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Deutsche Schule Málaga - Colegio Alemán de Málaga

Ojen, Spain · est. 1898 · Private

Illustration · Ojen

Deutsche Schule Málaga is a private German school abroad on the Costa del Sol, in the Elviria urbanisation in the municipality of Ojén rather than in Málaga itself. The school traces its history to 1898. It has more than 700 pupils, and almost half of them, the school says, are Spanish: nationality plays no part in admission. The stages run from the Kindergarten at age three through primary school and Sekundarstufe I to the upper stage, where pupils take the Deutsches Internationales Abitur after grade 12; on application the Spanish leaving qualification is recognised as well, and with it pupils can enter universities both in Germany and in Spain. Lessons are taught in German, except Spanish, Cultura Española, Ciencias Sociales and philosophy, which are taught in Spanish; English starts in grade 5 and French in grade 9, and in the Kindergarten and primary school children speak both German and Spanish. The school has its own Goethe-Institut examination centre, a counselling and inclusion team with a school psychologist and a coordinator for wellbeing and child protection, a nurse every day and more than thirty extracurricular activities, from football and fencing to robotics and a school band. There are about 50 teachers and educators, of whom 12 are sent from Germany by the central agency for German schools abroad, the ZfA. The school publishes its fees as a table for the 2026/27 school year. The Bund-Länder-Inspektion of 2022 rated the school excellent.