The American School of Madrid (ASM) was founded in 1961. It is a private, K-12

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History

The American School of Madrid was founded in 1961 by members of The American Club in Madrid. It was initially located in several buildings in the Madrid: Calle Joaquin Costa, Calle Dr. Fleming and Calle Pinar. Kelly Gardener was the first Headmaster. In 1962, ASM Board architect, Bob Parker, obtained a ten-acre plot on the outskirts of Madrid, near Aravaca, as a future home of the school. On November 2, 1967, ASM opened in its current location.

Campus

ASM is an IB World School and offers the full IB Diploma Programme. The K-12 program is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the Spanish Ministry of Education. The 11-acre campus is located just 10 kilometers west of Madrid City center. Lower School Building Learning Commons Gymnasium Purpose-built Early Childhood Center Play Landscape Middle School Building Zero-energy building with modern science labs Performing Area and moveable furniture Middle School Commons Upper School Building Learning Commons Cafeteria Athletics Complex and Center for the Sciences Gymnasium Fitness and weights room Health and yoga room Science & Robotics Labs ASM Innovation, Design, and Education Hub The Da Vinci Space Center for the Arts 600-seat Auditorium Art classrooms Music classrooms Drama classroom Multi-purpose room Outdoor Campus All-purpose weather track Turf soccer field Multi-purpose field for baseball and other sports Two tennis courts Outdoor Play and Learning Landscape (2023)

Accreditation

ASM is accredited by: * The

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Organization * The

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* The

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They are affiliated with: * the

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(ECIS) * the

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(NAIS) * the Mediterranean Association of International Schools (MAIS).

Demographics

ASM is made up of 33.3% U.S. citizens, 33.3% Spanish citizens, and 33.3% international students from more than 50 countries all over the world. In the 2021-2022 school year, average enrollment was 100.

Faculty

In the 2020-2021 school year, there were 193 faculty members. Among the staff are several technology coordinators and assistants, guidance counselors for each school, librarians, nurses, maintenance staff and administrators, including the Heads of Admissions, Development, and Communications.

Student activities

ASM offers the following extracurricular activities: * Boomwhackers Club *

Art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

Club * Arts and crafts *

Ceramics A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain ...

* Computer Art and Graphics *

Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

for Middle School and for Upper School *

Photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

Computer Programming Computer programming is the process of performing a particular computation (or more generally, accomplishing a specific computing result), usually by designing and building an executable computer program. Programming involves tasks such as anal ...

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

Club * Study Skills * Computer Club * Creative Correspondence * Games for Fun:

Scrabble ''Scrabble'' is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left t ...

Juggling Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport. The most recognizable form of juggling is toss juggling. Juggling can be the manipulation of one object ...

Music Theatre Music theatre is a performance genre that emerged over the course of the 20th century, in opposition to more conventional genres like opera and musical theatre. The term came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s to describe an avant-garde approac ...

*Journalism Club * Theater Stage Design * Scouting

Athletics

ASM has 2 outdoor tennis courts, 2 basketball courts, 2 turf soccer fields, a baseball diamond, and 2 gymnasiums. *

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

* Soccer *

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

Ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

* Tap *

Modern Jazz Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early-to-mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumen ...

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

Notable alumni

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, former Republican congressman from Florida.

References

External links

The American School of Madrid

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