IES Sierra Almenara

What IES Sierra Almenara does

I.E.S. Sierra Almenara is a public secondary school (Instituto de Educación Secundaria) located at Calle Almenara, nº 6, Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro, San Roque, Cádiz, in the Andalusia region of Spain. Operated by the Junta de Andalucía through its Consejería de Educación, the institution delivers free secondary education under the LOMLOE national curriculum framework to students in the Campo de Gibraltar area. The school serves three primary constituencies: secondary school students (primary), families and parents, and teaching/administrative staff, with horizontal segmentation across all groups.

The school's core digital product is its Blogger-based blog (iessierraalmenara.blogspot.com), which functions as the official communication platform and publishes announcements, educational activities, event coverage, and curriculum-related resources. Supporting technology consists of Google Drive and Google Docs integration for document and resource sharing, alongside a digital school magazine ('La voz de almenara') distributed on CD and online. The school also operates a cafeteria service (comedor escolar) with monthly published menus. Proprietary features documented include Interactive Multimedia Books (Libros Interactivos Multimedia), blog-based communication workflows, and digital magazine publishing. The institution does not have a mobile app, API, or any disclosed AI capabilities.

From a business model perspective, I.E.S. Sierra Almenara is a non-commercial, government-funded educational entity. Revenue derives entirely from public education budgets allocated by the Junta de Andalucía; there is no tuition, no disclosed pricing tiers, no enterprise customers, and no commercial monetization. The only ancillary service with a published cost-adjacent artifact is the school cafeteria. The institution is government-owned (parent: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Educación), is not a publicly traded company, and has no funding rounds, M&A activity, or private investors. Director Jorge Ortiz Rubio leads the institution. The school was founded around 2009, coinciding with its initial Canal Sur TV media coverage, and was last evidenced as actively operating with blog updates through November 2018.

Name

IES Sierra Almenara

Legal name

I.E.S. Sierra Almenara

Website

https://iessierraalmenara.blogspot.ie

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

I.E.S. Sierra Almenara is a public secondary school in Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro, San Roque, Cádiz, Spain, operated by the Junta de Andalucía. It delivers free LOMLOE curriculum education to local students using a blog-based communication platform and Google Drive-integrated digital resources.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro (San Roque)

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

IES Sierra Almenara is a public secondary school (Instituto de Educación Secundaria) that delivers free secondary education following the LOMLOE curriculum to students in the San Roque / Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro area. The school supplements classroom instruction with a blog-based digital platform, Google Drive-shared educational resources, interactive multimedia books, cultural and sports programming, integrated learning tasks (tareas integradas), and a daily school canteen service with published monthly menus.

Product overview

I.E.S. Sierra Almenara is a public secondary education institute (Instituto de Educación Secundaria) located in Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro, San Roque, Cádiz, Spain. The school's primary digital product is its official blog-based website, which serves as the central platform for communicating school news, events, activities, and administrative information to the school community. The blog publishes content about academic competitions (mathematics contests), cultural events, sports activities, equality programs, and special celebrations. Supporting products include the digital school magazine 'La voz de almenara' (published on CD and online), the school canteen service with monthly menus, and various educational resources including word games and multimedia content shared through Google Drive and Google Docs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Public Secondary Education (LOMLOE curriculum) Free secondary education delivered at the on-campus facility following the official Spanish LOMLOE curriculum, including classroom instruction, integrated learning tasks (tareas integradas), guidance department services, and structured extracurricular programs (Sports Day, Book Fair, math contests, micro-story competition, Halloween bookmark contest, dance events). Targeted at secondary-school-age students in the Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro / San Roque catchment area.
• Revista La voz de almenara (digital school magazine) Annual digital school magazine published by IES Sierra Almenara and distributed to students and teachers on CD and online through Google Drive. Used as a school publication highlighting school activities, student work, and community content.
• Comedor Escolar (School Canteen) Daily school meal service for students, with monthly menus (including options for January through December) published on the school's blog to inform families.

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Canal Sur TVminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2009In February 2009, reporters from Canal Sur TV's educational program 'El club de las ideas' visited the school to cover their innovative use of blogs and Interactive Multimedia Books as educational resources. The program aired in March 2009.

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Blackboard: Blackboard is a long-standing K–12 and higher-ed LMS provider. It is a broad incumbent analogue for institutional education platforms spanning communication, content, and assessment.
• Moodle: Moodle is a widely adopted open-source LMS used by schools internationally. It is a broad incumbent comparable on the dimension of digital course delivery and resource distribution in secondary education settings.
• Instructure (Canvas): Instructure's Canvas is a widely used K–12 and higher-ed learning management system. It serves as a broad incumbent comparison for any institution consolidating communication, document sharing, and lesson delivery, as IES Sierra Almenara attempts to do via its blog stack.
• Google Classroom: Google Classroom is the incumbent K–12 learning management offering within Google Workspace for Education, the same ecosystem IES Sierra Almenara leans on for Google Drive/Docs document distribution. Comparable as the broad incumbent in school digital workflows.

Direct peers

• ClassDojo: ClassDojo is a classroom and school-to-family communication platform used by K–12 schools worldwide. It overlaps directly with IES Sierra Almenara's reliance on a blog plus Google Drive for messaging, announcements, and family engagement.
• Seesaw: Seesaw provides student portfolios and parent-facing communication in K–12. Its function of showcasing student work and family updates parallels the digital magazine and Google Drive document sharing practiced at IES Sierra Almenara.
• ParentSquare: ParentSquare is a unified school-home communication platform serving K–12 districts. Its function (announcements, family engagement, school-wide notices) is directly aligned with the way IES Sierra Almenara uses its blog and social channels.
• Remind (now ParentSquare): Remind is a school messaging platform connecting teachers, students, and families — directly mirroring the blog-as-primary-communication-channel model IES Sierra Almenara uses to distribute announcements, menus, and event information.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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