Santa Cruz

Colegio Santa Cruz is a semi-private center for Early Childhood and Primary Education located in Madrid, in the San Blas-Canillejas district. It is a secular teaching cooperative with over 60 years of experience. It offers Early Childhood Education for ages 3 to 5 and Primary Education for ages 6 to 12, with a single class per course and reduced ratios of 16 students in Early Childhood and 20 in Primary.

Its educational project is bilingual and cooperative, and includes a bicultural project (CBC) that integrates content from American and Anglo-Saxon culture, while maintaining the mother culture as a priority. The center is part of a network of over 30 schools with this project. Teaching is personalized through work routes adapted to the profile of each student and multiple intelligences. They employ the PROGRENTIS methodology to train thinking skills, digital skills, and attention skills. They have a "3D classroom" (Diversity, Discovery, and Fun) to support students with different curricular levels within the Compensatory Education Program. Emotional intelligence is integrated transversally, and active methodologies such as cooperative learning, quality feedback, and skills-based learning and thinking routines are applied. Part of the teaching staff is trained in Positive Discipline. The project also promotes the encouragement of sports through Physical Education to acquire healthy habits and foster personal development. The values that guide the center are commitment, responsibility, effort, will, respect, tolerance, kindness, and cooperation.

In the environmental field, the center has an ecological garden that is part of the School Gardens Network of the Madrid City Council, and was a pioneer in being part of the "Educa en Eco" network of schools. They develop projects such as "More Tupper and less plastics". Additionally, it offers a dining service with a neuro-healthy menu and adapted diets, extended hours, and extracurricular activities. It has active playgrounds where play is considered part of learning. The school has defined a student exit profile and guides students and their families in the transition to Secondary Education.