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Colegio Guadalaviar
Location
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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] 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

References

  1. ^ "Guadalaviar". colegioguadalaviar.es. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  2. ^ "LOGSE" (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministry of Education (Spain). 1990. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  3. ^ MejoresColegios (in Spanish), MejoresColegios
  4. ^ "Guadalaviar School". Colegio Guadalaviar (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  5. ^ "800 finalistas en la jornada matemática". 24 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Ránking de Selectividad 2011 por centros de la C. Valenciana". 3 November 2011.
  7. ^ "IES LA MELVA – Web informativa del IES la Melva (Elda)" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Los veinticinco centros valencianos con mejores notas en la Selectividad". 31 October 2012.
  9. ^ http://colegioguadalaviar.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012_11_Selectividad2012ranking.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  10. ^ http://colegioguadalaviar.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ranking_elmundo_2013.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  11. ^ http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2013/03/29/colegios.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  12. ^ http://colegioguadalaviar.es/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014_07_04_resultados_selectividad_02.jpg [bare URL image file]
  13. ^ http://servicios.lasprovincias.es/documentos/notas-selectividad-2017-colegios-alumnos.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  14. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-07-05.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ^ "100 colegios (Curso 2009/2010) | elmundo.es".
  16. ^ http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2012/04/02/colegios.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  17. ^ http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2013/03/29/colegios.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  18. ^ "Los 50 mejores colegios de la Comunidad Valenciana". 24 March 2014.
  19. ^ "Colegios plurilingües e innovadores, los 50 mejores de la Comunidad". 28 March 2015.
  20. ^ http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2017/03/29/colegios.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  21. ^ "El ranking de los 50 mejores colegios valencianos". 24 March 2018.
  22. ^ "Los 50 mejores colegios privados y concertados de la Comunidad Valenciana". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  23. ^ "About PISA". OECD PISA. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  24. ^ http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2018/03/25/50%20MEJORES%20COLEGIOS%201.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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