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Valdemoro, Spain · est. 2004 · State
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IES Maestro Matías Bravo is a state secondary school in Valdemoro near Madrid, on the Avenida del Mar Egeo. It opened in the 2004/2005 school year, was named by a vote of the school community after Matías Bravo, a nineteenth-century teacher of Valdemoro, and now has more than 900 pupils, and with teachers and staff almost a thousand people. The school runs compulsory secondary education (ESO) and the bachillerato, and since the 2007/08 school year it has taught the international bachillerato: in its words, the ordinary LOMLOE bachillerato and the IB Diploma Programme run simultaneously. The Diploma Programme has its own course of study and a separate admission. Since its opening the school has run a plan for improving school life together and takes part in projects on sustainability, entrepreneurship, careers guidance and communications. The website and all documents for families are in Spanish, hence the language of lessons is Spanish; the school names no separate bilingual programme.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Spanish
Admissions The school admits to compulsory secondary education from 1º to 4º ESO and to the bachillerato: to the first year of the ordinary LOMLOE bachillerato and the first year of the international one, and then to the second years in the science, social sciences and humanities, and international tracks. Each year has its own page of enrolment documents, general admission follows the rules of the Community of Madrid, and for the Diploma Programme the school runs a separate admission, announced for the 2026/2027 school year. The school names no conditions for children from abroad.
Stages and year groups Grades compulsory secondary education and the bachillerato. The school names compulsory secondary education and the bachillerato, and within the bachillerato the international one, that is the IB Diploma Programme with its own course of study. On the page that was read the school gives no grid of classes by year, no ages and no number of groups.
Address Avenida del Mar Egeo, 5, 28341 Valdemoro, Madrid
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's website sits on the shared Madrid education host educa2.madrid.org, which limits the rate of requests and closes some addresses to automated reading, so the sections on premises, services and out-of-class activities are not summarised in this listing.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Facilities
The school's website sits on the shared Madrid education host educa2.madrid.org, which limits the rate of requests and closes some addresses to automated reading, so the sections on premises, services and out-of-class activities are not summarised in this listing.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Teaching staff
The school's website sits on the shared Madrid education host educa2.madrid.org, which limits the rate of requests and closes some addresses to automated reading, so the sections on premises, services and out-of-class activities are not summarised in this listing.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school's website sits on the shared Madrid education host educa2.madrid.org, which limits the rate of requests and closes some addresses to automated reading, so the sections on premises, services and out-of-class activities are not summarised in this listing.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
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%)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 data55 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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