← Back to homeI.E.S. Padre Manjón
Granada, Spain · est. 1965 · State
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I.E.S. Padre Manjón is a state secondary school in Granada, and it was born in an unusual way: on 2 December 1965 it was created by decree as an experimental national secondary school attached to the teacher training college, with the stated purpose of "trying out new educational and didactic plans and methods and the pedagogical preparation of teaching staff". The minister of education opened it on 3 October 1966, and it was the city's first mixed-sex institute. In its first years it was run by a governing council made up of the university rector, the director of the teacher training college, the chief inspector and the head of the institute. The school has run the IB Diploma Programme since the 2020-2021 school year. An important point about language: in Spanish state centres the IB diploma is combined with the national bachillerato, and here every subject of the programme is taught in Spanish except the foreign language subjects, with the school requiring pupils to study at least two languages. Beyond the school stages the institute runs vocational cycles - microcomputer systems, administrative management, administration and finance, a MikroTik course - holds an Erasmus accreditation for vocational education and calls itself a "learning community". It has its own library with an online catalogue, sports activities, school exchanges and artistic ensembles.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Spanish
Admissions Admission runs through the general Andalusian enrolment procedure, on the regional education portal or at the school itself. For ESO, the bachillerato and the IB Diploma Programme applications are made from 1 to 31 March and enrolment runs from 1 to 10 July; for vocational cycles applications are taken from 15 to 30 June. The school announces its places: 110 in the first year of ESO, 11 in the first year of the humanities bachillerato, 35 in the first year of the IB Diploma Programme, 30 in the administrative management cycle, 20 in the microcomputer systems cycle and 60 in the administration and finance cycle. The Diploma Programme, the school says, is intended for students aged 16-19. The school publishes no IB selection criteria, no language requirements and no list of documents.
Stages and year groups Grades 1º ESO - 2º Bachillerato, plus vocational cycles. Compulsory secondary education; a bachillerato - both the ordinary one and the two-year IB Diploma Programme alongside the Spanish one; and vocational cycles: microcomputer systems, administrative management, administration and finance. In the Diploma Programme one subject is offered from each group, the group 6 subject being replaced by one from groups 1 to 4, and at least three subjects are taken at higher level; the compulsory core is CAS, theory of knowledge and the extended essay.
Address Gonzalo Gallas s/n, 18003 Granada
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 hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The institute's building on Calle Gonzalo Gallas in Granada. Of its facilities the site names a library with an online catalogue and devotes a page to the thermal comfort and air conditioning of the building; the school publishes no full account of its rooms.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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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 data60 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.
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