← Back to homeCuatronaranjos Murcia Active School
Murcia, Spain · Private
Illustration · Murcia
Cuatronaranjos is an active bilingual school in Murcia, on Calle Alcalde Gaspar de la Peña; in law it is Cuatronaranjos Murcia Active School S.L. The school writes that it opened its doors about a decade ago with one clear idea - to give an education that starts from what children actually need. The footer of every page names a NEASC double qualification. The stages are Infantil years one to three and Primaria years one to six, that is from three to twelve; there is no senior stage. The school calls English a language that is lived every day rather than studied apart, and a child's level of English is assessed at admission. The main thing a parent needs to know: the school publishes no monthly or annual tuition figure on its site, only the registration fee.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The registration fee reserves the place the school has offered, is paid once a year per student and is non-refundable: 500 EUR in the first year and 250 EUR on renewal. There is no monthly or annual tuition figure on the site.
Admissions Admission runs in several steps: a pre-registration form, an interview with the family, getting to know the child, an assessment of the child's English, payment of the registration fee and, where needed, a period of settling in and attachment to the centre. In the interviews and on visit days the family learns the school's values, aims and way of working, and the school learns why the family is choosing Cuatronaranjos and what goals it has for the child's education. The pedagogical team reviews everything gathered and decides whether the school covers the family's and the child's needs and whether the child is ready for Cuatronaranjos; the family is then told whether a place is available. A child can join any class if there is a place, but the earlier, the more natural the settling in; groups are small, so the school advises getting in touch early. The school does not write about foreigners or citizenship.
Stages and year groups Grades Infantil years 1-3 - Primaria year 6. By its admission form the school takes students from the first to the third year of Infantil and from the first to the sixth year of Primaria, that is from three to twelve. There is a morning extension from 8:00 to 8:30 and a lunch extension from 14:00 to 15:30.
Address Calle Alcalde Gaspar de la Peña, 27, 30009 Murcia
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
NEASC · 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
NEASCNew England Association of Schools and Colleges
An American accreditation working since 1885. For international schools it uses an approach where the visitors look first at live lessons rather than at folders of paperwork: the team works in the school for about a week. It is the only one here whose public directory honestly separates accredited schools from candidates.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school calls itself a living school in nature: learning outdoors, exploring and connecting with the surroundings. Meals come from its own home-cooked, healthy canteen; there is a morning club for early arrivals and extracurricular activities.
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 the number of its teachers, but describes how groups work: each group has two form tutors, one who speaks to the children in Spanish and one in English, and about half of the time is in English. The school writes that it keeps child-adult ratios low and that the team trains continuously, but it gives no figures, qualifications or group sizes.
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%)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 data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median95 "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.
The full methodology → Similar schools in the country