← Back to homeConcept International College
Marbella, Spain · est. 2024 · Private
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Concept International College is a Russian school in San Pedro de Alcántara, a district of Marbella. It teaches the Russian federal programmes of primary, basic and secondary general education, from grade 1 to grade 11, in Russian, and holds state accreditation from Rosobrnadzor, so it runs the state final assessment itself: pupils sit the OGE and EGE exams in Spain, without travelling to Russia, and receive the Russian school certificate. The founders are Russian citizens Olga Pakhomova and Elena Makarenko; the organisation is registered in London as Concept International College LLP, and its branch operates in Spain. The school offers four forms of study: full-time, attending school every day on a timetable with marks and homework; part-time, combining school attendance with online classes; distance study through an online account; and family education, where the child is attached to the school only for assessments. The school is open Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 17:00 and on Saturday from 9:00 to 16:00. English is taught from grade 2, and in grades 10-11 at an advanced level together with social studies.
Key facts
Programmes
Russian programme
Languages of instruction
Russian
Admissions The school promises to enrol a child at any point in the school year, by age and the programme already covered, to open a personal file and to issue certificates, transcripts and references. The admission rules are published as a separate document; the website pages do not set out admission conditions or required documents, and say nothing about applicants' citizenship.
Stages and year groups Grades grades 1-11. Primary general education lasts 4 years (grades 1-4), basic general education 5 years (grades 5-9, OGE), secondary general education 2 years (grades 10-11, EGE). The programmes are federal, following the federal state standards, and the curriculum and calendar are federal too. In grades 10-11 English and social studies are taught at an advanced level. Forms of study: full-time, part-time, distance and family education. The school does not give class sizes.
Address Calle Santa Lucia 3, 29670 San Pedro Alcantara, Marbella (Málaga)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Russian state accreditationschool 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
Russian state accreditationFederal Service for Supervision in Education and Science
Russian state accreditation, held not by the school as a whole but by its educational programmes: on an accredited programme a leaver receives the Russian state-issued certificate. Institutions abroad are gathered in the registry under a code of their own, and their certificates carry a term - twelve years from issue. No visit to the school is intended: since 2022 the indicators are calculated from documents and returns.
What the badge means for this school. The school holds Russian state accreditation, and that can be checked in the open registry. It means the right to award the Russian certificate on the accredited programmes - and nothing about the quality of teaching, the premises or the school's international programme. Levels of education are accredited separately, so it is worth checking whether the accreditation reaches the final year. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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The Russian school programme: a state-issued leaving certificate used for entry to Russian universities. The certificate is awarded on the results of the state final attestation - the OGE after Year 9 and the EGE after Year 11.
What this means for this school. This school holds Russian state accreditation: its education programmes have been checked by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, and the entry is visible in the open register. Accreditation is granted level by level, so the main question here is whether it runs as far as the final year: a school may have the right to award a certificate for Year 9 and not for Year 11.
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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
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 does not publish its full teaching staff: the staff page is empty. Three are named: founder and teacher of Russian language and literature Olga Pakhomova, founder and teacher of technical drawing and fine art Elena Makarenko, and biology and chemistry teacher Dmitry Spodarets. Pakhomova is also director of education and development, Makarenko director of finance.
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 data55 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median67 "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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