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Alcobendas, Spain · Private
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THP International School is a small private school in La Moraleja, on Avenida de Bruselas in Alcobendas outside Madrid, and its defining feature is group size: the school promises a maximum of eight students per teacher and up to 10 per cent of teaching time as one-to-one lessons, more than 250 hours of individual work per student across the course. There are two routes: the American system and the IB Diploma Programme, and the school builds its whole admissions process around the Diploma. It belongs to an educational group together with LMI College and the support academy TutorASAP, which has operated since 1997 and provides catch-up teaching, intensive courses and examination preparation for students from other schools. More than 25 nationalities are represented in its community. The school describes its La Moraleja campus as modern classrooms and laboratories, spaces for creativity, sports and wellbeing facilities and a safe international environment. The extracurricular side is built on outings and partnerships: students have taken part in programmes with Real Madrid, PlayStation and the MUNCYT science museum, and the school runs academic and leisure trips throughout the year, including cultural ones - to Berlin, for example. A university guidance service works with the seniors: it maintains an individual academic plan, selects a subject combination to match the student's university goal and prepares them for Spanish and foreign universities.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
English
Admissions The school builds admission around the Diploma Programme and makes it deliberately non-standard: it says it does not believe in standardised education, and therefore not in standardised admission either. There are five steps: a first conversation with the family and the student about their needs, motivation and goals; an academic review looking at reports, academic history, language level and readiness for the Diploma; a personal interview about the student's profile, adaptation, interests and plans; the drawing up of an individual academic plan, that is a subject combination and a form of support matched to university goals; and finally confirmation of the place and joining the school community. The school says plainly whom it is looking for: families who want a demanding, personalised international education, learning in small groups, close academic and personal monitoring and preparation for Spanish and international universities. Places are few: the maximum of eight students per teacher is deliberate. The school does take foreign students: by its own account its community includes students of more than 25 nationalities, and the academic review looks at language level among other things. The school's admissions pages name no special requirements for foreign students - no documents, no homologation, no knowledge of Spanish.
Stages and year groups Grades the IB Diploma Programme and the American system at the pre-university stage. The school runs two systems - the American one and the IB Diploma Programme - and its whole admissions process is built around the Diploma. One-to-one lessons sit inside the timetable: up to 10 per cent of teaching time, more than 250 hours of individual work across the course. Groups are small: on /acerca-de-thp/ the school promises a maximum of 10 students per teacher, on /admisiones-2026/ a maximum of 8. The age range is not stated on the site: the enquiry form offers student ages from 14 to 18 and over.
Address Av. de Bruselas 31, 28108 Alcobendas, Madrid
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeMSA · accreditationschool 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: DP (ages 16-19). 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
One of the oldest American accreditations, working since 1887 in more than a hundred countries and linked to the Office of Overseas Schools of the US State Department. It judges the school as an institution across twelve areas, including finances, governance, premises and student support.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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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
✓Laboratories
·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: A single site in La Moraleja, at Avenida de Bruselas 31 in Alcobendas. The school describes it as modern classrooms and laboratories, spaces for creativity and innovation, sports and wellbeing facilities and a safe, environmentally respectful international setting. The rooms are not listed in any more detail.
Clubs and activities (6): Cultural and sports trips · Programmes with Real Madrid · Programmes with PlayStation · Activities at the MUNCYT science museum · International academic trips · Leisure trips
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 publishes no staff list, neither by name nor by number, but it does state a ratio: a maximum of 8 students per teacher on the admissions page and a maximum of 10 on the about page. It describes its model as genuine relationships, continuous monitoring and personal attention; separately it mentions a university guidance service which maintains each student's individual academic plan.
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%)82 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%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 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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