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Agora Lledó International School is delighted that you’re considering our school for your child’s education.
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At Agora Lledó International School, we educate global citizens through a comprehensive education and strong values. Our prestigious International Baccalaureate (IB) program offers excellent academic training and opens the doors to great professional opportunities for our students. 🌍
Welcome to Agora Lledó International School
Agora Lledó International School is a private school in Castellón which places great importance on innovation, giving an all-round education and providing personalised attention for each of its pupils. The school is an official music conservatory as well as a sports centre and we were the first school in Castellón to incorporate the International Baccalaureate curriculum in 2011, being in 2024 the first school in Castellón and the second in the Valencian Community to offer the complete IB continuum across its three academic stages.
We belong to the Globeducate international group and is adapted to the most demanding educational standards. With a 100% pass rate in the university entrance exams, it provides an international education, oriented towards today's globalised world and with special attention to education in values, always prioritising personalised attention for each student and their specific needs.
We prepare our students for an international future. We offer a multilingual educational project, with linguistic immersion beyond English, which allows them to master the official languages along with English, French, German or Chinese. To complete the linguistic programme, international events, exchanges and stays in different destinations are available.
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| Number of students |
850 |
| Number of nationalities represented in the school |
27 |
| Most common nationality |
United States, Chinese and Russian |
| Ratio of local students to international students |
80% |
| Native English and Spanish speaking teachers |
To ensure high-quality teaching, we have highly qualified teachers specialised in language instruction, many of whom have international experience. |
| Language support for students not fluent in English and Spanish |
Yes |
| Additional language classes offered by the school |
French and German |
| Max. number of students per class |
20 |
| Average number of students per class |
20 |
| Does the school employ teaching assistants? |
Yes |
| Use of technology in the classroom |
ALIS has an IT classroom with 25 PC’s and two mobile classrooms for Primary and Secondary that each have 25 laptops. Baccalaureate students can also bring their own devices to school. The teachers also have a further 35 laptops for their own use and a further 45 for each tutorial. In addition to this, there are 50 fixed projectors in the classrooms, 3 digital classrooms with Tablet PC’s, projectors and Wacom tablets, 9 smartboards, 70 robots for Robotics and another 4 for Computer Science, 35 tablets for the teachers on the Gavea Project, plus 360 tablets for pupils and a further 25 for Preschool pupils, 30 tablets- for robotics students 5 drones, 2 video cameras, 2 digital cameras, servers and control units plus a 3 3D printer. |
| Is the school ready to use virtual classrooms when needed? (e.g. teaching lessons online if the school is closed, e.g. during COVID-19 closures) |
Yes |
| Do students practice religion at the school? What religion? |
No |
| External examinations or assessments available |
IB Diploma
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| Results in these examinations |
IB Diploma 38.5/40
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| Do teachers assign homework to their students? |
Yes but mostly we do it in class. |
| Approximate hours of homework given |
The amount is very little. Teachers of our school send homework to our students to have a reading routine. |
| Percentage of students who pursue further education post-graduation |
90% |
| Dedicated staff/programs for students with special learning needs |
Guidance and Educational Psychology Department |
| Learning support offered |
The department is a differentiating service that deals with the educational needs of each student individually while keeping in mind the diversity among the pupils. It is aware of the specific emotional and educational demands that exist in order to establish a multi-curricular approach in each individual case. The department works alongside the families to adapt the resources to each pupil’s needs, boosting their aptitudes so that each one of them can attain a level of educational excellence. |
| The school supports gifted, able and talented students |
Innovation and Pedagogical Research Department has developed a pioneering programme designed to respond specifically to the educational needs of Gifted and Talented students. |
| Student access to education psychologist |
Yes |
| Entry evaluation for students |
Admission test |
| Brief description of entry evaluation required |
The evalution is only for the students that are starting 1st of IB, which is 11th grade. The evaluation consists in the analysis of their previous grades. |
| Waiting list |
Yes |
| Deadline for registration (new academic year) |
There is no deadline. The registration to our school depends on the space that we have in each class. |
| Students can join after academic year begins |
Yes |
| School start time |
9 AM |
| School finish time |
5 PM |
| Supervised care before/after school |
Yes. We believe that schools must be sensitive to families’ needs and that's why children can either come early or stay on at the school outside the normal school timetable, so that those families who need this service can combine school and family life as harmoniously as possible. The extended hours available for those families that need them are from 7:30am to 9am and from 5pm to 7pm, plus a games club from 6pm to 7pm. |
| School bus service available |
Yes. To facilitate access for families who live in towns close to the capital and to help them achieve the right balance between work and school hours, our school offers several bus routes from towns near the school |
| School provided lunches |
Yes. The school has its own kitchen and dietitian which ensures the proper nutrition of our pupils: soft diets, vegetarian diets, a halal menu for Muslim children, weight-loss diets, celiac or diabetes diets, and so on. The dining room also has different times for the various stages so that Preschool, Primary and Secondary and Baccalaureate students all have their own times. |
