Mexico, San Luis Potosi
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The school provides integral, secular, and co-educational education. The school forms happy people who know how to succeed in life. A strengths-based approach, grounded in Positive Psychology, cultivates students' character strengths. Innovation and a climate of well-being are woven into daily learning through ongoing teaching-methods development and the PRISMA-informed mindfulness approach.
The school offers a broad arts and performing arts program across preschool to secondary, including plastic arts, choir, melodica orchestra, theatre, dance, and instrumental music. Robotics, mathematical thinking, and entrepreneurship and finances are offered, with German, French, and interactive English available as language options. Secondary programs include digital animation and production, graphic arts, and an editorial workshop, alongside guitar, band, canto, and other arts activities. A rich mosaic of arts and creative opportunities is available across levels.
Full English Program in Elementary School provides immersion, and subjects in English include Science, Math, Social Sciences, Arts, and English, with 70–80% of the day in English. Education in Spanish is used for physical education and Spanish language instruction (grammar, orthography, and reading). German, French, and Interactive English are offered. Internationalization offers cultural-academic programs abroad in Bath, England; Rouen, France; Altdorf near Nürnberg, Germany; NASA, and cultural programs in Japan and Dallas.
The school offers a wide range of artistic, technological, and sports activities to foster teamwork, creativity, and self-discipline. Preschool activities include initiation to plastic arts, choir, melodica orchestra, and various sports. Primaria Menor includes melodica orchestra, singing, arts, robotics, dance, theatre, math thinking, entrepreneurship and finances, and language options such as German, French, and interactive English. Secundaria and Primaria Mayor broaden offerings with guitar, band, digital animation and production, editorial workshop, theatre, dance, and numerous sports.
Primaria Mayor and Secundaria include entrepreneurship and finances, and a Mathematics Elite Club, to foster leadership and professional skills. Languages such as German, French, and English support global readiness. A network of collaborators with Cambridge English, the IB Organization, and the College Board strengthens language certification and college readiness.
The school fosters well-being through Positive Education, guided by the attributes of the IB and the PRISMA model (Positivity, Relationships, Engagement, Meaning, and Achieved Challenges). Students learn to find peace through mindfulness practices. The climate of well-being is a core element of daily learning.
Instituto Cervantes Apostólica in San Luis Potosí is an IB World School offering Primary Years Programme and Middle Years Programme for students from maternal to secondary levels. The school teaches in a bilingual environment, with a Full English Program in Elementary and a broad range of languages including German, French, and Interactive English. The campus spans 80,000 square metres, the largest in the city, and features integrated active-learning classrooms, a Maker Space, a science laboratory, a Learning Resource Center, and dedicated arts, computing, and performance facilities in the Center of Arts. A climate of wellbeing underpins daily learning through Positive Education and the PRISMA model, aligning with IB attributes and fostering mindfulness. The institution emphasizes character development, leadership, and innovation, with ongoing teaching-methods development and international exchanges. The school has a long history dating back to 1954 and celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2024. A welcoming international community supports learners.