · Programming & VR · Touch typing · Contemporary dance · Swimming · Figure skating
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 neither a staff list nor the number of teachers. It names the admission leads: the deputy heads for the infant and primary school and for ESO and bachillerato and the IB programme coordinator; the head of the school is Pablo Guerrero Pacheco of the Theatine order. The Escoleta teachers, according to the school, are certified in Positive Discipline (PDA); there is a guidance department with psychologists and a speech therapist; extracurricular activities are taught by the school's own teachers and by outside specialists.
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 policynot stated on the website
The school publishes eight approved action protocols under the rules of the Balearic education department: on sexual offences, allergies and intolerances, head lice, accidents, bullying, absenteeism, attention to diversity and child abuse; according to the school, all staff are trained in these procedures. There is a nursing service, with a nurse present throughout the canteen service; there is a guidance department with psychologists and a speech therapist, internal rules and a whistleblowing channel. The school names no security staff and no video surveillance.
Reviews
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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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data75 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 Value for money (6%) scored at the median64 "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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