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Logrono, Spain · est. 1837 · State
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IES Práxedes Mateo Sagasta is a state secondary school in Logroño with almost two centuries of history: by the account it publishes itself, its origin is placed in 1837, when the "Instituto Riojano" was created in the city with money from the provincial council and the town hall, and 1837-38 is taken as its first school year. What the school is looked at for: it has run the IB Diploma Programme since the 1986-1987 school year, among the first in Spain, and all that time free of charge to the family. The costs a pupil would normally pay - the IB organisation fee, the examinations, the diploma issuing rights and other academic charges - are covered each year by the town hall of Logroño and the education department of La Rioja. Any pupil from Logroño or La Rioja who holds the compulsory secondary education certificate may apply, and under the department's rules so may pupils from anywhere in Spain; over the years the programme has taught children from Navarre, the Basque Country, Catalonia, Andalusia and Aragon. Since 2007 the IB diploma by itself gives entry to a Spanish university through the UNED, without the general PAU examination, though the teaching staff still advise sitting it. Besides the school stages the institute runs an adult bachillerato, evening and by distance, and vocational cycles in physical education and sport; it has a historic 8200-square-metre building with a library of about 30000 volumes, a school radio station, Radio Sagasta, and the ATECA and "Entrepreneurship Classroom" projects.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Spanish
Languages taught
English, French, German
About the fees The IB Diploma Programme here has been free from the very start, from the 1986-1987 school year, and the school explains why: the per-pupil fee to the IB organisation, the running of the examinations, the diploma issuing rights and other academic and administrative charges are paid each year by the town hall of Logroño and the education department of La Rioja. The institute states no tuition fee of its own at all - it is a state school.
Admissions Any pupil from Logroño and La Rioja who holds the compulsory secondary education certificate may apply for the IB Diploma Programme, and under the current rules so may a pupil from any region of Spain, subject to the requirements of the La Rioja education department; if places run short, selection follows the criteria the department sets for bachillerato. The school presents the programme in April. Admission to ESO and the ordinary bachillerato follows the regional procedure, and the school posts the application forms on its site. The school admits pupils from abroad: it runs a programme for pupils who join the Spanish education system late with serious gaps in the language, and a programme supporting foreign language and culture. Joining German from the second year onwards requires a placement test by the department.
Stages and year groups Grades 1º ESO - 2º Bachillerato, an adult bachillerato and vocational cycles. Compulsory secondary education (ESO) with an optional bilingual English section - some subjects are taught in English - and German as a subject from the first year, the only one among the state schools of La Rioja; bachillerato - the ordinary one and the IB Diploma Programme, which pupils take alongside the Spanish bachillerato; vocational cycles in physical activity and sport; and adult bachillerato, evening and distance. The school teaches the IB programme in Spanish and offers a bilingual diploma with English or French.
Address Glorieta del Dr. Zubía, s/n, 26003 Logroño, La Rioja
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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: A late nineteenth-century historic building on the Glorieta del Dr. Zubía in the centre of Logroño, where the institute has stood since 1900; after a renovation, during which the school worked from September 2016 to February 2023 in temporary buildings on Calle Luis de Ulloa, it has 8200 square metres around two symmetrical inner courtyards. The ground floor has 17 classrooms, a gym, three computer rooms, a technology workshop, the library, a music room and a café; the first floor has 21 classrooms, physics, chemistry and natural science laboratories, an auditorium, an aula magna and a drawing room; the second floor has the departments and three more classrooms. The library holds about 30000 volumes, from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books to digital editions; the school has museum collections of natural history and historic physics and chemistry instruments. There is a school radio, "Radio Sagasta", and an Aula de Emprendimiento.
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 list is published by department: German, natural sciences, art, physical education, economics, philosophy, physics and chemistry, geography and history, French, Greek, English, Latin, language and literature, mathematics, music, guidance, technology, religion and the vocational family of physical activity and sport; the guidance department lists eleven people by name. The IB programme coordinator is Gloria del Carmen Bernad Pérez. The school does not publish qualifications, the pupil-teacher ratio or class sizes.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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 data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "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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