Col.legi Montserrat

A long-established Catholic school on Avinguda Vallvidrera in Sarrià, run by the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and now part of the Nazaret Global Education group. Spanish national curriculum alongside the full IB continuum, taught in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Montserrat is best known internationally for being one of the early Spanish schools to build its pedagogy explicitly around Howard Gardner's multiple-intelligences theory and project-based learning. The campus has been redesigned by Fielding International around that approach, and the school is regularly cited on the European education-conference circuit as an innovation case study.

It is a Catalan-medium school first and foremost, partly state-subsidised, with a culturally rooted identity. Parent voice praises the academic level, the human scale, and the values formation. The recurring critical thread is concern that the strong external profile and the highly visual project-based environment do not always translate into deep, sustained academic work for every student. Right fit for Spanish or Catalan-speaking families wanting the IB inside a local-school identity, less natural for short-stay expats wanting an English-medium immersion.

A Catholic concertado in Vallvidrera-Sarrià run by the Missioneres Filles de la Sagrada Família de Natzaret, on the books since 1926 and known across Spain as the school that built a working classroom around Howard Gardner's multiple-intelligences theory. Catalan is the vehicular language; the IB Diploma sits alongside the Spanish curriculum, and an MYP authorisation followed in 2022. Pedagogy is the headline: project-based learning, thinking routines, a heavy push into AI literacy under head Mar Sánchez Izuel, with an in-house protocol that admissions teams now reference as a calling card. The flip side is a long-running parent argument about whether the method delivers depth or polish, and whether the marketing has overtaken the maths.