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Colmenarejo, Spain · Private
Illustration · Colmenarejo
Pangea Escuela Viva is the Madrid campus of the Pangea project, a Montessori school in a natural setting in Colmenarejo, on Calle Santiago Apóstol. The project has two campuses: the Madrid one in Colmenarejo for children from 3 to 16 and Pangea Active School in A Coruña for children from 3 to 12; the registry entry that brought the school into the ranking refers to the Madrid one. The school says it is authorised in Spain as an approved foreign educational centre. For admission in 2026/2027 it is opening Infantil and Primaria on both campuses and Secundaria in Madrid only. The school calls its education bilingual: it employs native and bilingual English speakers so that English is present naturally, alongside Spanish. The school lists the foundations of the project itself: integral education, education on the child's own demand, the Montessori method, reduced ratios, mixed-age groups, emotional care as the pillar of the project, and nature as an extension of the classrooms; the Madrid campus has 4000 square metres of outdoor space. The adult here is an accompanist whose work is to follow the child's interests, to listen and to observe, and common questions are settled by the assembly. In summer the school runs a camp on both campuses, and during the year courses for teachers and parents. The school does not state its fees on its site.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions Admission for the 2026/2027 school year is open: to Infantil and Primaria on both campuses and to Secundaria in Madrid only. Families can get to know the school at open days or on a personal visit, and apply through the Madrid campus form, by phone or by email. The school names no steps after the application, no tests, no documents and no conditions for children from other countries.
Stages and year groups Grades Infantil from age 3 - Secundaria to age 16. The Madrid campus takes children from 3 to 16: Infantil, Primaria and Secundaria; A Coruña from 3 to 12, without a secondary school. For admission in 2026/2027 the school is opening Infantil and Primaria on both campuses and Secundaria in Madrid only. Groups are mixed-age; the school publishes no daily timetable and no group size.
Address Santiago Apóstol, 9, Colmenarejo, Madrid
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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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
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The campus in Colmenarejo has 4000 square metres of outdoor space; the school calls nature and its outdoor areas an extension of the classrooms, and its indoor and outdoor spaces a prepared Montessori environment for mixed-age groups. The project's second campus in A Coruña, in the A Zapateira district, has 11000 square metres of outdoor space.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
A summer camp in a natural setting runs on both campuses - in A Coruña and in Madrid.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: native and bilingual English speakers
The school calls its adults accompanists: their work is to follow the child's interests, to listen and to observe. For its bilingual education, the school says, it employs native and bilingual English speakers. It calls its ratios reduced but publishes no numbers, names or qualifications of the accompanists.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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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 data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 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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