← Back to homeEscuela Libre Los Lazarillos
Sevilla, Spain · est. 2010 · Private
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Escuela Libre Los Lazarillos is a small private school in Seville, started in 2010 by two educators, Isabel Abad and Chelo Távora. It calls itself a foreign private educational centre recognised by the American association NEASC, and the first alternative school in the city of Seville to hold that accreditation; its ideology is declared in three words - free, secular, democratic. The method is its own, assembled from variants of Montessori and Waldorf: the school says plainly that its formula is changing and experimental, built on observation and on a balance between what the children teach the educators and what the educators guide the children through. The school currently covers two stages - infant and primary - and from 2026/27 it is opening a secondary stage as well. Teaching is in Spanish, but the stated aim is bilingual, and English sits among the planned activities of the day alongside the vegetable garden, music, brain gym and dance. The day is not run by the bell: the school opens between eight and a quarter past, the whole group has gathered by ten, then comes a shared breakfast, a "greeting to the sun" with yoga exercises, then "concentration" - work with materials from the shelves, alone, in pairs or in threes, for no more than an hour - then a free choice between the two yards, the field area and activities indoors, around half past twelve a planned activity, and by half past one a shared lunch, after which the children wash up themselves in pairs and by established turns. The main thing a parent needs to know: the school gives no address in text on its site - it can only be taken from the embedded map - and it publishes no fees, no admission age and no number of pupils at all.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish
Admissions The school opened admission for 2026/27 with a blog post of 20 March 2026, and reduces the procedure to booking an appointment: telephone Isabel on the number given or write to the school's email address and ask for a meeting. The school names no examinations, assessments or enrolment fees; there is also an occasional open day. The school does not write about foreigners or citizenship.
Stages and year groups Grades infant and primary; secondary from 2026/27. The school covers two stages - infant and primary - and has announced the opening of a secondary stage from the 2026/27 school year. The group is mixed-age and the work is done with materials from the shelves by the children's own choice. The day: opening between 8:00 and 8:15, the whole group gathered by 10:00, a shared breakfast, around 10:30 the "greeting to the sun" with yoga exercises and a shared circle, then "concentration" for up to an hour - individually, in pairs or in groups of three or four - by 11:30-12:00 a free choice between the two outdoor yards, the field area and activities indoors, around 12:30 a planned activity - garden, music, brain gym, English or dance - and by 13:30 lunch: most children bring food from home in a flask and the rest have catering, and the children wash the dishes themselves in pairs and by turns.
Address Calle Conde de Osborne 46
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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NEASCNew England Association of Schools and Colleges
An American accreditation working since 1885. For international schools it uses an approach where the visitors look first at live lessons rather than at folders of paperwork: the team works in the school for about a week. It is the only one here whose public directory honestly separates accredited schools from candidates.
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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
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school is arranged as an extension of a home: the rooms are adapted to different educational activities, the walls are decorated with the pupils' own work, and there is a separate library - which doubles as a rest and research room - with direct access to the green area. Outside there are two open yards and a field area, which the children go out to after changing their shoes. A tortoise called Ramona lives at the school, and greeting her is how the day begins.
Clubs and activities: Vegetable garden · Music · Brain Gym · English · Dance
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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%)60 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 data73 Value for money (6%) scored at the median84 "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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