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A small British international school in central Madrid, in the El Viso neighbourhood of the Salamanca district. The founder and head of the school is Linda Barbour; the school calls itself inclusive and writes that it takes pupils of differing abilities and builds support for children with special educational needs into its academic programme through a multidisciplinary team of specialists. Children from 3 to 16 years study here: the early years follow the British EYFS, primary school follows the International Primary Curriculum and the English national curriculum, the middle years, Years 7-9, follow the International Middle Years Curriculum with STEAM and coding, and in Years 10-11 pupils take Cambridge IGCSE. Lessons are in English: all the programme pages are written that way, phonics follows Read Write Inc., and Spanish is a compulsory IGCSE subject; the school itself describes its teaching as bilingual and bicultural. Classes are small, and in primary school children are divided into groups of 4-10 by reading level. The school is piloting the Arrowsmith cognitive programme, and pupils work on Chromebooks in Google Classroom. The school day runs from 9:00 to 16:15, with morning supervision from 8:00 and after-school care until 17:15. The school is nut-free because of allergies, and lunches are cooked by the family restaurant El Hood. There is a uniform, a summer school for children aged 4-13 and after-school clubs open also to children from other schools. The school publishes its fees itself, in euros.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $7 174–20 053 a year
6 350–17 750 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Class size
small classes; in primary school reading groups of 4-10 children
About the fees The school publishes its fees for the 2026-2027 school year in a separate document, monthly and annual, and all educational resources are covered by the fees. Reception (ages 3-4): 635 euros a month or 6350 a year; Year 1: 765 and 7650; Year 2: 1180 and 11800; Year 3: 1315 and 13150; Year 4: 1375 and 13750; Years 5-6: 1570 and 15700; Years 7-8: 1650 and 16500; Year 9: 1705 and 17050; Years 10-11: 1775 and 17750.
Admissions Admission is year-round (rolling admissions): the school considers applications and makes offers throughout the school year. The procedure: an initial enquiry with the child's date of birth and desired starting date, a visit to the school, an application with school reports for the previous year, an assessment of the child to build an individual programme of study, trial days where necessary, a meeting of the parents with the head or deputy head of primary, and the decision on a place, possibly with conditions. The school does not name requirements regarding citizenship, language or residence documents.
Stages and year groups Grades Reception (age 3) to Year 11. Early years under EYFS (Nursery and Reception), Key Stages 1-2 under the 2014 English national curriculum and the International Primary Curriculum, Years 7-9 under the International Middle Years Curriculum, Years 10-11 Cambridge IGCSE, usually nine or ten subjects: English language, mathematics, Spanish and optional subjects, among them Enterprise and Global Perspectives. There is no sixth form: the school writes that it has links with A-Level and IB centres and helps families choose where to study after IGCSE.
Address Calle Serrano 158, 28002 Madrid
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · 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
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 →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
Also on site: Playground
Campus: Two campuses in the El Viso neighbourhood of the Salamanca district, both close to the República Argentina metro station (line 6) and the stops of buses 51, 7, 16, 19, C1 and C2. The building on Calle Serrano, fully refurbished, is surrounded by a walled play area; the second campus is a house in El Viso a five-minute walk away, where older pupils study in a college-like atmosphere. The new primary building is at Calle Alfonso Rodríguez Santamaría 3. Classrooms have projectors, screens and sound systems, and pupils have Chromebooks and tablets.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
In summer the school runs a summer school for children aged 4 to 13 in Madrid; dates and prices are not given on the site.
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
The school does not publish its staff list or the number of teachers. It names the founder and head of school Linda Barbour and the director Cliff Seabrook; the school writes about small classes, a high teacher-to-pupil ratio and a multidisciplinary team of specialists who provide academic, emotional and communication support for each child.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school publishes a Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, as well as policies on parent support, homework and English. Children are left at the gate and must not be left unsupervised outside it; the school is nut-free because of allergies. The school does not describe security guards, video surveillance or a medical room on its site.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 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 data60 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 "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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