Zaleo

Zaleo Early Childhood Education School is a public center for the first cycle of Early Childhood Education (0-3 years) located in the Puente de Vallecas district of Madrid. It teaches in Spanish and is part of the Puente de Vallecas 13 School Enrollment Support Service; up to twelve centers from the same SAE can be requested in a single application.

The center is defined by a unique and inclusive educational project and a continuous search for pedagogical innovation, with key projects that have received recognition at the national, regional, and European levels. The teaching and learning process involves students, teachers, and families. Its commitment is to collaborate with families in a comprehensive education, open to culture and the environment, in an innovative, playful, and affectionate atmosphere. The project is conceived as integral and compensatory, with innovative methodology, inclusion of families, continuous improvement, and teamwork. It has an educational project and a service charter, and offers a restricted access presentation video. It also has co-financing from the European Social Fund, a certification of compliance with the National Security Scheme at medium category, and an anonymous mailbox from the Regional Drug Plan of the Community of Madrid.

For the 2026-2027 school year, it offers places in the 2-3 year group for those born in 2024. The ordinary admission process for the first cycle establishes the submission of applications from March 11 to 25, 2026, provisional lists on May 11, a claims period on May 12, 13, and 14, definitive lists on June 5, and enrollment formalization from June 11 to 25, 2026. The extraordinary process opens from July 1, 2026, and can be processed in person or online, with a single application per center.