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Los Realejos, Spain · est. 1967 · Private
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The British School of Tenerife grew out of two old schools in the north of the island. In 1967 Bernard Yeoward donated a site in Puerto de la Cruz, and the first British school on Tenerife opened on it; in 1979 the Spanish state recognised it as an international school of the British system, and in the 1980s a primary building was put up in La Luz. In 1991 the Simmonds family founded Trinity School in Los Realejos, and in 2010 the two schools merged into today's BST: the primary stage stayed on the Yeoward site in La Luz, the secondary and senior stages on the Trinity site. Today it has more than 500 pupils, more than 60 teachers, more than thirty nationalities and pass rates above 99 per cent at IGCSE and A-Level. Both predecessor schools were members of NABSS and fully authorised by the Spanish authorities, and both were non-selective, welcoming children of all abilities - a legacy the school claims plainly as its own. It sums up its core values in four words: commitment, kindness, honesty, respect.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 519–6 970 a year
4 000–6 170 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Languages of instruction
English
Registration fee
≈ $465
412 EUR
About the fees The fee for 2026/27 is paid in ten equal monthly instalments and rises by stage: Playgroup and Nursery 4000 EUR a year, Reception 4408, Year 1-3: 4872, Year 4-6: 5201, Year 7-9: 5540, Year 10-11: 5613 and Year 12-13: 6170 EUR. On top of the fee there is a registration fee of 412 EUR, an IT fee of 100 EUR and, in the Early Years, a snack charge of 170 EUR a year. The first school year is paid in advance by bank transfer or covered by a bank guarantee for the total amount payable over the year; from the second year a deposit of 1500 EUR is held. Discounts: 2 per cent for paying the year in full for pupils enrolled the previous year, and family discounts of 8 per cent for two children, 11 for three and 12 for four or more. Transport, meals, extracurricular activities, trips and examinations are not included.
Admissions The school does take foreigners and says so on its admission page: each year it welcomes students from all over the world. Admission starts with a call, an e-mail or a form in which the family tells the school about itself; then the school offers a visit, a tour of the sites and a conversation with the academic team, and families not yet in Tenerife can speak to the school by telephone or video call. The school names no entrance tests, English requirements or deadlines on these pages; for children whose first language is not English, the primary school has teachers of English as an additional language (EAL).
Stages and year groups Grades Playgroup and Nursery - Year 13. The stages are split between sites: Early Years and primary on the La Luz site in La Orotava, secondary and Sixth Form on the Trinity site in Los Realejos. Key Stage 4 ends with IGCSEs and Key Stage 5 is Years 12 and 13 with A-Levels; the school also prepares pupils for the Spanish PAU examination for those going on to Spanish universities.
Address Calle Los Almacigos 3C
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeBSO · accreditationNABSS · school is part of the networkschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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A scheme of the UK Department for Education: a school abroad is inspected against the standards for independent schools in England, including safeguarding and the standards for boarding. The inspections are done by independent inspectorates approved by the department, and the inspectorates themselves are monitored annually by Ofsted. The reports are published in full on the government website.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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NABSS (National Association of British Schools in Spain) is not an owner of schools but an association of British schools in Spain, founded in 1978 by a group of leading British schools in the country. According to the association, it has more than 80 member schools, which educate more than 49,000 children and employ more than 5,000 teachers. Only schools officially authorised by the Spanish authorities as foreign schools teaching the British education system and certified by the British Council after inspections can be members; new schools that are still developing are not admitted straight away. The association represents the schools' common interests, encourages collaboration between them and holds an annual conference; its school finder places member schools in Madrid, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Andalusia, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Murcia and other regions. The association's site is nabss.org.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results Pupils sit IGCSE in Year 11 and A-Level in Years 12-13. In 2026 at IGCSE more than half of the grades were A*-B and more than three quarters C or above; at A-Level almost half of the grades were A*-B and 96% passed; all 39 A-Level entries in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics passed, 48.7% of them at A*-B, in physics 60% A*-A and 80% A*-B, in mathematics 61.5% A*-B. In 2025 at IGCSE 39.8% of grades were A*-A and 93.5% C or above, at A-Level 35% were A*-A and 96.8% passed; several pupils received Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards for the best results in Spain.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Campus: There are two sites. At the primary site, in La Luz, - separate Early Years and primary buildings, a neurodiversity room, a music room, an indoor sports hall, a library, a sensory room, a multipurpose room, a computing suite, playgrounds, a dining room and air conditioning in most classrooms. At the secondary site, in Los Realejos, - physics, biology and chemistry laboratories, art, history, geography, mathematics, computer science, languages, drama and literacy rooms, playgrounds and a dining room.
Clubs and activities: Cookery · Karate · Basketball · Homework club · Hama Beads · Robotics · Yoga · Drama Tots · Minecraft · Mathematics club · German club · Football · Emotional intelligence · Dungeons & Dragons · Chess · From Screen to Stage · Study skills
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school publishes its staff by name and post, stage by stage. In Early Years - the stage lead and the Playgroup, Nursery and Reception teachers with assistants. In primary school - two class teachers for most year groups, English and maths coordinators, two teachers of English as an additional language, a music teacher and the Spanish department. In secondary school and the sixth form - the Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Sixth Form leads, the school counsellor, who is also the safeguarding officer, and subject teachers of art, business, computer science, drama, English, French, German, history, travel and tourism, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, philosophy, Spanish and physical education; two of them hold doctorates. The neurodiversity lead and the exams officer are named separately.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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