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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain · est. 1972 · Private
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Canterbury School was founded in 1972 by Beryl Pritchard: it began as a small kindergarten of seventeen children in a house in the Ciudad Jardin district and over five decades grew into a school of more than a thousand pupils of many nationalities. Today it has four heads of stage and three sites: Milton House for the infants, San Lorenzo for the primary school, a secondary school with the Sixth Form, and a separate site in Maspalomas with infants and primary. The school says plainly that it is not selective: it takes pupils from any area of residence and with different abilities, and a child may join at any point in the school year and in any year group where a place is available. From Year 2 to Year 13 academic reports are requested on application and a meeting is arranged between the pupil and the department head. The fee covers something unusual: an educational insurance which, in the event of the death of a parent or legal guardian up to the age of 75, covers half the tuition fee for each child until the end of their schooling. External IGCSE entries are not included in the fee, but in Year 11 they may be paid in instalments from September to February.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Languages of instruction
English
Class size
up to 25 in primary
Summer camp
Yes, open to all
About the fees The school does not publish annual amounts on its fees page: they are posted as a PDF. The text gives the structure: for pupils already enrolled the first payment for the following year is the enrolment fee, made in June, while new pupils pay it on reservation; the September payment is then adjusted to the current fees. The fee includes an educational insurance which, in the event of the death of the father, mother or legal guardian (up to the age of 75), covers 50 per cent of the tuition fees for each child until they complete their schooling. The dinner service runs from September to June and is registered for in September, automatically at the end of September for Early Years. Early drop-off before 8:00 carries an additional charge added to the monthly bill. External IGCSE entries are not covered by the fee; in Year 11 they may be paid in instalments from September to February on written request before the end of July.
Admissions Admission runs in three steps: a visit with a guided tour, an application for a place, and the admissions paperwork. From Year 2 to Year 13 academic reports are requested and a meeting is arranged between the pupil and the department head. The school is not selective: it takes pupils from any area and with different abilities, and a child may join at any time in the school year and in any year group where a place is available; where there is none, the child goes on a waiting list. The school takes foreigners: on its home page it says that it has pupils of more than 30 nationalities; the IB Diploma Programme takes students after five IGCSE passes or equivalent, and a personal interview is held in every case.
Stages and year groups Grades Infants - Year 13 (Sixth Form). The stages are split between sites: Milton House for the infants, San Lorenzo for the primary school, a separate secondary school with the Sixth Form, and a site in Maspalomas with infants and primary. The school day starts at 8:30, with supervision in the playground from 8:00.
Address C/ Lomo el Diviso s/n
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeIB · DP · authorised programmeschool 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Campus: There are three sites. Milton House for the youngest - bright, spacious classrooms and large playgrounds. San Lorenzo - primary and secondary with the Sixth Form: secondary occupies two modern buildings on a site of more than 30000 square metres, with computer rooms and laboratories, music and art rooms, a library, a kitchen and dining halls, a theatre, a gymnasium and a sports pavilion. Maspalomas - infants and primary, well-resourced classrooms and playgrounds. There are basketball halls both at San Lorenzo and at Milton House.
Clubs and activities (11): Canterbury Lions Basketball Club · Football · Volleyball · Ice hockey · Judo · Roller skating · Athletics · Choir · Music groups · Theatre · Student union
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp and takes children from outside as well
The infant Summer Camp Infantil 2026 runs from 29 June to 24 July, Monday to Friday, at Milton House: drop-off from 8:00 to 8:45, pick-up from 15:00 to 15:30, lunch included, early drop-off from 7:30 to 8:00 costs 5 euros a week. It is for children aged 3-6 (born 2020-2024), both the school's own pupils and outside children: English, creative activities, drama and music, gardening and cooking, basketball on Tuesdays and Thursdays. In addition, the school's basketball academy runs camps in summer, at Christmas and at Easter.
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 sizein the key facts above
All teachers, the school says, are native English speakers; in secondary and the Sixth Form subjects are taught by specialist, IB-trained teachers. In primary there are no more than 25 pupils in a class, and for the youngest the school promises a high adult-to-child ratio. The school does not publish the number of teachers or their qualifications by name.
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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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)89 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 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 data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median83 "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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