Admissions

One of the hardest and most important decisions that a parent has to make is to choose the adequate school for his/her children. Northlands considers that each new student entering the School represents a mutual long-term commitment between the institution, the student and the family. This is a demanding relation for each of the parties, but provides unique and lifelong benefits, both for our students and for their families.

To ensure that this commitment may be mutually fulfilled, the School has set up different guidelines for the admission of its students. We hope that through our rigorous admission process the applicant families as well as the School may obtain the required information to determine if Northlands is the adequate School for the applicant.

Schedule of Admissions
  • Applications for admission at Northlands will be accepted as from the month of March for the following school year
    Closing date for Kindergarten: August 14
    Closing date for EPB, ESB and Polimodal: October 2
  • Applications will be considered by order of arrival. Every applicant must follow the admission process

Priority in the admission
Priority in the admission to School is granted, if and when vacancies are available and the applicants pass the admission process, to

  1. The children of School families
  2. The children of Old Northlanders


Admission process
  1. Complete the information form of the applicant - Contact >>
  2. Request an informative interview at the Admissions Office >>
  3. Once the family decides to start the admission process it should send the following documents
    to the Admissions Office:

    a. Application for admission On-line>>
    b. Signed form about the acceptance of the conditions for the admission process
    c. Letters of introduction of the family
    d. Copy of the last report
    e. Updated picture of the family and applicant

The Admission Officce will asign the corresponding interviews as follows:

  • Admissions Director, Head of corresponding Section (Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary) and School Educational Psychologists/Psychologists. These interviews will be assigned for the same day and will last approximately one hour and 15 minutes.
  • Play session / examination: The Admissions Office will inform the parents of the date for the play session (in the case of Kindergarten) or the academic examination (in the case of Primary and Secondary)

Communication of the final decision about admission
Approximately a month after completing the admission process, the Admissions Office will send the communication about the applicant's admission (accepted, not accepted or on the waiting list) to the parents, guardians or persons responsible for the applicants by mail. An Admissions Committee is in charge of the decision.

Once the applicant is admitted, the secretary of the corresponding section will require several documents including the last page of the parents handbook signed. >>


Foreign families
Families coming from abroad must comply with the steps described in the admission process.
They should bring the following information to the admission interview:

  1. Reports from the current school
  2. Samples of the student's work according to the corresponding level (e.g. language, math exercise books, Kindergarten copybooks, etc.)
  3. Letter of introduction of the family, which may be from a School family or from an Old Northlander. Should there be no person related to the institution, a letter from a person who can be considered an adequate reference may be submitted (head of the current school). This letter should be sent in a sealed envelope to the Admissions Office and may not be written by a member of the School Staff or by a direct family member. Submitting the letter is a requirement for initiating the admission process and will, in no case, determine the applicant's admission.
  4. Once the applicant is admitted, the educational psychologists / psychologists and the Head of the corresponding section decide, basing their decision on the level examination taken, the form/year the student will attend.
  5. Updated picture of the family and applicant.

Spanish for foreigners
The school offers learning support in Spanish, through its International Department / Special Spanish (in the case of Nordelta), to the students who need to learn or improve the language.