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Godella, Spain · est. 1976 · Private
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A British school near Valencia, in the Campo Olivar estate of the municipality of Godella, for ages 3 to 18. It was founded in 1976 as a British nursery in a Valencian farmhouse among century-old olive trees; in 1981 the school moved to Campo Olivar and began teaching up to age 14, in 1996-1998 it opened its secondary school and IGCSE exams, and in 2001-2003 Year 12 and Year 13 with A Level exams. The school is a secular teaching cooperative (The Olive Branch, Coop. V.), a member of the National Association of British Schools in Spain, NABSS, and is recognised by the Valencian Department of Education as a foreign centre. Lessons are in English following the British curriculum with native-speaker teachers, and the compulsory areas of the Spanish education system are taught in addition, so qualifications are recognised both in the United Kingdom and in Spain. From its early years the school drew on the ideas of Montessori, Freinet and Piaget. The school publishes its results in detail: in recent years 96-100 per cent of pupils obtain A*-C at IGCSE in at least five subjects, 94-100 per cent pass A Level, and all graduates pass the Spanish university entrance tests with an average of 11-12.5 out of 14. The school writes about a multicultural family atmosphere, a school fair in aid of charities and trips to Madrid, Seville, London and Berlin. The school does not publish tuition fees on its site; prices are given for lunches and the bus.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
About the fees The school does not publish tuition fees on its site; prices are given only for lunches and the school bus.
Admissions The school does not set out its admission procedure on the site: the admissions page has only an enquiry form, and families are invited to call or come for a visit to discuss the stages and the admission process. The school names no requirements regarding citizenship, language or documents.
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery (age 3) to Year 13. Infantil: Nursery (ages 3-4), Reception (4-5) and Year 1 (5-6); primary school Years 2-7 (ages 6-12); secondary school Years 8-11 (12-16) with IGCSE exams; bachillerato Years 12-13 (16-18) with AS and A Level exams and preparation for the Spanish university entrance tests. The school gives the correspondence to Spanish years in tables on each stage page.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeNABSS · 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
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. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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NABSS (National Association of British Schools in Spain) is not an owner of schools but an association of British schools in Spain, founded in 1978 by a group of leading British schools in the country. According to the association, it has more than 80 member schools, which educate more than 49,000 children and employ more than 5,000 teachers. Only schools officially authorised by the Spanish authorities as foreign schools teaching the British education system and certified by the British Council after inspections can be members; new schools that are still developing are not admitted straight away. The association represents the schools' common interests, encourages collaboration between them and holds an annual conference; its school finder places member schools in Madrid, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Andalusia, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Murcia and other regions. The association's site is nabss.org.
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
Exam results IGCSE: in 2021, 168 exams, A*-C in at least five subjects for 100 per cent of pupils, share of A and A* 54.8 per cent; in 2022, 170 exams, 96.4 and 52.0 per cent; in 2023, 176, 96.4 and 52.9; in 2024, 174, 100 and 60.3; in 2025, 175, 96.4 and 52.9. A Level (A-E): 94.3 per cent in 2021, 98.7 in 2022, 100 in 2023, 98.4 in 2024 and 100 in 2025; AS Level: 95.5, 84.7, 81.0, 81.6 and 97.0 per cent. Spanish university entrance tests: all graduates sat and passed, average mark 11.01 in 2021, 12.50 in 2022, 11.60 in 2023, 12.21 in 2024 and 12.08 in 2025 out of 14. Graduating classes: 25, 28, 17, 24 and 27 pupils.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: Two buildings in Campo Olivar: C/ Pino Panera 25 and Av. de los Almendros 13. Classrooms are designed for each age: in infantil for play and exploration, in primary for group work, in secondary for focused work. There are courtyards and recreation areas, a school laboratory and a dining room with its own kitchen, where food is cooked every day. Bus routes cover Valencia and its suburbs, morning and evening.
Clubs and activities: Arts and crafts · Sports · Chess · Robotics · Dance · Guitar · Yoga · Piano
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
An English-language summer school with more than 40 years of experience: classroom activities, music, sport, games and creative workshops, all in English; this year's themed projects are stories and theatre, space and investigation, sport and teamwork. It is open both to the school's own pupils and to children from other schools, and suits those starting English from zero. Before the school year, on working days in September, the school separately runs activities from 9:00 to 16:30.
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 writes that it teaches the British curriculum in English with native-speaker and specialist teachers; it does not publish the number of teachers or their qualifications. Teachers accompany children on the school buses, and each route has a teacher in charge with a telephone number.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school publishes a child protection policy, a policy against bullying and cyberbullying, a whistle-blowing policy, a complaints protocol and a staff code of conduct. A pupil mediation team is mentioned in the news. The school does not describe security guards, video surveillance or a medical room on its site.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median74 "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.
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