| Our Lady of Remembrance College, Madrid | |
| Native Name: | Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo |
| City: | Plaza Duque de Pastrana, Madrid |
| Religious Affiliation: | Roman Catholic Jesuit |
| Headmaster: | m |
| Faculty: | 160 teachers |
| Staff: | m |
| Gender: | Coeducational |
| Enrollment: | 2,400 [1] |
| Website: | RecuerdoMadrid |
| Campus: | 25 acres |
Our Lady of Remembrance College, Madrid, (El Recuerdo or Colegio de Chamartin) is an infant through baccalaureate school established by the Society of Jesus in 1880, located in the Chamartín District of Madrid. According to studies by El Mundo in 2007[2] and 2012, it is one of the best schools in Spain.
El Recuerdo was founded in 1880 when Alfonso XII restored the Society of Jesus in Spain, after their expulsion by Charles III.
The Dukes of Pastrana-Infantado donated their land in Chamartin de la Rosa for the foundation of the school, and classes began in early 1880. The original school building was in neo-Gothic style and designed by the Marquis of Cubas in the late nineteenth century.[3] In 1920, a new, Gothic-Moorish style building was designed by Modesto Lopez Otero, who modelled it after the house of Ignatius of Loyola in Azpeitia.
The school building was closed under the Government of the Second Republic that again expelled the Jesuits,[4] but classes were held clandestinely. During the Republic, the school became an institute and during the Civil War it was used as a barracks.
In the postwar period the El Recuerdo facility housed the Jesuit philosophate, until 1955 when this was moved to Alcalá de Henares. Also during the postwar period included on campus was the free school of Nª Sª del Recuerdo, which had its entrance on Mateo Inurria Street and served mostly neighborhood children studying for the board exams taken at the Cardinal Cisneros Institute on Kings Street.