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Pozuelo de Alarcon, Spain · Private
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Retamar is a private international school in Pozuelo de Alarcón outside Madrid, a corporate work of Opus Dei, with almost sixty years of experience. The IB Diploma Programme is no novelty here: the school obtained affiliation in 1978, the first cohort of diploma holders came in 1980, and in 2025: 27 of its pupils obtained the diploma - the school publishes this chronology itself. Its provision is broad: Infantil, Primaria, Secundaria, the baccalaureate and vocational education. The guidance department is a large one and is named by number - seven psycho-pedagogues and specialist teachers - and it works in three directions: with families (personal, academic and vocational guidance of their children, a parents' school), with teachers (methodological support, continuing training programmes, help with pupils who have specific needs) and with pupils (guidance through tests and activities, identification of high ability and enrichment programmes, support with difficulties). The extracurricular side is sporting and varied: football, judo, basketball, drama, roller hockey, music, athletics and supervised study. The main thing a parent needs to know: the IB Diploma is an upper-stage choice on top of the national baccalaureate, and the school has been awarding it for longer than almost any other in Spain.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 982–8 868 a year
441–785 EUR a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Spanish
About the fees The school publishes its fees for the 2026-2027 academic year in a price sheet, in euros per month, in ten payments from September to June: nursery - 441; grades 1 and 2 of primary - 556; grades 3 and 4 - 573; grades 5 and 6 - 557; ESO years 1 and 2 - 619; ESO years 3 and 4 - 676; ESO year 4 with IB preparation (Pre-IB) - 689; the first year of the bachillerato - 701; the second - 785 euros a month; the IB programme carries a supplement of 100 euros. Families with three children at the school are charged no more than 2.6 tuition fees, with four children together with Orvalle no more than 3, together with Alegra no more than 3.5; each year there is a call for Retamar + Familia grants with the participation of the Retamar foundation.
Admissions Admission goes in six steps: a visit to the school, a short application form for a place - separate for nursery and for primary, ESO and the bachillerato, - a personal interview with the family, confirmation by the family that it wishes to continue, with the interviewer asking for additional information if needed, then a few months before the start of classes a digital letter of admission with the documents for the reservation and enrolment and the Retamar In Advance programmes for future families to get to know each other, and finally a welcome meeting where the letter is handed over in person and the family submits the documents. The school names no entrance tests, language requirements or deadlines on its admission page; it writes nothing separately about children from other countries.
Stages and year groups Grades Educación Infantil (from age 3) - baccalaureate, plus vocational education. The stages run right through: Educación Infantil, Primaria, Secundaria, the baccalaureate and vocational education (Formación Profesional). The school awards the IB Diploma at the upper stage. It names no timetable on the pages read.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, 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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19). 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. 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
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 school's own facilities page speaks of modern infrastructure adapted to each stage and of spaces that are «modernos, equipados, funcionales y seguros», but gives no list of features in text.
Clubs and activities (8): Football · Judo · Basketball · Theatre · Roller hockey · Music · Athletics · Supervised study
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 describes its guidance department by number: seven psycho-pedagogues and specialist teachers. It publishes no total number of teachers, no pupil-teacher ratio and no class sizes.
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
A guidance department of seven psycho-pedagogues and specialist teachers works with families, teachers and pupils: personal, academic and vocational guidance, identification of pupils of high ability and enrichment programmes, and support with learning difficulties.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)95 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 data78 "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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