At this stage, the same concern gets on to numerous families with school-age children. The fact is that choosing a good school is not an easy task. Around 30 % of more than 7 million students of Pre- university general education ( except Formation Cycles) will choose private schools with special grants from the government. A total of two million families will prefer this model of teaching over public education.
The newspaper El Mundo has published in its thirteenth consecutive year the ranking of the best schools in Spain, in which Colegio Agustiniano of Madrid is included for another year. We reproduce below the review of this school, which together with the rest can be consulted in Orbyt (https://quiosco.elmundo.orbyt.es)
Colegio Agustiniano of Madrid
ADDRESS: Pez Austral, 13 bis / TELEPHONE NO.: 915 740 000 / www.cagustiniano.com / FEATURES: Sectarian / Coed / 1,277 students and 82 professors / 354 € monthly in High school/ with government grants
The high grades of the students are its greatest strength: in all the exams of the Community of Madrid, Colegio Agustiniano obtains above-average ratings. In the obligatory secondary education, more than 50% of the students get the diploma of completion and honorable mention that make it possible for them to have access to the Bachillerato de Excelencia (the last pre-university stage exclusive for honor students). The Universidad Autónoma of Madrid has congratulated them because, aside from obtaining an above-average rating (7.26) in 2011 with 80 students who took the exams, this year nine of their students got a grade above 9.
SCORE: Total: 89/100. Group A: 34/39. Group B: 32/34. Group C: 23/27.
80,000 youth in 11 countries
More than 200 Augustinian Recollects are dedicated to the educational apostolate, a mission that they share with more than 3,500 lay collaborators. Founded on the Augustinian pedagogy of love they educate more than 80,000 youth in eleven countries. Their schools, which include three universities, desire to be centers of evangelization, of integral education and enculturation. The Augustinian motto, love and knowledge, is a reality in the ministries of the Augustinian Recollects. There are 50 schools run by said religious in eleven countries of America, Europe and Asia. The biggest student population is in the Philippines where the Order has two prestigious universities in Cebu and Bacolod.
Every year in this Asian archipelago some 40,000 children and young men and women receive Catholic education inspired in the Augustinian pedagogy of love. It is in Columbia and Spain, however, where the Recollects have the biggest number of schools. In the former they have one university and eight schools, and nine in the latter.