Jesuits Sarrià - Sant Ignasi School
Jesuits Sarrià - Sant Ignasi: we educate individuals to be aware, competent, compassionate and committed.
Our school
Jesuits Sarrià - Sant Ignasi: a school open to the world
We are a school that is open to the world, friendly and welcoming. Bringing together tradition and innovation, we accompany our students to help them to grow in all their aspects and to develop attitudes, values, skills and competences that will allow them to live and work in a world that is culturally diverse and in continuous transformation.
We offer a wide range of courses: from P1 to Upper Secondary Year 2, and various Vocational Training programmes.
Our facilities in Sarrià
Jesuits Sarrià - Sant Ignasi: spaces that benefit education.A wide range of learning, leisure and sports facilities in an uncongested area of the city offer training opportunities in line with today’s demands.
Our school has multi-purpose spaces that adapt to suit each of the educational phases.
Our Horitzó+ educational project
Learn about our Jesuit educational project: a global project with continuity at all stages.
We grow and learn by looking to the future with hope and dedication. We accompany our students on their journey to become people capable of transforming their environment.
Our management team
The management team leads the group of professionals who form part of the teaching-learning, innovation and school management process.
Josep M. Ramón
General Management
Eulàlia Poch
Management
Anna Puigderrajols
Teaching Directorate
Silvestre Falguera
General Mentor
Leticia Penzo
INFANT SCHOOL Management
Montserrat Llop
INITIAL PRIMARY SCHOOL Management
Mariona Gallart
NEW INTERMEDIATE STAGE-LOWER SECONDARY Management
Helena Labarta
LOWER SECONDARY-UPPER SECONDARY Management
Jordi Ollé
Head of Professional Studies
Eduard Rovira
Directorate of Pastoral Care
Oriol Parera
Directorate of Non-Formal Education Model (Extracurricular and Lunchtime Space)
Mer Benedico
Management Secretary
Noemí Sánchez
Head of Communication
Jesuits Sarrià - Sant Ignasi: our history
1622
Jesuits Sarrià - Sant Ignasi founded in Manresa by the Society of Jesus.
1892
The school headquarters are moved to the grounds of the Casa Gardenyes in Sarrià, in the original manor house that is now part of the Chemical Institute of Sarrià.
1893
Work begins on the current building, involving 180 workers. The project was commissioned to Joan Martorell, one of the most outstanding architects of Modernisme and one of Gaudí’s masters.
1895
On 3 December, the Feast of St. Francis Xavier, the new two-storey school building, covering approximately 25,000 m² and with a façade of 123 m, is opened. It is located on a site of approximately four hectares.
1932–1939
The Republic and the Civil War force the students to leave the building, although the classes are not interrupted, and they move to the Ramon Llull Academy and the Margenat Academy in 1937, where Jesuit pedagogical methods are reintroduced.
1939
After the war had ended, the pupils return to the classrooms of the Sant Ignasi - Sarrià school and, on 19 March 1939, classes resume as normal.
1939–1976
The institution becomes consolidated as a school of reference in Barcelona. The process of opening up the school begins in these years with the introduction of the responsible tuition fee, in order to avoid school discrimination for economic reasons. It is institutionalised to offer the facilities and spaces to people outside the school and the recruitment of female teachers begins.
1977–1978
The school becomes co-educational.
2004–2005
The Infant School building is constructed and P3 is introduced in the school.
2016–2017
The Nursery is incorporated into the school’s Infant School.
2019–2020
The Carles Riba nursery school is integrated into Sant Ignasi, expanding from four to five lines of subsidised Infant School.
Sant Ignasi currently has around 3,000 pupils, from P1 to Upper Secondary and professional studies.
The Sant Ignasi Alumni Association, created in 1934, is a group of more than 10,000 alumni.
Weather station
We participate in the University of Barcelona's European I-Change Project. We have fitted meteorological sensors in the school to measure meteorological data from the city and work on them in the classroom. We are taking part in the UB Living Lab - Barcelona Living Lab on Extrem Events (BLLEE), which forms part of the European I-Change Project, which has a total of 8 Living Labs in six European cities, one of which is Barcelona, and two in the rest of the world. Five other Jesuit Education schools in Barcelona, schools in Genoa, Amsterdam, Hasselt, Bologna, Dublin, Jerusalem and Ouagandougou are also taking part.
We ensure compliance with privacy and security regulations
We implement good practice policies such as our code of ethics, regulatory compliance code and child and youth protection protocol, among others.