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Madrid, Spain · Private
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An international Montessori school in Madrid, on Avenida de la Victoria, for children from birth to 12. The school calls itself American and writes that the Middle States Association (MSA-CESS) has accepted it as a candidate for accreditation. Teaching is based on Montessori pedagogy with prepared environments and mixed-age groups, the artistic strand follows Reggio Emilia principles, and the school relies on positive discipline. Teaching is bilingual: English and Spanish are heard throughout the day, and the school calls English the main language of instruction within its American project. The school day runs from 9:00 to 16:00, with early drop-off from 8:00 and pick-up until 17:00. For parents the school runs a parents' school with talks and workshops.
Key facts
Admits from
a few months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Spanish
Admissions The school describes admission in five steps: the family writes through the form, by phone or by email, then comes a conversation, a visit to the school, a joint assessment of the child's stage of development and of place availability and, if both sides agree, a place reservation. The school holds individual visits and open days. Whom exactly the school accepts and whether there are conditions for foreigners is not stated on the site.
Stages and year groups Grades Nido (age 0) - Taller / Primaria (age 12). Four Montessori stages: Nido for children under one, Comunidad Infantil from 1 to 3, Casa de Niños from 3 to 6 and Taller / Primaria from 6 to 12, where work is built around research projects, language, mathematics with concrete materials and cosmic education with history, geography, science, art and music.
Address Avenida de la Victoria 73, 28023 Madrid
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
MSA · candidateschool 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
MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
One of the oldest American accreditations, working since 1887 in more than a hundred countries and linked to the Office of Overseas Schools of the US State Department. It judges the school as an institution across twelve areas, including finances, governance, premises and student support.
What the badge means for this school. The school is a candidate for accreditation by this organisation: the route has been started but not completed. Candidacy speaks of an application made and a file accepted for consideration, not of the outcome of an inspection, and the organisations themselves usually require schools to say that it does not guarantee accreditation. The candidacy is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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Facilities
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Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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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%)65 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.
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