Educational Psychology Assessments for Runnymede College Madrid Students
Runnymede College was founded in 1967 by Arthur and Julia Powell and is now in its second generation of Powell family leadership. The school is the longest-established British school in Madrid and one of the most academically selective in Spain, with Sixth Form entry requiring eight A or A* grades at IGCSE.
The curriculum is the English National Curriculum throughout, with IGCSE in Year 11 and A Levels in Year 13. The Extended Project Qualification runs alongside A Levels in Sixth Form. Annual tuition spans EUR 8,850 in the Pre-Prep School to EUR 22,500 in Sixth Form. Students progress to universities across the UK, Spain, the United States, and elsewhere in Europe.
When parents or teachers at Runnymede suspect learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD, anxiety, autism spectrum profiles, executive function difficulties, processing speed difficulties, or working memory weaknesses, the first place to start is a comprehensive psychoeducational assessment.
A single-condition screen is not enough. A dyslexia-only screen tells the family whether dyslexia is present and stops. A screen for any single named condition does the same. It does not capture the ADHD that often co-occurs with dyslexia, or the anxiety that often co-occurs with both, or the executive function profile that shapes how the student experiences all of them.
For a Runnymede student in particular, the limitation matters. Highly able students with learning differences often compensate through cognitive ability, and a single-issue screen returns ambiguous results because the scores stay out of the diagnostic range on any individual measure. The pattern across measures is what produces the diagnosis. A comprehensive assessment delivers that pattern; a single screen does not.
What a Global Education Testing Assessment Delivers
Global Education Testing (Madrid) has worked with many Runnymede College students over the years. The comprehensive psychoeducational and neurodevelopmental assessment is delivered by HCPC-registered educational psychologists via secure video link, with the full process running over 21 days from initial enquiry to delivery of the written report.
The assessment examines cognitive abilities, working memory, processing speed, academic achievement in reading, spelling, written expression, and mathematics, attention regulation, executive functioning, emotional wellbeing, behavioural and social functioning, and learning differences across the full clinical range.
The diagnostic report is anchored in DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 criteria, written in English, and structured to satisfy JCQ for Pearson Edexcel and Cambridge IGCSE and A Level access arrangements (including the Form 8 where required), the College Board for SAT, ACT, AP, and PSAT accommodations, the Oxbridge and Russell Group admissions test administrators (MAT, STEP, TMUA, PAT, TSA, BMAT, UCAT, LNAT, HAT, ELAT), Spanish university entrance through EvAU, and university learning support services in the UK, US, Spain, and beyond.
The accommodations the report can unlock include extra time in examinations, supervised rest breaks, a separate examination room, the use of a word processor, a reader, a scribe, modified paper formats, a prompter for students with attention difficulties, and permission to take medication during examinations.