Las Encinas

— Martín, in "Bienvenidos"

**Las Encinas** is a location on the Netflix series *Elite*. It is a bilingual (Spanish/English) international secondary school that educates the children of generally wealthy and upper-class families, although it also offers scholarships to the children of working-class families.

## History

### Award

In Season 1, there was an award to be won by the student who was the most outstanding in terms of academics and extra-curricular activities. It would allow them to study at a high school in Florida, which would help the student get accepted into an Ivy League university. The trophy was the shape of the Winged Victory of Samothrace Statue (the Greek goddess Victory).

Nadia and Lu were both considered contenders for the award. However, Nadia was dragged out of a classroom by her father, Yusef, during an exam, and Lu was suspended during the exam period for bribing Martín, a teacher, by offering to help him adopt baby from Mexico in return for good grades.

The award ended up being awarded to Marina. However, she intended on escaping to Asilah, Morocco with Nano after the end-of-school-year party. During the party, while Marina waited for Nano at the swimming pool, there was an altercation between her and Polo. The trophy ended up the murder weapon that killed Marina.

### Scholarships

Las Encinas has offered a number of scholarships funded by the wealthy parents of students.

### Ventura Nunier's scholarships

Ventura, Guzmán's father funded the scholarships of Samuel, Nadia, Christian, Cayetana and Pablo. The first known student to have received a scholarship from Ventura was Pablo. He was given a scholarship due to being a child of one of the cooks at Las Encinas. During Pablo's time at Las Encinas (2016), he began a relationship with Marina. This relationship resulted in statutory rape and Marina contracting HIV. Enraged, Marina’s brother, Guzmán, along with Polo and Ander, beat him up. Pablo was expelled and Ventura and Teo suspended the scholarship program for a year.

After, San Esteban collapsed, Ventura and Teo resumed the scholarship program in an attempt to salvage Nunier S.A.'s (their construction company) reputation, much to the dismay of Guzmán. Samuel and Nadia were given scholarships based on their academic merit. Christian was given a scholarship due to being injured from the collapse and requiring 14 stitches.

In Season 2, Cayetana was given a scholarship due to being a child of a cleaner at Las Encinas, likely funded by Ventura.

### Andrea and Begoña scholarship

In Season 3, after Polo's release from jail, his parents, Andrea and Begoña, decided to fund a scholarship for 1 Las Encinas student to study at Columbia University in New York City as a way to get on good terms with Azucena and have influence over her decisions.

The list of admitted students to the Columbia Program included:

* Nadia Shanaa
* Lucrecia Montesinos
* Ashlin Yu
* Ascen Marchena
* Irene Blecua
* María Cervera
* Javier Martín
* Carmen López
* Natasha Da Silva
* Beatriz Gómez
* Alberto Navas

In the end, the scholarship was awarded to Nadia, who decided to split the money with Lu. During the graduation ceremony, Nadia and Lu called out the injustices in the school. They criticised the decision that allowed Polo, a murderer, to graduate, but not Samuel or Guzmán. This angered Andrea and Begoña, who immediately cancelled the scholarship. However, Polo later revealed to his parents that he really murdered Marina and convinced them to resume the scholarship as he didn't want to cause any more pain.

### Expulsion of students

For a short time, Rebeka and Valerio began selling drugs on school premises in order to finance themselves. Valerio needed money to study abroad with Polo and Cayetana, whilst Rebeka needed to feed herself after her mother was arrested. This was eventually discovered, and Rebeka, Valerio, Guzmán, and Samuel were expelled for being involved.

## Students

**Isadora****Iván****Sara****Nico****Sonia****Chloe****Eric****Joel**
### Former Students

**Benjamín (graduated)****Armando (graduated)****Pablo Ruiz (expelled)****Marina (murdered)****Christian (drop out)****Valerio (expelled)****Polo (graduated)****Lu (graduated)****Carla (graduated)****Nadia (graduated)****Cayetana (graduated)****Malick (graduated)****Yeray (graduated)****Guzmán (drop out)****Ander
(drop out)****Samuel (murdered)****Rebeka (graduated)****Omar (graduated)****Phillipe (graduated)****Ari  (drop out)****Patrick (drop out)****Mencía (drop out)****Álex (arrested)****Hugo (arrested)****Javier (arrested)****Fikile Bhele (exchange student)****Dídac (drop out)****Rocío (drop out)**
## Staff

