Guadalaviar School

Colegio Guadalaviar
Location
Valencia, Spain
Coordinates39°28′30″N 0°21′20″W / 39.4751°N 0.3556°W / 39.4751; -0.3556
Information
TypeSchool in Valencia
Established1959
GenderGirls
Age range3 - 18
Enrolment35 - 50
Education systemIGCSE, A-level, Cambridge English Language Assessment
Websitecolegioguadalaviar.es

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
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][15] 4 4
The best schools in Valencia according to El Mundo 2[16] 1[17] 2[17] 2[18] 2 [19] 2[20] 1 1[21] 4[22] 3[23]

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.[24][25]

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

References

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  2. ^ "LOGSE" (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministry of Education (Spain). 1990. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
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  6. ^ "Ránking de Selectividad 2011 por centros de la C. Valenciana". 3 November 2011.
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  9. ^ "Mas Camarena (Bétera) mejor centro de la Comunitat en la Selectividad 2012" (PDF). MAGISTERO. 31 October 2012.
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  14. ^ "Resultats globals per centres i per universitat" (PDF). Estadístiques PAU. June 2017.
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  16. ^ "100 colegios (Curso 2009/2010) | elmundo.es".
  17. ^ a b "LOS RANKING DE EL MUNDO 2012/2013, LOS 50 MEJORES COLEGIOS" (PDF). EL MUNDO. 31 March 2012.
  18. ^ "LOS RANKING DE EL MUNDO 2013/2014, 50 COLEGIOS" (PDF). EL MUNDO. 24 March 2013.
  19. ^ "Los 50 mejores colegios de la Comunidad Valenciana". 24 March 2014.
  20. ^ "Colegios plurilingües e innovadores, los 50 mejores de la Comunidad". 28 March 2015.
  21. ^ "LOS RANKING DE EL MUNDO 2017/2018, 50 COLEGIOS" (PDF). www.elmundo.es. EL MUNDO. 25 March 2017.
  22. ^ "El ranking de los 50 mejores colegios valencianos". 24 March 2018.
  23. ^ "Los 50 mejores colegios privados y concertados de la Comunidad Valenciana". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  24. ^ "About PISA". OECD PISA. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  25. ^ "LOS RANKING DE EL MUNDO 2018/2019, 50 COLEGIOS" (PDF). www.elmundo.es. EL MUNDO. 24 March 2018.
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