FAQs
We answer some of your concerns
What does Bilingual School mean?
A bilingual school is one that teaches its official curriculum in two languages. In the case of Colegio Alborán, this is taught bilingually for the Infant, Primary and ESO stages with the inverted pyramid system; being in children a higher percentage in English and decreasing as the courses progress. For the Spanish language it would be the other way around, lower percentage in infants and increasing towards the later stages.
What methodology is used in the school?
Where does the name Alboran come from?
Alborán is the sea that bathes the coasts of Marbella and the Costa del Sol, it is the westernmost part of the Mediterranean Sea and few people know of its existence. Its etymology comes from Arabic and means storm.
Do you have an international baccalaureate?
In our school the International Baccalaureate (IB), being the reasons diverse, meditated and pondered:
- Our focus goes to the University, specifically because of our location and student profile at the Spanish university. We found limitations in preparing the IB for the EBAU (Spanish university entrance exam) compared to our system, especially due to the large number of cut-off marks above 10, the maximum figure to which one can aspire with the IB.
- El Spanish baccalaureate has legal recognition worldwide, so our students can study university in any country with guarantees.
- We adapted to our curriculum and educational project the methodologies that we consider suitable for the IB without belonging to this type of diploma to do a Project aligning and where the best of the two systems come together.
- We understand the IB as its own conception and methodology, created by a private company based in Switzerland, which flees from our vocation and mission as an educational institution to adapt existing systems to our educational project and not in the reverse direction. We do this based on our objectives, ethics and experience.
How can I do to drop the children off at school earlier?
We have a Morning Class from 8am to satisfy this demand. You can get more information here.
What student-teacher ratio do you have?
The ratio varies according to the course.
We are very thorough and very aware of the importance of ratios. From Infant to Baccalaureate, we have ratios below the average in the vast majority of subjects for all courses.
What results do you usually obtain in selectivity?
Except for very isolated cases that rarely occur, 100% of the students who take the test pass the test, many of them having very satisfactory grades that allow them to pursue the university studies they desire with guarantees.
Where do your routes go?
Access here to information regarding our bus routes.
Are you an international school?
We are a school with international essence
Among the reasons that support us are: our students are made up of more than 30 nationalities, we make international trips during the course, we have teachers from different countries, and 3 languages are taught in our curriculum.
At Alborán we act locally and think globally
We prefer not to include the nickname "International" in the name of the school, since that would condition us to force certain attitudes that we prefer to be natural and based on our idiosyncrasies, which are already international.
How is the dining room and menus managed?
What extracurricular activities do you offer?
More information here.
What are your prices?
We do not share our prices online, request a call or a visit and we will be happy to share them with you.
What is your schedule?
The official school hours are:
- Infant, Primary and ESO: 9:30am-5pm
- High School: 8:30am – 3pm