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San Sebastian de Los Reyes, Spain · est. 2002 · State
Illustration · San Sebastian de Los Reyes
IES Atenea has been running in San Sebastián de los Reyes since the 2002/03 school year and calls itself one of the town's five state centres. It is a large school - more than nine hundred pupils - and it takes on three strands at once: compulsory secondary education, the bachillerato and basic vocational education. The school sets out its dates in order: since 2016 it has belonged to Madrid's network of bilingual centres, since 2019 to the network of institutes promoting physical activity and sport, and since 2023 it has been authorised for the IB Diploma Programme. The diploma is therefore young here, and the school does not yet have many cohorts of its own. Of its rooms it names an assembly hall, computer rooms, a library, lockers for pupils and a virtual classroom. A distinctive touch is "Casas Mitológicas", a competition between groups of pupils organised as mythological houses, and alongside it run a yearbook, "Atenea a Escena", "Atención Plena", a school garden and Erasmus+.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Spanish
Languages taught
English, French
Admissions Admission to ESO and the bachillerato follows the general procedure of the Community of Madrid: the school posts the admission calendar, the list of vacancies and the primary schools assigned to it, and warns that the lack of vacancies in a given year does not mean there will be no places - they come free through transfers. Leavers of the assigned schools CEIP Miguel Delibes and Nuestra Señora de Valvanera enrol in ESO year 1 on separate days at the end of June; everyone else from 22 June to 3 July, and 3 July is the last day of enrolment for all years. For the IB Diploma Programme, which the school has run since the 2023-2024 school year, admission follows a separate admission policy, and the school publishes a provisional list of those admitted. The school describes no separate procedure for children from other countries and no requirements for documents or language.
Stages and year groups Grades 1º ESO - 2º Bachillerato, plus basic vocational education. The school runs the compulsory secondary stage, the bachillerato and F.P. Básica - basic vocational education. Since 2016 it has belonged to the Madrid network of bilingual centres, and since the 2023-2024 school year it has run the IB Diploma Programme in three profiles - science and technology, biomedical science and social sciences; language and literature and English are taken at higher level by everyone, plus the extended essay, theory of knowledge and CAS. The school gives no year-by-year grid of classes and no number of groups.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeschool 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: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
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 hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Of its rooms the school names an assembly hall, computer rooms, a library and lockers for pupils, and of its own additions a virtual classroom and a school garden. The site lists neither the full set of rooms nor any areas.
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 staff is published by department, sixteen of them: biology and geology, drawing and fine art, economics, physical education, philosophy, physics and chemistry, French, geography and history, English, Latin with Greek, language and literature, mathematics, music, careers guidance, religion and technology. The school publishes no qualifications, no pupil-teacher ratio and no class sizes.
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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a "Coordinación de Bienestar" - a wellbeing coordination with its own opening hours - and a careers guidance department. On the page that was read it names no psychologist, medical room or security staff.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 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 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.
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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