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Madrid, Spain · est. 1954 · Private
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Mater Salvatoris is a private Catholic girls' school in Aravaca, in north-west Madrid; it is run by the sisters of the Compañía del Salvador. The school was founded by Madre María Félix in 1954, moved to Aravaca in 1965, and in 1996 the Colegio Mayor Mater Salvatoris university residence opened beside it. The stages run all the way through: Infantil, Primaria, ESO and Bachillerato, and since 2017 the school has also run the IB Diploma Programme for girls aged 16-18. Lessons are taught in Spanish, but English takes a large place: it is taught every day at every stage, natural science in grades 1-3 of primary school is in English, Drama and Culture on the Stage are taught entirely in English, and pupils prepare for Cambridge examinations from KET in grade 6 to CPE in the 2nd year of the Bachillerato; French starts in ESO in small groups and leads to DELF up to level B2. The school is a Cambridge examination centre. Its alumnae, it says, study at Georgetown, Columbia, LSE, King's College London and other British and American universities. Sport is strong: a covered complex of 2300 square metres, three gymnasiums, and teams in basketball, volleyball, athletics, gymnastics, skating and field hockey in municipal and Catholic school leagues. In summer the school runs a day camp for the youngest, a residential camp in English, mountain trips and a sports campus, and in June it sends girls in grades 5-6 to Ireland for a month, to host families and a local Catholic school. The main thing for a parent: this is a girls' school, and there are almost no new places for the 2027-2028 school year - admission is open only to the first year of Infantil.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions The school admits girls only and organises admission by year of birth. For the 2027-2028 school year new families could submit a form for a place in the first year of Infantil for girls born in 2024 from 1 to 30 September 2026 by e-mail to admisiones@matersalvatoris.org; the selection itself runs from October to December 2026. There will be no new places in the second year of Infantil (born in 2022) or the third (born in 2021), and admission to Primaria and ESO does not open at all for that year. The school says nothing about foreign pupils, documents or tests.
Stages and year groups Grades Infantil (from age 3) - 2nd year of the Bachillerato. The school runs every stage: Infantil, Primaria, ESO and Bachillerato. The IB Diploma Programme lasts two years for girls aged 16-18; the external IB examinations run from March to May of the second year, and in the 4th year of ESO girls can take advanced mathematics and philosophy in the IB manner in advance. The school does not name its class sizes.
Address Calle Valdesquí 4, 28023 Aravaca, 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
Where leavers go: Georgetown University · Columbia University · Boston University · Imperial College London · London School of Economics and Political Science · University of Warwick · Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London · University of Bath · University of Manchester · King's College London · University of Exeter · Lancaster University
and others, 13 universities in the school's list in allThe school names British and American universities where its alumnae have studied and links this to the Cambridge Advanced certificate taken in the upper stage. It gives no share of those admitted and no Spanish universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school stands in Aravaca, surrounded by nature. A covered sports complex of 2300 square metres holds three basketball courts, three volleyball courts and one handball court and two multi-purpose halls; besides it there are three gymnasiums and three rhythm and psychomotor rooms. Outdoors there are four basketball, three volleyball, two handball and two tennis courts. Food is cooked every day on site from fresh produce, the menu is drawn up with nutritionists and comes in nine kinds, including gluten-free, lactose-free, egg-free, fish-free and nut-free. School transport is run by the company ALSA: 16 routes in the morning and 18 in the afternoon across a large part of Madrid.
Clubs and activities (22): Classical ballet · Judo · Figure skating · Football · Basketball · Tennis · Volleyball · Athletics · Rhythmic gymnastics · Field hockey · Discovering Music (early years) · Flamenco · Supervised study · Drama (in English) · Robotics and FIRST LEGO League Jr. · Beginner instrument lessons · Painting · French · Crafts · Digital illustration · Debating · Music school
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
Summer programme away from campus:
The school has six summer programmes, combining English, sport, creative work and education in values. Day Camp runs at the school itself for children from the first year of Infantil to grade 3. Mater Camp is a residential camp in English in July, in the countryside, for grades 3-5. Montañeras are mountain trips at three levels: for grade 6 and the 1st year of ESO, for the 2nd-3rd years of ESO and for the 4th year of ESO and the Bachillerato. Campus Multideporte is sports training in athletics, basketball, rhythmic gymnastics, field hockey, skating, volleyball and football. Misión de Verano is a summer mission for the 4th year of ESO, the Bachillerato and alumnae. Separately, in June girls in grades 5-6 spend a month with Irish families in Tullamore and Buncrana and attend a local Catholic school. The school gives no dates or prices on its pages; they are in a separate document.
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 school does not publish the number of its teachers. It describes how the work is organised: each class has its own tutor, responsible for the girl's development as a person; the English department has native-speaking and bilingual teachers of high qualification; there is a guidance department, a specialist for individual lessons with girls who have difficulties, and a speech therapist in Infantil.
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 names a guidance department (Departamento de Orientación) that helps girls overcome difficulties, a specialist for individual lessons and a speech therapist in Infantil, as well as the personal accompaniment of each girl by her tutor. The school names no psychologist, medical room, security, video surveillance or written child protection policy.
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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 data70 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 data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median67 "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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