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Castellón de la Plana, Spain · est. 1970 · Private
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Colegio Internacional San Cristóbal is a private school in Castellón de la Plana whose project began in 1970 with D. Cristóbal, who gave the school its name. Its ladder is longer than usual and starts from birth: the escuela infantil for ages 0-3 occupies a second building at Calle Moncófar 6, while the main college is at Calle San Jorge del Maestrazgo 2. Of the IB programmes the school runs all three and labels them straight into its stage menu: the Primary Years Programme sits on the infant and primary years, the Middle Years Programme on ESO, the Diploma in the baccalaureate, and alongside the IB Diploma the school keeps the national baccalaureate. After the baccalaureate it offers vocational cycles: administrative management, care for dependent people, nursing assistance, administration and finance, early years education and dietetics. The school's language of instruction is not one but three: it writes plainly that "castellano, inglés y valenciano" work as lenguas vehiculares - Castilian as the base, Valencian a constant presence, English used not only as a subject but as the language other subjects are taught in; on top of that German and French are taught. The school is itself a Cambridge exam centre. Among its distinctive features are a Montessori room, a music school, drama and chess, the Eco-Schools green flag, a weather station, Erasmus, a school guidance department, a canteen with transport, the Creative Summer summer school and bursaries for academic excellence. The school publishes its fees as a separate tariff document: from 509 to 739 euros a month, in ten payments.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 750–8 349 a year
509–739 EUR a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Languages taught
German, French
About the fees The school publishes its fees for the 2026-2027 school year as a separate tariff document, linked from its admission page. Tuition is paid in ten monthly instalments: nursery for ages three to five - 509 euros a month, primary - 547, ESO - 584, bachillerato (both IB and national) - 739. According to the school, the fee includes extra lessons and preparation, the school psychologist, a nurse, the learning platform, consumable materials, a parents' school, school insurance, speech therapy and psycho-pedagogical reports when needed, guidance and classroom costs. A sibling discount applies to the youngest child's fee: two children - 10 per cent, three - 20, four - 50. There are bursaries for academic excellence.
Admissions The school sets out admission in three steps: a request through the form on its site, after which the school calls back; an interview and a tour with the pedagogical directors; enrolment and reservation of a place for the new school year. The process, the school says, is flexible and depends on the stage: in the nursery the main thing is an interview with the family and gradual settling in, in primary and secondary the child's previous schooling is reviewed and in some cases there are level tests or an assessment by the guidance department. At the end of ESO a pupil chooses between the IB Diploma, the national bachillerato and vocational training. New pupils pay a non-refundable enrolment fee. The school does not write about foreigners on its admission page; in describing itself it says that its classes include children of different origins.
Stages and year groups Grades escuela infantil from age 0 - baccalaureate and vocational cycles. The school labels its stages in its own menu as: Escuela Infantil en Castellón (0-3 años), Educación Infantil y Primaria (PEP), Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (PAI), Bachillerato internacional (PD), Bachillerato - Nacional, and then Ciclos Formativos - Gestión Administrativa, Atención a Personas Dependientes, Cuidados Auxiliares de Enfermería, Administración y Finanzas, Educación Infantil and Dietética. The escuela infantil stands at a separate address, Calle Moncófar 6. The school publishes no daily timetable.
Address Calle San Jorge del Maestrazgo, 2, 12003 Castellón de la Plana
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, 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
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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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
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 hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Two buildings in Castellón: the college at Calle San Jorge del Maestrazgo 2 and the escuela infantil at Calle Moncófar 6. There is a canteen and transport (the school gives them a shared "Comedor y Transporte" page), a Montessori room, a music school, separate sections on drama and chess, its own weather station and the Eco-Schools green flag earned through the Ecoescuelas programme. The school publishes no itemised list of sports facilities.
Clubs and activities (8): Music school · Theatre · Chess · Montessori class · Creative Summer · Erasmus · Eco-School · Weather station
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a Departamento de Orientación Escolar - a separate menu section. It names no separate child protection policy, security staff, CCTV or medical room. Of its documents it publishes a quality and environmental policy.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
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 data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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