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Palma, Spain · Private
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Green Valley School is a private British school in Palma, Mallorca, on Camí de la Vileta; it was founded by its current principal James O'Conner and general director Kathy Schütz. It follows the British curriculum: pupils sit IGCSE in Year 11, and Year 12 and Year 13 take the IB Diploma Programme. Teaching is bilingual, in English and Spanish, and pupils choose a third language themselves - Catalan, French, German or Swedish. The pre-school section, Happy Faces Kinder, takes children from the age of one. The school publishes its 2025 IB results: an average of 32.6 points and the Diploma for 91 per cent of the cohort, which it calls the global top 2 per cent. Homework is done at school - three hours of independent study a week within the school day. Sport takes place on its own grounds and at a new facility with an Olympic pool five minutes' walk away, plus workshops: gardening, cooking, art, theatre and robotics. Fees for 2026-2027 range from 11670 to 12210 euros a year.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $13 184–13 794 a year
11 670–12 210 EUR
Programmes
IB · DP · Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Spanish
Languages taught
Catalan, French, German, Swedish
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027 are set out by stage, per term and per year. Year 2 - Year 6: 3890 euros a term, 11670 euros a year, or 11320 euros with a 3 per cent discount when the whole year is paid at once. Year 7 - Year 13: 4070 euros a term, 12210 euros a year, or 11845 euros with the full-year discount. Payment dates: the first term by 1 June 2026, and this payment is non-refundable, the second by 1 December 2026, the third by 1 March 2027. Fees for the pre-school groups and Year 1 are not given in this document.
Admissions Admission to Year 2 - Year 12 follows a calendar: from September to December families come for a tour and a talk with the head of admissions, in March the child sits tests in English and mathematics, after satisfactory tests the school makes an offer of a place, with 3-4 days to accept; the place is secured with the reservation fee and the deposit, in June there is a transition morning for primary pupils, and school starts in September. Families can register a year before entry, and places sometimes come up during the school year. Applications go through the form on the site, by email or by telephone; the form asks for the date of birth, the current school and year and the languages the child speaks. The school names no special conditions for foreigners.
Stages and year groups Grades early years - Year 13. The school follows the British ladder: the early years groups Toddler, Twos, Pre-Nursery, Nursery and Reception, then primary school, IGCSE by Year 11 and the IB Diploma Programme in Years 12 and 13. Its own escuela infantil "Happy Faces Kinder" is described as a sister school, and the school does not write from what age it takes children into Green Valley itself. The senior timetable holds three hours a week of independent study inside the school day.
Address Camí de la Vileta 210, 07011 Palma
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeIB · 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
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). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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: DP (ages 16-19). 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Average IB score
32.6 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma results for 2025: a cohort average of 32.6 points, the Diploma awarded to 91 per cent of candidates, 36 per cent scoring 35 points or more and two pupils scoring 43 points each; the school writes that this places it in the global top 2 per cent. Pupils sit IGCSE in Year 11, but the school does not publish those results.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
·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: A building in Palma on Camí de la Vileta with refitted classrooms and modern equipment. On site there are football pitches, basketball courts and a multipurpose hall for dance and gymnastics; five minutes' walk away is the school's new sports facility at Son Roqueta with an olympic pool. Lunch is cooked on the premises, the school posts the menus month by month and promises as little processed food and as much organic produce as it can; children eat in several sittings so that the dining room stays calm. The school keeps an organic vegetable garden, and its harvest goes to the school kitchen.
Clubs and activities: Organic vegetable garden · Cookery · Chess · Robotics · Dance · Arts and crafts · Music · Theatre · Football · Basketball · Athletics · Ice hockey · Gymnastics · Pickleball
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 sizenot stated
The school publishes its staff by name: a leadership team of eight - principal and co-founder James O'Conner, general director and co-founder Kathy Schütz, head of primary Janette Harvey, director of education in human values Raksha Mahtani, deputy head of secondary Drew Sparkman, IB coordinator David Méndez, head of school culture Llorenç Mercer and general manager Philippe Bés - and teachers by stage. Secondary teachers are subject specialists who studied their subject at university; teachers of Spanish and Catalan hold Ministry of Education qualifications, and IB teachers have IB training. In primary, class teachers have assistants, and there is a coordinator for special educational needs. Mathematics, science, computing, literature, geography, history and music are taught by native English speakers. The school does not give the number of teachers or the ratio.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school publishes a safeguarding and child protection policy for 2025-2026, an anti-bullying policy, behaviour policies for primary and for secondary, a smartphone and computer policy and an attendance policy. It names no psychologist or nurse; there is a coordinator for special educational needs.
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Academics and programmes (16%)84 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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 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.
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