Capitan Cortes

CEIP Capitán Cortés is a public Early Childhood and Primary Education center located in the Madrid district of Carabanchel. It offers the first cycle of Early Childhood Education (0-3 years), the second cycle of Early Childhood Education (3-6 years), and Primary Education (6-12 years). Among its facilities and services are a library, cafeteria, school garden, and extracurricular activities, and the center works with both Spanish and English. The school has new facilities and has an AMPA that provides in-person support, in addition to collaborating with various associations.

In the environmental field, the center has been accredited as a sustainable center by the Madrid City Council and has received this accreditation again, this time at the Silver level, for the 2025-2026 academic year. It has also been recognized as an ecosocial center with Advanced level. As part of this commitment, it has installed a recycling center in the hall to reuse materials, along with a campaign to collect bottle caps. The center also defines itself as cognitively accessible.

Regarding its projects, it participates in the Visual Schools Program and in an inclusive program for communication skills, and is part of the Sharing Walls program, which brings urban art to Madrid's public schools through murals about the future; the mural by Jofre Oliveras addresses the relationship between biotechnology, sustainability, and renewable energy. After participating in the 2024-2025 academic year in the Municipal Police of Madrid's Anti-Bullying Zone program, it received the distinction of being a bullying-free center. Other initiatives include the musical siren, with a songbook in English that is updated weekly, and dance in TEA classrooms. The center celebrates activities such as an interview with a scientist on the occasion of International Women's Day, and the drawings of two of its students inspired Madrid's Christmas lighting.