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Pozuelo de Alarcon, Spain · est. 1968 · Private
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Kensington School is a private British school in Pozuelo de Alarcón near Madrid, one of the first British schools in Spain: it was founded in 1968 and grew from a handful of pupils into a school of 1100 pupils of more than 18 nationalities. Today it belongs to the Inspired education group. It takes children from 18 months and teaches them up to 18. Up to the baccalaureate everyone follows the English National Curriculum: the early years stage follows the British early years framework and the Inspired framework, with full immersion in English from the first day, then primary school, then secondary, where after Year 9 the pupil chooses between the English track with IGCSE examinations and the Spanish one, the 3rd and 4th years of ESO under the official Spanish curriculum. In the senior years there is a choice again: the International Baccalaureate Diploma, which the school has offered since September 2023, or the Spanish Bachillerato with preparation for the university entrance examination. Lessons are in English and Spanish, French is learnt as a third language from Year 7, with preparation for IGCSE French and DELF; the older pupils take English in the Cambridge examinations up to Proficiency level. About 90 per cent of pupils are Spanish and about 10 per cent international, roughly half of them British. On average there are 25 pupils in a class and three classes in each year group. The campus is out of town, with a gym, pitches and courts, laboratories, a library, an auditorium and its own kitchen. The school publishes its fees itself, in euros.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 360–14 777 a year
7 400–13 080 EUR
Programmes
IB · DP · Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
18 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Spanish
Class size
25 pupils on average
About the fees The school publishes its fees itself, as a separate sheet for the 2026-2027 school year, in euros per year: Toddlers and Pre-nursery 7400, Nursery 7840, Reception and Year 1: 8230, Year 2-6: 8910, Year 7-9: 9480, 3rd and 4th years of ESO 9990, Year 10-11 with IGCSE 11860, 1st and 2nd years of Bachillerato 10160, IB Diploma 13080 euros. Fees are billed by term, in September, January and April, and are collected by direct debit only. The fee includes a class photograph, a yearbook per family and a technology fee. On top of it come a one-off registration fee, lunch, the bus, school materials and insurance.
Admissions The school accepts international pupils and writes about them directly: about 10 per cent of its pupils are international, roughly half of them British, and new international pupils are accompanied by staff and classmates from the first day. The school does not require Spanish for admission: in its words, children who arrive with little or no Spanish pick it up quickly. Admission is open all year round and goes in five steps: an enquiry through the website form, by email, by telephone or in person, a visit to the school, a campus tour with the admissions team, open days in October and March, and formalising enrolment by reserving a place online. A pupil is considered enrolled once the management has admitted them and the family has handed in all documents and paid the registration fee. The school does not name entrance tests, language requirements or a list of documents on its pages.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-nursery from 18 months - Year 13 / 2nd year of Bachillerato (18 years). The early years stage from 18 months: Toddlers and Pre-nursery, Nursery and Reception, under the British early years framework with full immersion in English. Primary school follows the English National Curriculum. Secondary school is Year 7-11: up to Year 9 everyone follows the English curriculum, after it pupils choose the English track with IGCSE in Year 10-11 or the Spanish 3rd and 4th years of ESO under the official curriculum with reinforced English and French. The senior stage: the IB Diploma in Year 12-13, introduced from September 2023, or the Spanish Bachillerato in the 1st and 2nd years leading to the university entrance examination. On average there are 25 pupils in a class and three classes in each year group. The school day usually runs from 9:00 to 16:35.
Address Avenida Bularas, 2, 28224 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeCambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeInspired · school is part of the networkschool 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
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: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Inspiredschool network
Inspired Education Group is a private school group founded in 2013. The group gives different figures on its own pages - 125 schools on some, "more than 100" on others - and we quote both: choosing for a group which of its own numbers is correct is not something we do. Its schools are in Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and some of them keep their own historic names, such as King's College in Madrid and Riga. The group's site is inspirededu.com.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Average IB score
35.5 (world average 30.88)
Exam results The school's 2026 results: IB Diploma, an average score of 35.5, 1.5 points higher than the previous year, highest 41. The PAU university entrance examination, 100 per cent passed, an average mark of 8.3 out of 10, 63 per cent scored above 11 out of 14, highest 13.8 out of 14. IGCSE, 56 per cent of grades A* and A, 81 per cent A* - B. In French DELF B1 and B2 almost everyone passes, about 100 per cent. Since 2001 pupils of the school have obtained 1025 Cambridge Advanced certificates and 590 Proficiency.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: The campus is out of town, in Pozuelo de Alarcón. Sport: an indoor gym, a psychomotor room, a football pitch, a volleyball court, a basketball court. Learning: laboratories, a library, an auditorium, music and art rooms, classrooms equipped for each stage. Playgrounds and a separate play area for the youngest. The school's own kitchen cooks every day, the weekly menu is drawn up by a nutritionist, and there are menus for coeliac, vegetarian and diabetic pupils and for intolerances. Eight bus routes serve districts of Madrid, and staff accompany the children on the bus. The school does not state the campus area; the website has a virtual tour.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The 2026 summer camps run on the campus in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 16:00, and are divided by age: Mini Campers for 1-2 years and Junior Campers for 3-6 years from 26 June to 31 July, Primary Campers for 7-10 years and Secondary Campers for 11-16 years from 29 June to 31 July. The little ones have sensory activities, planting, singing and dancing, cooking; the pre-schoolers storytelling, crafts, music and weekly outings; the younger schoolchildren multisport, rhythmic gymnastics, computing, drama and excursions; the older ones kayaking, rock climbing, padel, roller hockey and tournaments. The price is 330 euros a week with lunch, 360 euros with early arrival and late pick-up. For 16-18 year olds there is a two-week finance course with the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles from 22 June to 3 July, 450 euros with lunch. The school has no residential camp; the Inspired group separately offers camps abroad.
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 sizein the key facts above
All teachers, the school says, are qualified, and many of them are native speakers; experienced native English-speaking teachers work in the early years stage. The school does not state the number of teachers. It gives ratios by stage: for the early years the school writes in one place of one adult to five children and in another of one to eight in Pre-nursery; from Nursery to Year 2 about 13 children to a teacher with an assistant; in Year 10-13 core subjects are taught in groups of 12-15, and French from Year 8 to Year 13 is split into 5 groups of 10-12 pupils thanks to native-speaking assistants. Twelve teaching assistants help the younger pupils, and additional support teachers work in Year 1-9.
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school calls pupil safety a priority and keeps a clear procedure for monitoring attendance. The pastoral service is led by heads who link form tutors, heads of department and school psychologists; the tutor meets the pupils every day and is the first to notice difficulties. For parents the school publishes the Inspired group code of conduct, and for pupils the rules of living together. The school does not name a written child protection policy, video surveillance, security guards, an access control system or a medical worker on its pages.
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Academics and programmes (16%)84 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data90 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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