| Food alternatives for special dietary needs (ie. vegan, kosher, halal etc) |
Yes |
| Uniform required |
Yes |
| Extracurricular activities or clubs offered |
Skating, rhythmic gymnastics, judo, paddle tennis, horse-riding, basketball, yoga, choreography, modern dance, ballet, music, swimming, comic drawing, animation, videogame design, lab work and experiments, robotics, coding 3D model course, chess, languages. |
| Sports activities included |
Swimming and All kind of sports in the P.E class. |
| Sports teams or sport competitions available for students |
Yes. There are 3 sports clubs that are national federation members at the school and that are open to children of Preschool, Primary and Secondary age: Rhythmic gymnastics, with the Club Rítmica Lledó, which competes on a national and international level and has won several provincial and national championships; football, with the younger teams being top of their divisions and from where the players go on to play in the more senior teams, and; swimming, where the team competes on a provincial, regional and national level. These clubs are open to the general public too. |
| Facilities at the school |
Biology, Chemistry and physics, geology lab. and showroom, 3 libraries, theater, sports hall, conservatory and performing arts specific classroom (Black Box). Agora Educativa: Open multidisciplinary space for primary and secondary school pupils |
| Sports facilities at the school |
- Sports hall with 1.204.90 m²
Outdoor sports area:
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| Qualities and characteristics best defining the school |
The Agora Lledó International School is a private school in Castellón that is part of the Globeducate international group of schools and which meets the most demanding standards of education. ALIS has a 100% pass rate in Selectividad, it provides an international education that focuses on our globalised world and with a special emphasis on a value-based education. In addition to a language immersion programme with a wide range of foreign languages, ALIS offers Spanish Baccalaureate and International Baccalaureate as well as comprehensive art, music and sports programmes. Our students can start at the school from the age of 1 to 18, they follow the International Baccalaureate curriculum with a bilingual education in Spanish and English with a wide and improved offer of global languages including French and German. Our high school students from 16 to 18 years of age can choose between the National Baccalaureate or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, whose worldwide renown is endorsed by the excellent academic results of which we are particularly proud. The majority of our families are from the local area, but we currently have 25 nationalities in our community which defines the character of the school and contributes to the international mindedness, confidence, principles and respect we instill in our students that inspire and empower them to make a positive difference in their world. |
| Teaching approach of the school |
With an education programme which encompasses all stages from Preschool to Baccalaureate, ALIS aims to provide its pupils with an all-round education through stimulating activities. ALIS understands that happiness and motivation are key to effective learning. |
Why choose Agora Lledó?
Infant Education and Primary | Ages 1 to 11
Preschool is the basis for all the educational process. It is the time when foundations are laid. During this stage, the children start their development and an early stimulation allows the brain cell connections to multiply.
We offer the Primary School Programme (PYP) from 2022. At this stage, the children hone their personality and learn skills and knowledge related to oral expression and comprehension, reading, writing, and sums. They also develop social skills, work and study habits, artistic feeling, creativity and emotion.
Secondary Education | Ages 11 to 16
Secondary Education (ESO by the Spanish acronym), is an important phase in pupils’ lives.
We offer a broad and demanding curriculum, focused on different learning competencies, in which pupils gain not only a good command of the fundamental skills, they also gain an all-round knowledge which stimulates their critical, analytical and rational thinking. We take into account the various needs of our pupils at this age, as well as the range of interests they have when considering their future.
International Baccalaureate | Ages 16-18
Agora Lledó International School offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme since 2011. This prestigious programme is recognised worldwide for its high quality, developing and strengthening an international mindset and positive attitude to learning. With the International Baccalaureate, pupils can end their learning journey at our school with international studies which allow them access to the best universities in Europe and around the world.
Spanish Baccalaureate | Ages 16-18
The majority of our pupils who decide to study the Baccalaureate have made up their minds to go to university. These two years involve a great deal of theoretical content, and it is important to follow each pupil’s academic and emotional progress closely to ensure that they reach their full potential. The school's aims during this stage are double: on one hand, we offer pupils a high academic level to help them achieve the best possible results in their University Entrance Exams (PAU), and, on the other, to shape people able to successfully face the high demands of university.
Our Campus
Agora Lledó International School is located in some wonderful natural surroundings full of orange groves and 200 metres from the neoclassical Lledó Basilica. Our wide open spaces are one of the keys to our educational project, which gives importance to learning through living.
In addition, the school is an official music conservatory as well as a sports centre with facilities that adapt to every sporting need, such as a semi-olympic swimming pool, a children's swimming pool, basketball and tennis courts, two outdoor artificial turf football pitches and one indoor pitch. Thanks to these facilities Agora Lledó International School excels in sports and takes part in gymnastics, swimming and football competitions on a national level.
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