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San Cristobal de la Laguna, Spain · Private
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A bilingual private college in San Cristóbal de La Laguna on Tenerife, approved by the education authority of the Canary Islands. The school takes children from the Mayco Nursery through Infantil and primary school up to the fourth year of ESO and builds teaching on two parallel programmes: the official Spanish one and an English one with a large weekly load. English runs from the nursery to the last year of ESO, from the age of three the school announces a full bilingual project with native speakers, and German as a third language starts in Infantil. In primary school physical education, art, science and English are taught in English, and in ESO on average 75 per cent of subjects are taught in English. Since April 2005 the school has held the status of Cambridge International Centre: in ESO pupils can sit IGCSE in English as a second language, Spanish, mathematics, biology and twentieth century history, as well as Trinity College London exams, the Cambridge ICT Starters certificate and Goethe-Institut exams. The school describes itself as a small homely college with about 350 pupils; its home page names more than 400 schoolchildren and more than 30 English-speaking teachers. There are exchanges and trips to England and Germany, clubs and the MaycoBasket basketball section, and an evening language academy for children and adults works at the same school.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 124–4 519 a year
365–400 EUR a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school publishes its prices for the 2026/2027 school year itself. Infantil and primary school: an enrolment fee of 340 euros, 365 euros a month for tuition and 170 euros a month for meals, an annual sum with meals of 5150 euros. ESO: an enrolment fee of 340 euros, 400 euros a month and 170 euros for meals, an annual sum with meals of 5500 euros, which already includes the fees for the international IGCSE, Trinity and Goethe exams. For brothers and sisters: an enrolment fee of 325 euros, 355 euros a month in Infantil and primary school and 390 euros in ESO, meals 165 euros, annual sums of 5000 and 5350 euros each. All 10 monthly payments are compulsory; the year can be paid at once before 1 September.
Admissions Enrolment for the 2026/2027 school year is open; the school invites families to an open day and to a personal meeting with the pedagogical director, where the buildings are shown and the project is explained, and it names no entrance exams or other conditions of admission on the site. Nothing is said separately about admitting children who do not speak Spanish or about admitting foreigners.
Stages and year groups Grades Mayco Nursery - ESO year 4. Mayco Nursery (the school does not name the age of admission), Infantil, primary school and ESO from the first to the fourth year; the school does not run bachillerato. Since April 2005 a Cambridge International Centre: in ESO pupils can sit IGCSE in five subjects.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · 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. 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 →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 pool
·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
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: Three buildings in La Laguna: Mayco I and II and Mayco III, plus a separate nursery. Projectors in all classrooms, digital boards in some primary classrooms, one iPad for two pupils, laptops and a computer room in ESO.
Clubs and activities: Basketball (MaycoBasket) · Drama · Mugendo · Contemporary dance · Chess · Robotics and programming · Drawing and painting · Crafts · Theatre · Music · Dance
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 names more than 30 English-speaking teachers and native speakers in the English programme; nursery staff hold qualifications in early years education, psychomotor development and first aid. The school has a guidance department (Departamento de Orientación). Leadership: director Alicia García Sosa, founders Carmen Sosa Álamo and José Miguel García Salazar, pedagogical director Tona Cabrera.
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 data70 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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