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Molina de Segura, Spain · est. 1996 · Private
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Colegio San Jorge is a non-religious state-funded (concertado) school in the La Alcayna development in Molina de Segura near Murcia; it is run by the teaching cooperative Sociedad Cooperativa de Enseñanza La Alcayna, and its educational project began in the 1996-1997 school year. The school takes children from nursery at age zero to the bachillerato and since 2018 has been part of the IB world: it calls itself the first state-funded school in the Murcia region authorised to run the IB Diploma Programme, which it offers alongside the national bachillerato in three tracks. It calls itself a 'Spanish school in four languages': English immersion from age one, almost half of primary subjects taught in English, German added from year 5 and then French; native-speaker teachers work there, and pupils sit Cambridge examinations, up to B1 by the end of primary. In secondary every pupil has an iPad and a personal tutor, and the psycho-pedagogical guidance department supports those who need help. The campus is large: separate blocks for kindergarten, primary and secondary, a library, a canteen with its own kitchen, a sports hall, a heated pool, courts and a vegetable garden with a 'green classroom'. The school was one of the first in the region to employ a school nurse. Its buses serve more than 30 towns in the region, after lessons sports clubs, swimming, chess and a summer camp run on site, and every February the school hosts the Trail San Jorge Dragon mountain race for more than 1500 runners.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP, DP · National programme
Admits from
a few months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Languages taught
German, French
Admissions Enrolment is open throughout the school year. The family arranges an interview with the admissions department through reception or by email and receives a pack with information on deadlines and procedures by stage; if the child initially qualifies, they are given an enrolment form. Pupils transferring from other schools take an entrance assessment that considers reports from the previous school, age and an evaluation by the school's guidance counsellor; the final decision is taken by the admissions board. There are open days and individual visits. The school accepts children who studied abroad: it writes that they need to have their previous education officially recognised (homologated) and that information on the procedure is available at the school. The school names no requirement to know Spanish.
Stages and year groups Grades nursery (age 0) - 2nd year of bachillerato. Stages: San Jorge Nursery School for ages 0-3 (with one subsidised class for children aged 2-3), kindergarten for ages 3-5, primary, ESO and the bachillerato - national and international, both in the health sciences, science and technology, and social sciences tracks. Primary runs from 9:15 to 17:15, six and a half hours a day, four hours on Friday, 30.5 hours a week in all; by the end of primary every pupil learns to play the guitar. The IB Diploma Programme lasts two years, with six subjects, theory of knowledge, CAS and a 4000-word extended essay. The organisation chart also lists a coordinator for the Primary Years Programme (PEP). The school does not state class sizes.
Address Avenida Picos de Europa s/n, Urbanización La Alcayna, 30507 Molina de Segura (Murcia)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, 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: PYP (ages 3-12), DP (ages 16-19). 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. 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
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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: The primary block has 16 classrooms, 4 of them for split groups, with a 'home-like' setting; in the kindergarten block each classroom has its own playground. ESO and bachillerato classrooms are in a separate block, with biology and chemistry laboratories, a physics and technology workshop, an art studio, computing and robotics; each stage has its own computer room. The library is more than 250 m² with a play area and work zones, the canteen more than 500 m² with rooms by age and its own kitchen. For sport there is a tall, bright sports hall, covered and open courts and a heated pool where two-year-olds do psychomotor sessions in the water. The nursery has a lawn of more than 500 m², and the school has a vegetable garden with a 'green classroom'. Buses bring children from more than 30 towns in the region.
Clubs and activities: Swimming (Club Natación Murcia) · Basketball · Football · Chess (Educajedrez) · Club San Jorge · Be Academy · Music lessons · Art classes · Trail San Jorge Dragon mountain race
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 leadership is named: academic director Mª Esther Pérez Esquerdo, heads of studies by stage, PEP coordinator María Soriano Ruiz, Diploma Programme coordinator and head of bachillerato José Manuel Castro Belmonte, heads of the science, humanities and languages departments, and nursery director Carmen María Leiva Gómez. The nursery has carers qualified in English and native speakers; in secondary and the upper school groups are split for conversation practice with native-speaker teachers. Every secondary pupil has a personal tutor. The school does not state the number of teachers, their qualifications 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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a qualified school nurse: first aid for illness and injury during the school day, care of children with chronic conditions - diabetes, coeliac disease, allergies - and health programmes. The psycho-pedagogical guidance department, together with personal tutors, follows pupils' studies and emotional state. In the canteen children are supervised by monitors. The school names no security guards, no video surveillance and no written child protection policy.
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