The American School of Madrid (ASM) () is a

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Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

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that was founded in 1961.

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, on calle América in Pozuelo de Alarcón. On May 21, 2025, Ukrainian lawyer and politician

Andriy Portnov Andriy Volodymyrovych Portnov (; 27 October 1973 – 21 May 2025) was a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. From 2005 to 2010, Portnov headed the legal department of Yulia Tymoshenko's election headquarters. From 2 April 2010 to the end of Febr ...

was shot dead outside the school.

Campus

ASM is an IB World School.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 10 kilometers west of the Madrid City center. Lower School Building * Learning Commons * Gymnasium * Early Childhood Center * Play Landscape Middle School Building *

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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

Spanish Ministry of Education The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPD) is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and carrying out the government policy on education and vocational training. This covers all the teachings ...

* The

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They are affiliated with: * the

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(ECIS) * the

National Association of Independent Schools The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is a U.S.-based membership organization for private, nonprofit, K-12 schools. Founded in 1962, NAIS represents independent schools and associations in the United States, including day, board ...

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

Demographics

ASM is made up of 36% U.S. citizens, 27% Spanish citizens, and 37% international students from more than 50 countries. In the 2021-2022 school year, average enrollment was 1030.

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: *

Art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

Club *

Arts and crafts The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the Decorative arts, decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and ...

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, porce ...

* Computer Art and Graphics *

Drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...

for Middle School and for Upper School *

Photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating 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 empl ...

Computer Programming Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called computer program, programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves designing and implementing algorithms, step-by-step specifications of proc ...

Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

Club *

Study Skills Study skills or study strategies are approaches applied to learning. Study skills are an array of skills which tackle the process of organizing and taking in new information, retaining information, or dealing with assessments. They are discrete ...

Computer A computer is a machine that can be Computer programming, programmed to automatically Execution (computing), carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (''computation''). Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic set ...

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 Board game, game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, re ...

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 o ...

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 approach ...

*Journalism Club * Theater Stage Design *

Scouting Scouting or the Scout Movement is a youth social movement, movement which became popularly established in the first decade of the twentieth century. It follows the Scout method of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activi ...

* Global Citizens Club

Athletics

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

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

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 Summ ...

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

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

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 (usually exceeding 200 bpm), complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerou ...

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

Notable alumni

Lincoln Díaz-Balart Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart (born Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart y Caballero; August 13, 1954 – March 3, 2025) was a Cuban-American attorney and politician. A member of the United States Republican Party, Republican Party, he was the United State ...

, former Republican congressman from Florida.

References

External links

The American School of Madrid

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Private schools in Spain Educational institutions established in 1961 1961 establishments in Spain