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San Cristobal de la Laguna, Spain · Private
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Green Village International Montessori School is a private Montessori school on Tenerife, in Guamasa near La Laguna; the operator is GREEN VILLAGE MONTESSORI, S.L. It calls itself a calm international learning community for children from two and a half to twelve. It holds two recognitions and names them side by side: validation by the Consejería de Educación of the Canary Islands government for the pre-school and primary stages, and accreditation by NEASC. There are three stages: Children's House from two and a half to six, Elementary 1 from six to nine and Elementary 2 from nine to twelve. The school calls its education bilingual; the English coordinator leads the older Elementary 2 group, and French is taught by one of the Children's House guides. The school's distinctive feature is its own farm: the children look after animals, grow food and learn outdoors, and the farm is not an activity apart but part of the school day. It calls its community genuinely international: different cultures and languages meet there every day. For families considering a move to Tenerife the school offers Try & Decide - a month at Green Village with support for the family through the transition and settling in.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 711–7 287 a year
4 170–6 450 EUR
Admits from
2.5 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school publishes its prices itself, as annual amounts for the 2026-27 school year. Infant Community: 4650 euros from 9:00 to 12:30 and 6450 euros from 9:00 to 16:00 with lunch. Children's House: 4170 euros from 8:30 to 13:00 and 5715 euros from 8:30 to 16:00 with lunch. Elementary 1 and 2: 5820 euros from 8:30 to 16:00 with lunch. The annual payment is shown; termly and monthly payment are also possible, but with a different total.
Admissions The school admits foreigners and says so plainly: it works both with families already living on Tenerife and with those preparing to move to the island, and to those moving from abroad it offers a video call in place of a personal visit. Admission runs in four steps: a visit or video call, an application with the school's guidance after the visit, an offer of an enrolment agreement if places are available, and enrolment once the agreement is signed and paid. For those still undecided there is the Try & Decide month at the school. The school names no requirements about citizenship, residence permits, documents or knowledge of Spanish.
Stages and year groups Grades Children's House ages 2.5-6 - Elementary 2 to age 12. Three stages: Children's House from two and a half to six, Elementary 1 from six to nine and Elementary 2 from nine to twelve; Infant Community also appears separately in the price list. The short day for the youngest runs to 12:30 or 13:00, the full day to 16:00. The school ends at twelve.
Address Camino Santa Rosa de Lima, 66, Guamasa (Tenerife)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
NEASC · accreditationschool 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
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 pedagogy of Maria Montessori: a child chooses the activity, works at their own pace with special materials, and mixed-age groups are arranged so that older children teach the younger ones. It is used most often in the nursery and primary stages.
What this means for this school. The name Montessori belongs to nobody: any school may call itself a Montessori school, and there is no single body that checks this. There are associations that train teachers and recognise schools, but membership of them is voluntary, and our entry means exactly that the school describes itself this way. This pedagogy has no leaving certificate, so what to look at is what the school finishes with.
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
Campus: The school stands in Guamasa near La Laguna on Tenerife. Its own farm with animals and plantings is part of the school day; the farm and outdoor spaces have a person in charge of their own, the kitchen has its own manager, and lunch is included in the full-day price.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The school's camps run in the holidays - Christmas, Carnival, Easter and summer - and the school describes them as creative, active and outdoors whenever possible. The school gives no dates, ages or price for the camps on its home page.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: Montessori AMI
The team is published by name: the director Omar Medina Alonso - an AMI Montessori guide for ages 6-12, primary coordinator and Elementary 1 guide; Sarah Donz - an AMI Montessori guide for ages 3-6, coordinator and French teacher; Francesca Conradi - a Montessori guide for ages 3-6; Katie Hayward - a Montessori guide for ages 9-12 and English coordinator; Sarai García - Elementary 2 assistant, music coordinator, and teacher of music, theatre and robotics. Two more people are responsible for the farm with the outdoor spaces and for the kitchen. The school names no 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%)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 data55 "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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