**Virginia Principal****Jessica P.E. Teacher****Greta School Counselor****Omar Manager of the "Hablame" App**
### Former Staff

**Martín English Teacher (fired)****Victoria Cleaner (quit)****Azucena Director (fired)****Cayetana Cleaner (fired)****Benjamín Director (fired)****Luis Head of Studies (quit)**
## Campus Locations

* Classrooms
* Science lab
* Azucena's office
* Library
* Swimming Pool
* Gymnasium
* Outdoor field
* Auditorium
* Cafeteria
* Changing rooms
* Tennis court
* River
* Bridge

## Trivia

* Nadia, Christian and Samuel all gain admittance to the school through scholarships funded by Ventura Nunier, Marina and Guzmán's father.
	+ Cayetana takes Christian's vacant scholarship when he leaves the school to receive medical treatment.
	+ Samuel was expelled and not allowed to graduate, but re-enrolled. However, he gets killed.
* On the first day of school in Season 1, Nadia, Samuel and Christian visited the pool and gymnasium before class.
* According to the school handbook, using your phone during school can result in it being confiscated for a week. Although, it appears that this rule has not been upheld as many students have been seen using their phones without consequences.
	+ Furthermore, smoking, drinking and doing drugs during school is forbidden.However, Rebeka was seen smoking in classroom and didn't get in trouble about it.
* Several students carried out sexual actions within the institution and were seen by others students.
	+ Lu and Guzmán had sex in the showers and were seen by Nadia.
	+ Guzmán and Nadia had sex in the locker room and Valerio saw them and filmed.
	+ Carla pushed Polo behind the lockers and Samuel saw them.
	+ Samuel and Ari in the physical education room are discovered by Benjamín.
* Samuel recorded a video of Marina dancing in the gymnasium for the class project.
* In her second year Nadia had the best average, followed by Lu.
* Valerio, Rebeka, Samuel and Guzmán were expelled in their last year; they did not graduate in 2020, but re-enrolled that year, except Valerio. However, Guzmán left the school with Ander at the end of Season 4 while Samuel was killed at the end of Season 5.
* Marina was killed at the school's swimming pool; this was also where Polo tried to kill himself.
* The school's exterior is filmed at European University of Madrid, in Villaviciosa de Odón, a municipality about 10 miles away from Madrid's center. The classrooms are filmed on a set.
* Most students use a Microsoft Surface Pro or Microsoft Surface Book Laptop.
* "Encina" means "holm oak" in Spanish.
* In Spain, teachers are referred to by their first name.
* In the episode Samuel and Guzmán, Samuel printed out flyers in the Las Encinas library to put a room in his house up for rent. Valerio accepted the room and moved in with Samuel, having nowhere else to live. However, Samuel kicked him out in "Rebeka" as retribution for giving drugs to Carla.
* So far, Nadia, Cayetana and Omar were the only scholarship students who graduated from Las Encinas.

## Appearances

* "Deseo"
* "Sábado noche"
* "El amor es una droga"
* "Todos mienten"
* "Todo va a salir bien"
* "Todo estalla"
* "Assilah"
* "34 hours missing"
* "36 hours missing"
* "59 hours missing"
* "63 hours missing"
* "66 hours missing"
* "84 hours missing"
* "0 hours missing"

* "Samuel and Guzmán"
* "Cayetana and Valerio"
* "Lu"
* "Ander"
* "Rebeka"
* "Nadia and Omar"
* "Polo"
* "Five Seconds"
* "When Lies Dance with Temptation"
* "I'm a..."
* "Reintegration"
* "I Love You All Wrong"
* "Before I Go (Part I)"
* "Before I Go (Part II)"

* "Anything Goes"
* "Tie Me Up"
* "Please, Tell the Truth"
* "Can't Buy My Love"
* "Toxic"
* "Your Side of the World and Mine"
* "Selfies"
* "Naked"
* "War"
* "Mourning"
* "Separation"

### Season 7

* "Las Encinas"
* "Protocol"
* "Bling-Bling"
* "Semicolon"
* "The Family"
* "At Rock Bottom"
* "Just Hug Me"
* "I'm Gonna End This Forever"

## Gallery

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4

## References

1. ↑ *Samuel and Guzmán*
2. ↑ *Nadia and Omar*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Bienvenidos*