← Back to homeColegio Santa María de los Rosales
Madrid, Spain · est. 1952 · Private
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Colegio Santa María de los Rosales has been running in the Aravaca district of Madrid since 1952, founded by a group of academics and businessmen to create a private school that would be "a new centre of education". Today children of more than 32 nationalities study there, and the school has more than 10 thousand former pupils. Its 21960 m2 site holds 10793 m2 of buildings, divided into pavilions: a central one with the ESO and baccalaureate classrooms, laboratories, a library, an assembly hall, an amphitheatre, an exhibition room and a chapel; a separate kindergarten pavilion with its own library, courtyards, vegetable garden and rooms for music, drama, psychomotor work and speech therapy; two pavilions for the first cycle of primary school; and the sports area. Teaching is bilingual - the school calls Spanish and English its vehicles of learning - and from primary school on there are French and German with preparation for Cambridge, DELF and the Goethe-Zertifikat. The school describes its education as intellectual, social and spiritual, and Christian guidance is a service of its own. The main new thing: from 2026/2027 the school runs the IB Diploma as the Rosales-Nebrija International College programme together with Universidad Nebrija, with most subjects taught in English; the national baccalaureate in three streams remains alongside it. The 2026 leavers all passed the PAU, with an average university-entrance mark of 8.34. There are nineteen extracurricular activities, from field hockey and skiing to cello and electric guitar. Admission starts at two: the school has an "aula de 2 años".
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Languages taught
French, German
Admissions The school takes foreign pupils: children of more than 32 nationalities study there. It names no special conditions for children from other countries and no requirements for documents or recognition of schooling abroad. The school does not describe its admission conditions: the admissions section carries only an information request form, an email address and telephone numbers. Pupils are taken from the group for 2-year-olds up to the 2nd year of the bachillerato; the school announces places in the Rosales-Nebrija IB Diploma programme for 2026/2027. It publishes no deadlines, tests, documents or language requirements.
Stages and year groups Grades group for 2-year-olds (aula de 2 años) - 2nd year of the bachillerato. The stages run right through: a two-year-olds' group, kindergarten, primary school, ESO and baccalaureate. At the last stage there is a choice of two paths - the national baccalaureate in the Science and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences and Arts streams with a set of options, and the IB Diploma within the Rosales-Nebrija programme.
Address C/ Virgen de los Rosales, 1, 28023 Madrid
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results The school publishes the result of the national university-entrance examination: the 2026 leavers had a one hundred per cent pass rate in the PAU and an average university-entrance mark of 8.34. It has no IB Diploma results yet: it has run the programme since 2026/2027.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: A 21960 m2 site with 10793 m2 of buildings: a central pavilion of almost 6000 m2 with laboratories, a library, an assembly hall, an amphitheatre, an exhibition room and a chapel; a kindergarten pavilion of more than 1500 m2 with its own library and courtyards; pavilions for the first cycle of primary school; and the sports area. Sport: an artificial-grass pitch for field hockey and football, two gymnasiums (305.65 and 223.45 m2), three padel courts, a mini-basketball court, multi-sport courts, a volleyball court and an athletics track. The dining hall is 326 m2 with its own kitchen: a head chef, four cooks and support staff, three menus a day by age group and medical supervision of the diet; there is also a cafeteria and a school vegetable garden linked directly to the kitchen. Transport runs on the school's own routes through central Madrid, Aravaca and Pozuelo de Alarcón, with a driver and an escort, ending at a private car park with direct access to the classrooms.
Clubs and activities (19): Ballet · Judo · Volleyball · Basketball · Football · Field hockey · Skiing · Ice skating · Padel · Chess · Psychomotor skills · Creative painting and ceramics · Cello · Flute · Classical guitar · Electric guitar · Piano · Violin · Percussion
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 its leadership by name: the director general, the technical directors of the kindergarten, the primary school and ESO with the baccalaureate, the IB programme coordinator, as well as the board of trustees and the administrative staff. About the teachers the school says only that the staff is "highly qualified"; it names neither the number of teachers, nor qualifications, nor the pupil-teacher ratio, nor class sizes.
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 policy
The guidance department has a staff of its own: a psychologist, an educational psychologist and a speech therapist. Among its lines of work the school names the prevention and early detection of learning difficulties, a plan of attention to diversity (PAD), a tutorial action plan (PAT) and the prevention of bullying and school violence, as well as active work on the school's coexistence plan. The medical service has a doctor and a nurse on site daily, with annual check-ups, administration of medicines and several beds so that a child can be kept at school when the parents cannot come at once.
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