← Back to homeLycée Français International de Tenerife Jules Verne
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain · est. 1999 · Private
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Lycée Français International de Tenerife Jules Verne is a private French school in Santa Cruz de Tenerife for children aged three to eighteen, from the first year of nursery to the second year of the bachillerato. Teaching follows the French curriculum in French, with Spanish and English from age three: the school motto is "3 years - 3 languages". The school is recognised by the education ministries of France and Spain, and students receive qualifications of both systems: the Brevet and the Baccalauréat, and the Spanish ESO and bachillerato certificates. At the final stage it runs BachiBac, the dual French-Spanish diploma; its subjects taught in French are taught by civil servants of the French ministry of education. Nine children out of ten, according to the school, arrive without French, and by twelve all are above the French national average; 85 per cent pass Cambridge C1 and 95 per cent DALF C1, and these certificates are included in the fee. The school is secular, without religious teaching and without a uniform; it is open from 7:30 to 17:00 at no extra cost. Fees for 2026-2027 range from 5880 to 6950 euros by stage. The French state anti-bullying programme pHARe is in place, and in secondary school there are student mediators.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $6 643–7 852 a year
5 880–6 950 EUR
Programmes
French programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
French
Languages taught
Spanish, English
About the fees The school publishes its fees for the 2026-2027 school year itself, as a file on its fees page: nursery 5880 euros, the first five years of primary 6040, from the sixth year of primary to the third year of ESO 6880, from the fourth year of ESO to the second year of bachillerato 6950 euros. The fee includes early care from 7:30, supervision after lessons until 17:00, primary school supplies (except textbooks), day trips and outings without an overnight stay, accident insurance and DELF, DALF, Cambridge and DELE certificates.
Admissions Enrolment is open for the current and the next year: the family calls or fills in a form, and the school arranges a personal visit between 9:00 and 17:00, led by the primary school director; after the visit the family is given the enrolment documents. Young children do not need French: nine families out of ten are not French-speaking, and teaching is organised so that a child without French progresses at a normal pace, and there are French classes for parents at the school. The school belongs to the Mission laïque française, which, according to the school, welcomes children of all nationalities, cultures and faiths. BachiBac takes students from this or another French school, as well as those with French at B1 level, high achievement and good reports.
Stages and year groups Grades 1st year of nursery (age 3) - 2nd year of bachillerato (age 18). Nursery from age three, primary school, collège from 6ème (the Spanish sixth year of primary) to seconde (the fourth year of ESO) and BachiBac in 1ère and Terminale, that is the first and second years of bachillerato, in two branches and four options. In the third year of collège students sit the French Brevet exam. Classes run from the first week of September to 30 June, 177 school days: on average seven weeks of study and one or two weeks of rest. The school calls itself a medium-sized school where most students complete the whole path.
Address Calle Pedro Suárez Hernández 5, 38009 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · accreditationMission laïque française · 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
AEFEAgency for French Education Abroad
It runs the network of French schools worldwide, while the accreditation itself, the homologation, is granted by the French education ministry and inspected by French state inspectors. A leaver from a homologated school moves into a school in France without an entrance examination. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
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The state programme of France. A school is homologated by the French ministry of education, and a leaver may move into a school in France without entrance tests. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
What this means for this school. Which year groups of this school are covered by homologation - only the primary ones, or all the way to the final year - is not stated here. The difference matters: it decides whether the school takes a child through to the French baccalaureate or hands them on to another school halfway.
Mission laïque françaiseschool network
Mission laïque française (MLF) is a French non-profit association founded in 1902; its school network is called Réseau mlfmonde. The network gives different figures on its own pages - 108 schools in 38 countries on some, 107 schools in 37 countries on another, with more than 61,000 students in both cases - and we quote both. In Spain the network lists 10 lycées, in Alicante, Murcia, Palma, Reus, Seville, Telde (Gran Canaria), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Valladolid, Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid) and Zaragoza. In a notice dated 21 September 2026, MLF writes that since 1 September 2026 the day-to-day management of its Spanish schools has been entrusted to the association AFLEC-GEE under a management mandate, refers to 9 schools, and says the legal transfer of each will be completed by 31 July 2028 at the latest. The notice does not say which of the ten schools is not among the nine. The network's site is mlfmonde.org.
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Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results According to the school, all its students pass both the French and the Spanish baccalaureate, their average university entrance score is above 12 out of 14, 85 per cent pass Cambridge C1 and 95 per cent DALF C1. The school publishes BachiBac results by year since 2013-2014 on a separate page as image tables.
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
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school stands in a quiet student and artistic quarter of Santa Cruz, opposite the Conservatorio tram stop. The media library opened in 2019: a children's library and a documentation centre for secondary school behind a shared glass wall, books in French, Spanish and English, tablets and Chromebooks, open from 8:00 to 17:00. Each classroom has a teacher's computer, there is a computer room, tablets in primary and laptops in secondary school, and 3D printing. The school speaks of its fine sports facilities, where summer camps are held; there is a vegetable garden. The canteen belongs to the eco-canteen network of the government of the Canary Islands. The school does not mention a school bus.
Clubs and activities (4): Football league · Basketball league · Handball league · Webradio
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
In summer the school's sports facilities host camps run by the school's after-school provider Extraescolares Tenerife: a trilingual camp with swimming for children aged 3-12, an adventure camp with hiking, zip lines, the beach and workshops, futsal and goalkeeper camps with the AD Costa Tenerife club; flexible hours and lunch. The school gives no prices or dates on its pages.
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 does not publish the number of its teachers. It writes that the BachiBac subjects in French are taught by civil servants of the French ministry of education, and that the other teachers are accredited by the government of the Canary Islands and hold French at B2, double degrees, DEA and doctoral degrees. In secondary school there is a school life service of three assistants and a chief education adviser; in the nursery the teacher has an assistant. The primary school director is Julien Lepagney. Classes are small, with work in small groups.
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
Against bullying the school activates the French state pHARe programme at the first suspicion and publishes its protocol "Mi establecimiento se compromete contra el acoso en el colegio". In secondary school eight student mediators help resolve minor conflicts, and the school life service supervises classrooms, corridors and the yard and checks absences; a health and citizenship committee runs sessions on first aid, internet safety and bullying. The school does not separately name a medical room, a psychologist or security staff.
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