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Torrelodones, Spain · est. 1964 · Private
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Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, CSIL for short, is a Catholic diocesan school in Torrelodones near Madrid, owned by the parish of San Ignacio de Loyola and open since 1964. It is a large school: more than 1800 pupils from nursery to bachillerato and vocational training, on two sites. Kindergarten from three, primary and ESO are state-funded (concierto), while the nursery under three, the bachillerato including the IB Diploma Programme, and higher vocational training are private. The school is bilingual: since 2006 it has been in the BEDA programme, since 2020 it has held the Community of Madrid's bilingual excellence level, from kindergarten lessons are in Spanish and English throughout the day, and every class has native English-speaking assistants; from 1º ESO French and German are added. The school is a Cambridge examination centre. It runs the IB diploma in three tracks: science and technology, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities; in 2024-2025 the average diploma score was 31, and a quarter of leavers scored more than 34. In the PAU university examination of 2026, 99% of pupils passed, with a best result of 13.62. The school builds its project on five pillars: art, personalised learning, innovation with an iPad for every pupil, sport, and internationalisation with Erasmus+, exchanges and status as a European Parliament ambassador school. It has a sports club, a dance school, theatre and music schools, and in summer a day camp and themed camps.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Admits from
a few months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Languages taught
French, German
Students
More than 1800 pupils, from the first cycle of kindergarten to bachillerato and vocational training, according to the school.
About the fees Kindergarten from three, primary and ESO are state-funded and tuition there is free; the school's fee-paying stages are the nursery under three, the bachillerato including the IB, and higher vocational training, but the school does not publish the fees for them on its site. It is known that these stages have a monthly payment, a second sibling receives a 20% discount, and Madrid and the Torrelodones municipality give grants for private bachillerato. Service rates for 2026-2027 are published: the canteen is 125.35 euros a month when paid from September to June, morning care from 7:30 is 68 euros a month, and the digital fee is 304.26 euros a year.
Admissions The admission procedure depends on the stage. For kindergarten from three, primary and ESO the school admits under the Community of Madrid's general procedure for state-funded schools and publishes its vacancies and calendar. For the nursery under three, the bachillerato and the IB the family arranges an interview through the secretariat. For the bachillerato new pupils reserve a place from the end of January to the end of May with a 50 euro deposit, and there is a family meeting with the academic management and an interview with the pupil; they need to have completed ESO with no failed subjects and at least 6 in each subject, and for the IB at least 7, English at B2 or above, a letter of recommendation and an interview; the family must accept the school's Catholic character. Enrolment runs from 22 June to 10 July with a 150 euro fee. The school accepts children from other countries: it runs an Aula Enlace, a class of up to 12 pupils of any nationality where new pupils are taught Spanish and helped to settle into the school.
Stages and year groups Grades nursery (from age 0) - 2nd year of bachillerato and vocational training. Stages: kindergarten for ages 0-6, primary from year 1 to 6, ESO from year 1 to 4, the national bachillerato in the science, humanities and social sciences, and arts tracks, the IB bachillerato in three tracks, and vocational training: basic level in gardening and floristry, intermediate - nature guides and care of dependent people, higher - sports animation, fitness, early childhood education, social integration and three design programmes. In the IB language and literature and English are taken at higher level, and the subjects include history, business management, physics, biology, chemistry, environmental systems and societies and two mathematics courses. There is a class for autistic children, speech and language classrooms and a programme for gifted pupils. The school does not state class sizes.
Address Calle Arroyo de los Viales, 4, 28250 Torrelodones
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
31 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB diploma in 2024-2025: average score 31, above the world average, a quarter of leavers scored more than 34 points, 20% had a university entrance mark above 12 and all above 9. PAU examination: in 2024-2025, 100% passed, the highest mark was 13.56; in 2026: 99% passed, 15 pupils scored above 12, three above 13, and the highest mark was 13.62.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school has two sites in Torrelodones: one for vocational training and another for all the other stages. The main site has the María de Villota indoor sports hall, a gymnasium, outdoor courts and playgrounds, a theatre with rehearsal rooms and dressing rooms, laboratories, computer rooms, a secondary library, music rooms, sensory spaces for kindergarten, dining rooms and a cafeteria, a medical room and a chapel. Every secondary pupil has their own iPad.
Clubs and activities: Sports club · Dance school · Music school · Theatre school · Beginners' sport · Roller skating · Taekwondo · Judo · Pickleball · Drawing and painting · Art and ceramics · Drama and music · Science games · Lab games · Robotics · Study hall (secondary) · School radio
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
In summer 2026 the school ran the Multiaventura day camp from 22 June to 24 July for children aged 3-13, from 9:00 to 16:30, with excursions on Thursdays and two overnight stays; one week cost 169 euros, five weeks 599 euros, and the camp was open to children from outside. There were also the Vive Broadway theatre camp for ages 9-16 (159 euros a week), ballet and modern dance camps for ages 6-18 (from 145 to 465 euros) and a residential basketball campus in Calpe. There are also language stays abroad for the summer, a term or a year.
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's leadership is named: head Mª Ángeles Quesada, the heads of the stages and IB coordinator Jon González. From kindergarten, the school says, lessons in Spanish and English are taught by highly qualified teachers, and every class up to bachillerato has native English-speaking assistants. The guidance department works with pupils: psycho-pedagogical assessments, individual plans, speech therapy and remedial teaching, a programme for gifted pupils and careers guidance. The school does not state the number of teachers or the 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 room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a school nurse: she helps with injuries and illness during the day, looks after children with chronic conditions, gives health lessons and trains staff in first aid. There is a health office offering sleep care and physiotherapy, an emotional wellbeing service, mediation sessions after conflicts, and a guidance department that contacts social services and the police if a child is at risk. A coexistence plan, internal regulations and a digital plan are published. The school names no security guards and no video surveillance.
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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 data85 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.
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