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Los Hueros, Spain · est. 2025 · Private
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Montessori Nova School is a Montessori school in Los Hueros near Madrid, organised as an educational cooperative jointly owned by families and guides. In 2025 the Montessori project in which these families' children were growing up was put at risk by outside management, and the families together with the guides decided to keep it going and run it themselves: in twelve weeks they rebuilt the premises, the environments and the structure and gave the project a new name. The school calls itself the first integral educational cooperative in Madrid created jointly by families and guides, and says plainly that families here are not clients. It currently takes children from four months to twelve years in four environments - Nido, Comunidad Infantil, Casa de Niños and Taller - and announces an environment for adolescents aged 12-16 as being prepared. Groups are small: five babies in Nido, nine in Comunidad Infantil, twelve in Casa de Niños, fifteen in each of the two Taller groups. The project is bilingual, with Spanish and English part of the ordinary day; in Taller English is taught by a separate teacher. The school does not give marks. The day runs from 9:00 to 16:00, with morning and afternoon care from 8:00 and until 17:00, its own kitchen with fresh produce, emotional education sessions, a summer programme open to outside families too, and a free school for parents. The school does not publish its fees.
Key facts
Admits from
4 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Class size
from 5 babies in the youngest group to 15 pupils in the groups for ages 6-12 pupils
Summer camp
Yes, open to all
Admissions Admission has four steps: a short application through the form on the website, a visit to the school with a conversation with the director and the guide of the environment the child will join, a meeting with the admissions committee, and a joint assessment by the teaching and admissions teams, after which the family is told the decision. The school describes the conversations as a check on whether the family's expectations match the project: the questionnaire asks whether the family knows Montessori, what matters most to it in the child's education and why it came here. The admission description includes no tests and no language requirements. Children are taken from four months; the school offers an open day as the first step.
Stages and year groups Grades Nido from 4 months - Taller to age 12 (a 12-16 stage is announced). Four environments by age: Nido from four to eighteen months, up to five children; Comunidad Infantil from 18 to 36 months, up to nine; Casa de Niños from three to six years, up to twelve, in Spanish and English; Taller from six to twelve years in two groups, ages 6-9 and 9-12, with fifteen pupils each and weekly themed outings. The school announces the Adolescencia environment for ages 12-16 as being prepared, with an extension of its premises. The school day runs from 9:00 to 16:00, with care from 8:00 to 9:00 and from 16:00 to 17:00.
Address Calle Francisco de Goya 24, 28810 Los Hueros, Madrid
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
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The pedagogy of Maria Montessori: a child chooses the activity, works at their own pace with special materials, and mixed-age groups are arranged so that older children teach the younger ones. It is used most often in the nursery and primary stages.
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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
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: One site in Los Hueros with prepared Montessori environments by age: open spaces for free movement for the babies, practical life for the younger children, room for projects and research in Taller. Its own professional kitchen cooks every day from fresh seasonal produce, taking intolerances into account. The school announces the adolescent environment together with an extension of its premises; it describes no other halls or grounds.
Clubs and activities (3): Music and movement · Scientific exploration · Multisport
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp and takes children from outside as well
In summer the school opens its Summer Camp programme, both for children of its own community and for outside families who want to see how it works. The school publishes no dates, ages or price.
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 names its staff: director and Nido guide Sandra Fernandez, Nido and Comunidad Infantil guide Marta Casado, Casa de Niños guide Alba González, Taller guide Marcela Moltini, Taller English teacher Sandra Cachero and the cook. The school writes that all its guides hold official Montessori training from internationally recognised bodies and keep training in child development and neuroscience. Marta Casado is an early years educator and Montessori 0-3 guide; Alba González is a Casa de Niños guide and a primary teacher specialising in a foreign language who worked for many years in schools in England; Marcela Moltini has more than 40 years of work with children and families and is a coach and positive discipline facilitator.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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Academics and programmes (16%)60 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 data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data67 Value for money (6%) scored at the median74 "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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