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Alcobendas, Spain · est. 1967 · Private
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A private British school in La Moraleja in the north of Madrid, non-denominational, for boys and girls of all nationalities from two to eighteen. It was founded in September 1967, the primary school opened in 1987, and since 1990 the whole school has been in La Moraleja. Teaching follows the national curriculum of England and is divided into three schools: Pre-Prep from Pre-Nursery to Year 3, Prep from Year 4 to Year 8 and Senior School from Year 9 to Year 13, with IGCSE and A-Level. In June 2025, 57 per cent of A-Level grades were A*-A, at IGCSE 67 per cent A*-A. Of the class of 2025, 83 per cent of those going to the UK entered the top ten universities in the country, including Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL and LSE; in the USA graduates study at Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania and Brown, in Spain at ICADE, IE and ICAI.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Admissions The school writes that it admits boys and girls of all nationalities from the age of two. It gives no admission conditions, entrance tests or language requirements on the pages open for reading.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-Nursery (age 2) - Year 13. Three schools: Pre-Prep from Pre-Nursery to Year 3, Prep from Year 4 to Year 8, Senior School from Year 9 to Year 13. Teaching under the national curriculum of England, with IGCSE and A-Level in the senior school.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
BSO · accreditationCambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · 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
BSOBritish government inspection of schools overseas
A scheme of the UK Department for Education: a school abroad is inspected against the standards for independent schools in England, including safeguarding and the standards for boarding. The inspections are done by independent inspectorates approved by the department, and the inspectorates themselves are monitored annually by Ofsted. The reports are published in full on the government website.
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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), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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Exam results June 2025: 57 per cent of A-Level grades A*-A, 67 per cent of IGCSE grades A*-A. The school compares them with 48 per cent at independent schools in England.
Where leavers go: University of Oxford · University of Cambridge · Imperial College London · University College London · London School of Economics · Harvard University · Columbia University · University of Pennsylvania · Brown University · ICADE · IE University · ICAI
Of the class of 2025, 83 per cent of those entering UK universities study at the top ten by the Sunday Times Good University Guide ranking; some graduates stayed in Spain, and some continued their studies in France and Ireland.
Facilities
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Teaching staff
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Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median57 "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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