King's College, Madrid

King's College is a co-educational day and boarding British curriculum school in Madrid, which provides British education for children from pre-nursery to year 13. It was founded in 1969 and is part of King's Group

King's Group is the owner company of King's College schools and is headquartered in Tenbury Wells, United Kingdom. As well as a boarding school also operating at this location, the Group also operates six other schools in Spain and Panama. Founded in 1969, King's Group now provides a British education for children from Pre-Nursery to Year 13. Also part of the Group is King's College International, which specialises in summer residential language courses and academic year abroad programmes, King's Training, which offers language and management training to companies located in Spain and Panama and lastly Nexalia Services, which offers catering and maintenance services.

In February 2014, King's Group was granted permission from the Department for Education (DfE) in London to sponsor Academies and Free Schools in England.

Numbers rose at the opening of its first school, King’s College, from 70 pupils in 1969 to nearly 500 by 1974. King’s College soon outgrew its premises and by 1976 ten houses of differing size and design were in use in the Chamartín area of Madrid.

After occupying these temporary premises for some nine years, the main school moved in 1978 to its present, purpose-built premises in the residential area of Soto de Viñuelas to the north of Madrid. Since then many improvements and additions have included a residential wing for boarding students (and later a new Boarding House built in 2011, Tenbury House), a 25m heated swimming pool, a 400-seat auditorium, a Music School and an Early Years Learning Centre.

Pupils follow the English National Curriculum and are prepared for (I)GCSE and GCE "A" Levels, including a wide range of subjects. There are also optional Spanish studies and preparation for Spanish University entrance examinations, in the Spanish schools.

Over the years, further schools were added to King’s Group – meaning that the group now has four more schools in Spain (Madrid, Alicante and Murcia), one in the United Kingdom and most recently another was opened in Panama (September 2012).

The main school site caters for more than 1600 pupils between the ages of 2 and 18 years (Pre-Nursery to Year 13). It is located in a 12-acre site in the countryside between the city and the Guadarrama mountains.

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