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Pinto, Spain · Private
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Mirasur School is a private school in Pinto outside Madrid, part of the Cognita group. It is an IB World School and at the same time a school with the national curriculum: its own page says the IB programme is built into its project «en coherencia con nuestro currículo en español», that is on top of the Spanish curriculum rather than instead of it. Teaching runs from Infantil to the baccalaureate, and the school describes Infantil through the move «from home to school»: personal, adapted to each child, with a methodology of experience and play and with lessons in the open air. The sporting side is a large one - sports schools of its own on grounds of more than 15000 square metres; beyond sport the extracurricular programme is laid out along academic, sporting, cultural and artistic lines. The main thing a parent needs to know: the school is private, the international programme is built into the Spanish curriculum, and the school publishes its own fees - from 320 to 685 euros a month.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $3 615–7 739 a year
320–685 EUR a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Spanish
Summer camp
Yes, open to all
About the fees The school publishes its fees monthly on its fees page. Tuition is paid in ten instalments from September to June, and in the Escuela Infantil (ages 1-3) in eleven, from September to July. Per month: Escuela Infantil from 9:00 to 13:00 - 320 euros, from 9:00 to 16:00 - 625; Educación Infantil (ages 3-6) - 500; primary - 525; ESO - 640; first year of bachillerato - 665, second - 685 euros. The fee includes school materials, an iPad or Chromebook from the third year of primary to the second year of bachillerato, and educational outings during school hours. There is a tuition discount from the second child and a discount for paying in advance before the start of the year.
Admissions The school sets out admission in steps. The family contacts the admissions officer to talk and check whether there is a place in the relevant class; then comes a private tour or an open day, meeting the teachers and the head; once the family has decided, it formally applies for a place; the child has a personal interview, depending on age with a check of level in school subjects. If there is a place, the school sends an enrolment form, asks for documents and the child's report, and the place is secured by paying the registration fee by direct debit; if there is none, the child goes on a waiting list. Children are taken from 12 months, in the Escuela Infantil. The school does not write about foreigners or citizenship on its admission page.
Stages and year groups The stages run from Educación Infantil through Primaria and Secundaria to the baccalaureate. The school names no entry age and no timetable on the pages read.
Address Calle Pablo Gargallo, 1
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP · authorised programmeCognita · 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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible.
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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.
Cognitaschool network
A group of schools launched in 2004; the legal entity in the footer of the site is Cognita Holdings Limited. The site names 90 schools in 21 countries, 14 curricula and more than 22,000 staff, and the numbers agree on all the pages read. The section on a school joining the group speaks of working with the owners of schools and of integrating the school, but does not say outright whether the school passes into ownership; the word "franchise" does not appear on the site. The majority owner of Cognita itself is named as Jacobs Holding AG.
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
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: Sports ground or field
Campus: A site in Pinto with sports schools of its own on grounds of more than 15000 square metres. The Infantil stage has its own classrooms and open spaces where children work outdoors and in contact with nature. The school gives no list of its other features.
Clubs and activities (4): Sports schools · Academic activities · Cultural activities · Art classes
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp and takes children from outside as well
In summer the school runs an urban Summer School camp in Pinto - in 2026 from 22 June to 31 July, for children from 3 to 12, both its own pupils and children from outside. There are two programmes to choose from: Summer Arts for ages 3-6 and Summer Sports for ages 7-12 - creative and multi-sport activities and games. The page gives no price; the school provides it in its catalogue and through the camp email.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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 room
·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
A medical service works at the school in the mornings: the school doctor handles day-to-day incidents, monitors children with particular conditions such as diabetes, carries out annual check-ups and gives talks in classes and at the parents' school. The deputy head is also named child protection coordinator. The school blog has an article on preventing bullying. The school's pages name no security staff and publish no written child protection policy.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data70 "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.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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