Mirasur School

A Cognita-operated bilingual private school in Pinto, southern Madrid, authorised for the IB Diploma and consistently ranked the strongest school in the southern belt.

Founded in 2001 and acquired by Cognita, the global education operator, several years ago. Large campus by Madrid standards, with more than 15,000 square metres of sports facilities and around 9,000 of academic buildings. PAU university-entrance averages have run well above the regional and national means in recent years, and Forbes has placed the school at the top of southern-Madrid rankings every year from 2021 to 2025.

Daughters and sons of long-term families generally describe a strong all-round education with a familial tone despite the size. The repeated criticism from a vocal subset of families is that the shift to a corporate Cognita ownership has felt more transactional, with extra-charge services accumulating and some sense of a gap between the family-school messaging and day-to-day handling of issues. Best fit for families settled in southern Madrid who want IB English-Spanish bilingual at scale.

• Small public review pool, consistently positive in tone.
• Parents praise personalised teacher attention and individual pacing.
• Facilities recur in feedback: large campus in Pinto, swimming, paddle, gym.
• The operator is Cognita, which acquired the school in 2020. Parent comments predate that change.
• Spanish-press rankings (Forbes, El Mundo, El Español) place it among Madrid's better-regarded private schools, but no granular forum debate is online.