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Buenos Aires, Argentina · est. 2011 · Private
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A Catholic bilingual school for boys and girls in the gated neighbourhood of Santa Barbara near General Pacheco, in the partido of Tigre. The school is young and has grown together with its first pupils: the kindergarten opened in March 2011, the primary school in 2014, the secondary in 2020. It occupies a plot of 8200 square metres with an entrance of its own from Marcos Paz street and belongs to Fundación para la Educación San Francisco Javier, a foundation set up and headed by Father Ricardo Irigaray, who is also the rector of the school. It teaches from the age of two: English is taught from the sala of two-year-olds and the school calls its bilingualism a real one, while a leaver receives a bachiller certificate with an economics emphasis, meant for going on to university. The pre-school stage works in the morning with optional afternoon workshops, and the primary and the secondary run a full double day until four o'clock. The secondary school runs the Digital House programme of digital education, made together with MercadoLibre and other companies. Religious life is arranged in detail: a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament kept permanently, a priest living at the school, a daily mass during lesson hours, preparation for first communion in the fourth grade and spiritual retreats for the older pupils. The school gives on its site neither the number of pupils, nor tuition amounts, nor a list of its own sports and teaching rooms.
Key facts
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions The school asks that questions of admission be addressed to the stage directly: the pre-school, the primary and the secondary each have telephone numbers of their own, a general number and the rector's email are given separately, and on the contacts page there is an enquiry form. The school names no order of application, no deadlines, no interviews, no entrance tests and no list of documents.
Stages and year groups Grades Sala de 2 años - secundaria. Three stages, and the school opened all three one after another: the kindergarten from March 2011, the primary school from 2014, the secondary from 2020. The pre-school stage runs in salas of two, three, four and five years and works in the morning, from half past eight until twelve, and the afternoon workshops there are optional. The primary and the secondary work a double day: the primary from 8:30 to 16:15, the secondary from 8:30 to 16:30. The school names no class sizes and no number of year groups.
Address Marcos Paz 2142, barrio Santa Bárbara, General Pacheco, Tigre, Buenos Aires
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · 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
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
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. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school stands in the gated neighbourhood of Santa Barbara, next to the neighbourhood management office and opposite the local club, and occupies a plot of 8200 square metres with a separate entrance of its own from Marcos Paz street. At the school there is a chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is kept permanently, and the school calls it its spiritual centre. The school claims no number of buildings, no sports hall, no pitches, no library, no laboratories and no pool, and the gallery and news pages did not open.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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 policynot stated on the website
A priest lives at the school permanently, and the school describes his presence as daily accompaniment of the pupils. Both directors of the pre-school stage and the director of the primary are psychopedagogues by training, and the school calls this part of its approach to every child. The school publishes no separate child protection policy, no anti-bullying rules, no medical room, no security and no video surveillance.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)60 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 data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median75 "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.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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