Welcome to Greengates School in Mexico City
Greengates - Education With A Global Perspective
Greengates
School, founded in 1951, is a private coeducational day school on a purpose
built campus in the northwestern part of Mexico City. A British International
school with approximately 1150 students aged 3 to 19, Greengates caters primarily
to the diplomatic and multinational business community in Mexico. Some 50
different nationalities are represented in the student body, making cultural
diversity a fundamental part of the “Greengates experience”; awareness and critical appreciation
of this diversity are fostered in all aspects of school life: cultural events,
such as the International Fair, educational trips and sports tours, and the
academic curriculum. No student leaves Greengates with a simplistic view of
the world.
Greengates
is a welcoming school. While there is always a core of long-term locally based
students, annual turnover averages 20%, so in any given year about one student
in five is new to the school, and usually new to the country, and most of
the “old hands" have recent memories of their own experiences as
new arrivals and go out of their way to welcome newcomers.
Academically, Greengates aims to combine breadth and depth. While the curriculum is based on the British system, Greengates accepts children from a wide variety of educational backgrounds, and successfully prepares its pupils for further studies anywhere in the world. Greengates has earned an international reputation for academic excellence, a reputation annually confirmed by high performance in external examinations such as the International Baccalaureate Diploma, I.G.C.S.E. and U.S. SAT tests.
Much of this success is attributable to the teaching staff. Greengates has long had a policy of only employing qualified and experienced teachers and offering salaries sufficient to attract the best candidates, locally and internationally. There are currently about 95 teachers employed at Greengates, approximately half recruited from Britain, initially on two-year contracts, though many choose to stay for much longer periods.
Subjects such as ESL, PE, art, music, drama and computing are taught by professional specialists, as are, of course, the traditional academic courses.
The medium of instruction is English, though all students are required to study Spanish at the appropriate level, and some 40% of pupils who require official Mexican educational qualifications take a limited number of courses in Spanish.
Greengates graduates have entered top universities around the world where they have found their Greengates education to have been an excellent preparation for degree level work. They have all taken with them happy memories of their time at the school and we now have several second and even third generation Greengates students.
We are always pleased to hear from or meet with new families. Welcome.
Principal
Principal