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Sevilla, Spain · est. 1994 · Private
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Highlands School Sevilla is a private Catholic bilingual school in Montequinto outside Seville. The Legionaries of Christ arrived to found it in June 1992, lessons began in September 1994 with 55 children in a house on the Avenida de la Palmera, the school moved to Montequinto in 1995, the secondary stage opened in 2001 and the bachillerato in 2004. Today it holds more than 1400 pupils and takes them from six months old. The curriculum is the Spanish national one; what is international here is the languages and the certificates rather than a foreign programme: in the first cycle of the early years lessons are entirely in English, after that subjects are taught on the CLIL approach, and the school carries pupils to C1-C2 in English and B1-B2 DELF in French. A pupil who wants to may take an American dual diploma, the Bachillerato Dual Americano, alongside. The school counts the Spanish university entrance examination as its result: an average PAU score of 8.2 out of 10 in 2026, with every leaver passing, and a fifteenth appearance in the hundred best schools in Spain as listed by El Mundo and Forbes. The Montequinto campus is a set of buildings with laboratories, music rooms, multisensory rooms, chapels, conference halls and both covered and open sports areas. Lunch is cooked on site by SODEXO, and the bus runs across Seville, Dos Hermanas and the Aljarafe. There is a morning club from 7:45 and an afternoon one until 18:00.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 349–8 021 a year
385–710 EUR a month
The year is counted as ten payments a year - that is how many the school itself names.
Programmes
Cambridge · National programme
Admits from
6 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The 2026-2027 tariffs come in three parts: an annual matriculation fee, tuition in ten instalments, and an additional annual charge of 300 euros paid in one go, which covers teaching materials, school insurance and educational, religious, sporting and cultural activities. By stage, tuition per instalment: the first early years cycle from six months to two years, 385 euros with lunch included; the second cycle for ages 3-5, 410; primary years 1-3, 525; years 4-6, 520; ESO years 1-2, 620; ESO years 3-4, 475; both years of bachillerato, 710. That comes to between 3850 and 7100 euros a year in tuition. Matriculation is 120 euros in the first early years cycle and 385 euros at the other stages, and it is not refundable; in its general conditions of purchase the school states 385 euros for all stages - it does not resolve the discrepancy and advises checking the figure with admissions. Lunch is separate, in ten instalments: 110 euros per instalment in the second early years cycle, 160 in the primary and secondary school and 65 in the bachillerato; a basket for food brought from home is 39 euros from the second year of primary and 20 euros in the bachillerato. The bus is 162 euros a month for a full route and 110 euros for half of one, with a single journey at 6 euros. The morning and afternoon groups are 27 euros a month each and 37 euros for both. An after-school activity once a week costs about 160 euros a year and twice a week about 370. For large families: from the third child matriculation is free and tuition carries a 30 per cent discount, from the fourth tuition is free, and after-school activities carry a 50 per cent discount from the third enrolled child.
Admissions Admission takes three stages: a first interview of about an hour, at which the school presents its project; a second one with psycho-pedagogical tests, also about an hour, to see how the child learns; then enrolment through the school portal, where the family fills in its details, uploads documents and signs the contract electronically. The place is reserved and the matriculation fee paid through the portal by card, by transfer only by arrangement; the matriculation fee once paid is not refundable, and tuition and services are collected by direct debit on a schedule. Admissions are handled by Blanca Fernández de Córdoba and Esther Márquez, reachable by telephone, WhatsApp or email. The school says nothing about foreign pupils or special conditions for them.
Stages and year groups Grades first early years cycle from 6 months - 2º Bachillerato. The stages run right through: the first early years cycle from six months to two, the second from three to five, then primary, four years of ESO and two years of bachillerato. They did not all open at once: the school started with the youngest classes in 1994, the secondary stage arrived in 2001 and the bachillerato in 2004. The morning club runs from 7:45 and the afternoon one until 18:00.
Address Carretera de Utrera km 4,5, 41089 Montequinto, Sevilla
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeColegios RC · school is part of the networkThe school names not a single Cambridge stage anywhere on its site: it writes only about Cambridge English Assessment certificates, that is about language examinations, while the curriculum it teaches is the Spanish national one. Which Cambridge registration lies behind the register entry cannot be determined from the school's own site.
school 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. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
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.
Colegios RCschool network
Colegios RC is the Regnum Christi network of private Catholic schools in Spain; the network's site is run by the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ. According to the network, it has 7 schools in Spain and more than 7,800 students: in the Community of Madrid (Boadilla del Monte, Pozuelo de Alarcón, La Moraleja), in Barcelona (Esplugues de Llobregat and Sarrià), in Valencia and in Seville. They are Highlands School El Encinar, Highlands School Los Fresnos, Highlands School Barcelona, Highlands School Sevilla, Everest School, Cumbres School and Col·legi Reial Monestir de Santa Isabel. The site gives different figures for the international Regnum Christi network - 139 schools in 18 countries on the home page and "more than 140 schools" on the international page - and we quote both. The network gives no founding year and speaks of "more than 70 years" of experience; its site is colegiosrc.es.
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
Exam results The average score in the 2026 Spanish university entrance examination was 8.2 out of 10, and every leaver passed. On languages in the 2026 cohort: 85 per cent of second-year bachillerato pupils passed Proficiency and 89 per cent gained one or two language certificates; the school dates these figures to 1 July 2026 and credits Regnum Christi. The school calls itself the leader in Seville on the Selectividad in 2010, 2014 and 2023, and in 2026 three of its pupils won the Andalusian Extraordinary Prize for 4º ESO.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The Montequinto campus is built from several buildings: classrooms with technology, separate ICT rooms, laboratories, music rooms, multisensory rooms, halls for conferences and events, and chapels. The sports areas are both covered and open: a football pitch, multi-sport courts, table tennis and basketball. Lunch is cooked in the school's own kitchens by SODEXO, the menus are drawn up by nutritionists, and there are separate menus for children with allergies - gluten, milk protein, egg - as well as a suggested evening menu for home; the quality management system is certified by AENOR and the menus are supervised by the health authority. From the second year of primary children may bring food from home. Transport is run by Rosmat: routes across Seville, Dos Hermanas and the Aljarafe, each bus with a supervisor, and a separate feeder route for the bachillerato on the days when the senior stage finishes before the rest of the school.
Clubs and activities: Chess · Arts and crafts · Public speaking · Music · Literary competition · Recitation competition · Science Day · Mathematics olympiad · Economics olympiad · Physics olympiad · Football · Basketball · Table tennis
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 as a leadership team: director P. José Santandreu, L.C., deputy director Blanca García de Alvear, manager Manuel Mateos, stage coordinators - Sofía González for pre-school, Carmen de Haro for primary, Juan Antonio Jiménez for secondary and the bachillerato - and the heads of sport and extracurricular activities, Pilar Mejías, and of the guidance department, Yvonne González. Support is built on tutoring and personal conversations between tutor and pupil. The school gives neither the number of teachers, nor their qualifications, nor the pupil-teacher 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
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The guidance department gives families support and psycho-pedagogical advice and, with the tutors, matches learning resources to each pupil's needs; personal conversations between tutor and pupil form the core of support. There is a programme of virtues and emotional education and a school for parents. The school refers to the safe environments policy and the criminal risk prevention policy of its Regnum Christi network. It names no security staff, video surveillance or medical room.
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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 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.
The score is counted from 8 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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