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Malaga, Spain · Private
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Colegio Sierra Blanca is a private bilingual school of the Attendis group on Avenida de Plutarco in Málaga, one of a pair with the girls' school El Romeral: their pages, services and news are shared, their addresses are not. The group grew out of the initiative of parents' associations inspired by the teaching of St Josemaría and is run by Centros Familiares de Enseñanza, a company that does not distribute profits but reinvests them in the schools. The stages run from Attendis Preschool (from 0 to 2 years) through kindergarten, primary school and ESO to the baccalaureate, that is from 0 to 18. Teaching is bilingual, with language immersion and preparation for the Cambridge English examinations, and the school calls itself an "IB World School": its teachers are certified for International Baccalaureate programmes, and it builds its plan of human formation on the attributes of the IB learner profile, adding two of its own - "with a sense of the transcendent" and "oriented towards the good". The school's page does not say at which stage the IB programme is authorised.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The only fee named on the site is for the Attendis Preschool stage: 353 euros with lunch included for the 0-2 group from 9:00 to 17:00. That is a nursery price, not a school one; the site states no fee for kindergarten, primary school, ESO or the baccalaureate.
Admissions The group describes admission to its Malaga schools in the same way: the school office arranges a meeting for the parents with the governing committee, at which they learn about the school and its project, while the child sits a short placement test; the school reports back on progress within a week at most. Children are taken from 6 months - at Attendis Preschool Malaga - and onwards up to the baccalaureate. The school posts its admissions policy as a separate document, and applications are made with the "Solicitar plaza" form on the school page. There are no conditions for foreign families and no language requirements on the school's pages.
Stages and year groups Grades Attendis Preschool from 6 months - year 2 of the baccalaureate, that is up to age 18. The group's Málaga page says plainly "De 0 a 18 años": Attendis Preschool (0-2 years), Educación Infantil, Primaria, Secundaria and Bachillerato. The nursery runs from 9:00 to 17:00.
Address Avenida de Plutarco, 34, 29010 Málaga
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP · authorised programmeAttendis · school is part of the networkschool 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), MYP (ages 11-16). 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. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible.
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Attendis is a private school group in southern Spain founded in 1972. On its site the group lists 20 schools and 13 Attendis Preschool nurseries in Andalusia and Extremadura: two schools each in Algeciras, Almería, Badajoz, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga, Marbella, Seville and the El Puerto de Santa María and Jerez area. According to the group, all of its schools were started by parents inspired by the teachings of Saint Josemaría on education and the family. Since the early years the schools have been run by the public limited company Centros Familiares de Enseñanza, registered in the Seville Commercial Register. The group's site is attendis.com.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
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
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school has its own dining hall with a daily menu and an afternoon snack, and school bus routes: the timetable of the dining hall, the extracurricular activities and the outward and return routes are kept on a shared "Agenda y servicios Sierra Blanca" page.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 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 data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median76 "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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