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Costa Teguise, Spain · est. 1986 · Private
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Colegio Arenas Internacional is a private secular school in the resort of Costa Teguise on Lanzarote. It was founded in 1986 by a group of parents so that the island would have better schooling, and since 1995 it has belonged to AISGROUP - a Canarian network of private secular schools without state funding that were the first to introduce bilingual education; the school calls itself the first bilingual school on the island. Teaching is bilingual, Spanish and English: at every stage some subjects are taught in Spanish and some in English. German is added from the 2nd year and Chinese from the 3rd, and in all three foreign languages the school prepares for official examinations - Cambridge from Movers to Advanced and IELTS, the Goethe-Institut and YCT. Since 2008 the school has been an IB "Colegio del Mundo", and it runs all three programmes in a row: the primary one from 3 to 12, the middle one from 12 to 16 and the Diploma from 16 to 18. Children are taken from six months. The campus covers about 7000 m2 with a swimming pool, a padel court, an artificial-grass pitch, a judo room, a ballet studio and the covered Aqua & Sports Center pavilion, its own kitchen and gardens. The group has its own centre, Sulis Manor, in Bath in England, where the school takes pupils in summer and for the autumn term. The school publishes results: in the 2024 EBAU half of its pupils scored more than 11 points out of 14, and it says that everyone passes the IB Diploma.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions The school begins admission with an application form on its website, after which the admissions team contacts the family and guides it through the whole process; the aim, it says, is to understand the future pupil's family and academic situation. Children are taken from six months up to the bachillerato. The school publishes no deadlines, tests, list of documents or language requirements, and describes no separate procedure for children from other countries.
Stages and year groups Grades Infantil from 6 months - 2nd year of the bachillerato. The stages run right through: Infantil from six months, primary school, ESO and the bachillerato. The IB programmes cover the whole path: the primary programme (PEP) - the second cycle of nursery and primary school, ages 3 to 12; the middle programme (PAI) - ESO, ages 12 to 16; the Diploma (PD) - the bachillerato, ages 16 to 18, over two years. There is an extended day. The school does not publish its daily timetable.
Address Avda. del Mar 37, 35508 Costa Teguise, Lanzarote
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · authorised programmeArenas International Schools · 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
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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible. 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.
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Arenas International Schools (AIS Group) is a private family-run group of schools in the Canary Islands; on the site of its Gran Canaria school the group says it began to develop in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1940, when the teachers Lucía Pérez and Antonio Ojeda founded Colegio Arenas, and that the work was continued by their daughter and then the third generation of the family. We did not find a separate site for the group: the list of AIS Group centres is published on the Gran Canaria school's site. In Spain these are Colegio Arenas (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, nursery, infant and primary) and Colegio Arenas Atlántico (Arucas, secondary and Bachillerato) in Gran Canaria, and Colegio Arenas Internacional in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote; the group also includes the Arenas Albéniz music conservatoire, the Aqua & Sports centres and the Sulis Manor centre in Bath, England. The two group sites give different dates for the Lanzarote school: the Gran Canaria site says it was founded in 1995, while the school's own site says it was founded by a group of parents in 1986 and has been a member of AISGROUP since 1996; we quote both. The sites are aisgrancanaria.com and aislanzarote.com.
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 In the 2024 EBAU 50 per cent of the school's pupils scored more than 11 points out of 14, 21.4 per cent more than 12 and 7.2 per cent more than 13. For the IB Diploma the school writes that everyone passed: 13 pupils in 2019-2020, 15 in 2020-2021, 25 in 2021-2022 - and in 2024 its pupils beat the world average in Spanish literature, biology, physics, mathematics, business management, English B and chemistry; it does not state an average score. Language examinations: 100 per cent passed PET, 88.9 FCE, 70 CAE, 92 German and 90 Chinese.
Where leavers go: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid · Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · University of Stirling
The school publishes no list of universities by year, but on its alumni page it names where leavers have gone: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Stirling - and writes that its pupils study at universities in Spain and other countries. The bachillerato cohorts in 2018 and 2019 numbered 41 and 32.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus: A campus of about 7000 m2 with gardens. Teaching rooms: bright classrooms with interactive screens, a library, laboratories, a computer room, an art room, an audiovisual room, a multisensory room, a learning resource centre and a school garden; there is an auditorium and lounges for the older pupils. Sport: a psychomotor room, a ballet studio, a swimming pool, a padel court, basketball and volleyball courts, an artificial-grass pitch, a judo room, a futsal and mini-basketball court and the covered Aqua & Sports Center pavilion. The kitchen and dining hall are the school's own. A Lanzarote Bus service brings children from Playa Blanca, Tías, Puerto Calero, Mácher, Playa Honda, Puerto del Carmen, El Cable and Arrecife, including on extracurricular activity days.
Clubs and activities (28): Swimming · Competitive swimming · Playroom (ludoteca) · Dance · LEGO workshop · Pre-sport games · Judo · Music and movement · Chess · Visual arts workshop · Futsal · Basketball · Drama · Rhythmic gymnastics · Padel · Contemporary dance · Music theory · Chinese · Volleyball · Zumba Kids · Performing Arts · German · Science seminar · Mathematics seminar · Humanities seminar · UCMAS · ROBOTIX · Federated teams
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
Summer programme away from campus: A summer course at Sulis Manor in Bath from 29 June to 20 July 2026, three weeks, for ages 12-17: a PGL adventure camp, English lessons, sport and outings; 3350 EUR excluding the flight. There is also an autumn term there, from September to December, for ages 12-15 with study at British schools.
In summer the school has its own summer school, "Estival", on a separate website, and for teenagers a course at the group's centre, Sulis Manor, in Bath.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The guidance department provides educational psychology, speech therapy and psychology - for its own pupils and for outside ones; the speech therapists observe and assess children and, at the family's request, give individual sessions. The kitchen caters for allergies, intolerances, vegetarian diets and religious restrictions. The school names no medical room, no security staff, no child protection policy and no anti-bullying rules.
Reviews
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Academics and programmes (16%)95 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data95 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median74 "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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