Guadalaviar School
Colegio Guadalaviar | |
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Coordinates | 39°28′30″N 0°21′20″W / 39.4751°N 0.3556°WCoordinates: 39°28′30″N 0°21′20″W / 39.4751°N 0.3556°W |
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Established | 1959 |
Gender | Girls |
Age range | 3 - 18 |
Enrolment | 35 - 50 |
Education system | IGCSE, A-level, Cambridge English Language Assessment |
Website | colegioguadalaviar |
Colegio Guadalaviar is an international school in Valencia, Spain. Includes the educational stages from 3 years to high school (3 to 18 years). It was founded in 1959 by a group of parents inspired by saint Josemaría Escrivá[1] he school is regarded as one of the best schools in Comunidad Valenciana. The curriculum includes Dual Baccalaureate[2][3] . His educational project is based on personalized attention, multilingualism, innovation and collaboration with families.[4]
Organisation[]
The school is divided into three divisions—Elementary (pre-kindergarten to grade six), Middle (grades seven, and eight, nine and ten), and High School (grades eleven and twelve). The typical class has twenty-five students, with many language classes considerably smaller.
Mathematics Olympiad[]
The Guadalaviar's Mathematics Olympiad is Valencia's top mathematical problem-solving competition for High School students. The first Guadalaviar's Mathematics Olympiad was held in 1992. It is sponsored by Generalitat Valenciana, City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia CF and Caixabank.[5]
Rankings[]
According to | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2020 |
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Placed in terms of Spanish University Access Tests | 2[6] | 2[7] | 1[8][9] | 2[10][11] | 1[12] | 2 | 2 | 1[13][14] | 4 | 4 |
The best schools in Valencia according to El Mundo | 2[15] | 1[16] | 2[17] | 2 [18] | 2[19] | 1 | 1[20] | 4[21] | 3[22] |
In 2017 Guadalaviar passed the PISA exams and the results were even better than the means obtained by the centers in Finland, which remained the best performing country overall in Europe.[23][24]
Name[]
It is named for Guadalaviar river, a Spanish river which has its source in the Montes Universales in the mountain ranges of the northwesternmost end of the Sistema Ibérico.
Notable alumni[]
- Laura Gallego García is a Spanish author known by The Idhún's Memories
References[]
- ^ "Guadalaviar". colegioguadalaviar.es. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ^ "LOGSE" (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministry of Education (Spain). 1990. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ^ MejoresColegios (in Spanish), MejoresColegios
- ^ "Guadalaviar School". Colegio Guadalaviar (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "800 finalistas en la jornada matemática". 24 April 2016.
- ^ "Ránking de Selectividad 2011 por centros de la C. Valenciana". 3 November 2011.
- ^ "IES LA MELVA – Web informativa del IES la Melva (Elda)" (PDF).
- ^ "Los veinticinco centros valencianos con mejores notas en la Selectividad". 31 October 2012.
- ^ http://colegioguadalaviar.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012_11_Selectividad2012ranking.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ http://colegioguadalaviar.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ranking_elmundo_2013.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2013/03/29/colegios.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ http://colegioguadalaviar.es/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014_07_04_resultados_selectividad_02.jpg
- ^ http://servicios.lasprovincias.es/documentos/notas-selectividad-2017-colegios-alumnos.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
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- ^ http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2013/03/29/colegios.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Los 50 mejores colegios de la Comunidad Valenciana". 24 March 2014.
- ^ "Colegios plurilingües e innovadores, los 50 mejores de la Comunidad". 28 March 2015.
- ^ http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2017/03/29/colegios.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ "El ranking de los 50 mejores colegios valencianos". 24 March 2018.
- ^ "Los 50 mejores colegios privados y concertados de la Comunidad Valenciana". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "About PISA". OECD PISA. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
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- Educational institutions established in 1959
- International schools in Spain
- 1959 establishments in Spain