← Back to homeEscola Global International School
Palma, Spain · est. 2008 · Private
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Escola Global International School is a small international school in Palma, Mallorca, in the Parc Bit innovation park next to the University of the Balearic Islands; it has been running since 2008 and takes children from 2 to 18. About 80 per cent of the timetable follows the English National Curriculum and 20 per cent the Spanish one; the main language of instruction is English, with lessons in Spanish and Catalan and German for native speakers. In Years 10-11 pupils prepare for Cambridge IGCSE, and in the Sixth Form they choose three or four Cambridge International A-Levels with no compulsory subjects; for Spanish universities their studies can be validated through the bachillerato, and help with applications is given through UCAS and UNED. There is one class per year group, of no more than 25 children. Pupils are of more than thirty nationalities: about 30 per cent are Spanish, 20 per cent British, 20 per cent German, the rest from all around the world. The school is a Cambridge partner, a member of NABSS, recognised by the Balearic government, and holds the Eco-School and Blue School statuses. The kitchen is its own: everything is cooked on site from local seasonal produce, and lunch is included in the monthly fee. Phones are locked in boxes during lessons, and there is no uniform. The day runs from 08:50 to 16:00. In summer there is a bilingual camp for children aged 3-12.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Spanish
Languages taught
Catalan, German
Class size
no more than 25 children per class
Admissions Applications are accepted all year, for children from 2 to 18, subject to places; the school does not take pupils for short periods of a few weeks. There are four steps: an enquiry by form, telephone or email; a visit to the school and a talk with a head of learning, and from Year 3 also a short test in English and mathematics; a letter offering a place or a waiting list; formalities. Before the visit the family sends school reports for the last two years and other information about the child. The year group is set by date of birth, by the British school year starting on 1 September. The school takes foreigners: by its own account about 30 per cent of pupils are Spanish, 20 per cent British, 20 per cent German, and the rest from all around the world; it sets no separate conditions for children from abroad.
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery 1 (age 2) - Year 13 (age 18). The stages run right through on the British school year starting on 1 September: Early Years from 2 to 5 - Nursery 1, Nursery 2 and Reception; Primary from 5 to 11 - Years 1-6; Secondary from 11 to 16 - Years 7-11, where Years 10-11 prepare for Cambridge IGCSE; the Sixth Form - three or four Cambridge International A-Levels by choice, with the option of validating studies for Spanish universities through the bachillerato. There is one class per year group, of no more than 25 children. The school day runs from 08:50 to 16:00.
Address Carrer Germans Llumière 1 (Edificio Adduno), Parc Bit, Carretera de Valldemossa km 7,4, 07121 Palma
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeNABSS · 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
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.
NABSSschool network
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
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 transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The campus is in the Parc Bit innovation park on the road out of Palma towards Valldemossa, in the Adduno building, surrounded by nature and next to the University of the Balearic Islands. The kitchen is its own, with a Michelin-trained chef and a nutritionist: everything is cooked on site every day, Mediterranean food from organic local produce, with vegetarian and vegan dishes and allowance for allergies. Sport takes place on the school's own grounds and at the facilities of the neighbouring university. The school holds the Eco-School and Blue School statuses.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The 2026 summer camp runs from 22 June to 28 August on the school campus, for children aged 3-12, fully bilingual in Spanish and English. Hours are flexible, from 8:00 to 17:00. Every week follows one pattern: a themed Monday, a Tuesday with climbing or horse riding, a beach Wednesday, a Thursday with laser tag, escape rooms and a science lab, and a full-day trip on Friday, for example to Katmandu Park or Marineland. There is a shuttle from stops around the city. The weekly price depends on age, and booking before 10 May gives a discount of 20 euros a week.
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
There is one class per year group, of no more than 25 children; in Nursery 1 and 2 groups are of a different size. In the Sixth Form pupils work in small groups with mentors. The school does not publish the number of teachers, their qualifications or the pupil-teacher ratio.
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%)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 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 data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median64 "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 7 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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