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Estoril, Portugal · est. 2003 · Private
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The Estoril site of the Prime School network, which the school also calls the International Anglo-American School, stands in Alapraia and takes a child from 3 to 18 along a single Cambridge International pathway: early years, primary Grades 1 to 6, lower secondary Grades 7 to 9, upper secondary with IGCSE in Grades 10 and 11 and A Level in Grades 12 and 13. The network was founded in 2003 and remains independently led in Portugal rather than belonging to a global education group; children of more than 70 nationalities attend. Lessons at the site are in English, with Portuguese in the timetable every day; the network's bilingual English and Portuguese programme is at its Sintra site. Boarding is kept only at the Lisbon site, for children from 13 to 18, so the Estoril site is a full-day school without residence. Tuition for the 2026-2027 school year is the same at all three sites and runs from 11285 euros in kindergarten to 22160 euros in Grade 13; it is paid in 3 instalments, and paying the whole sum by the end of the summer takes 3 percent off. Of the A Level leavers of 2024, 95 in 100 went to their first-choice university, and among its leavers' universities the school names Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics and Imperial College London and speaks of more than 30 countries. The school runs a summer camp and takes pupils on Erasmus+ exchanges.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $13 110–25 743 a year
11 285–22 160 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · Pearson Edexcel
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Portuguese
About the fees Tuition for the 2026-2027 school year, the same at the Lisbon, Estoril and Sintra sites: kindergarten 11285 euros, Grade 1 12590, Grade 2 14275, Grades 3 to 6 from 14805 to 15465, Grades 7 to 9 from 15955 to 17480, Grades 10 and 11 from 18550 to 20910, Grades 12 and 13 from 21945 to 22160 euros. Tuition is paid in 3 instalments; paying the whole sum by the end of the summer takes 3 percent off. Boarding at the Lisbon site costs 22000 euros a year on top of tuition.
Admissions The school admits children from abroad: children of more than 70 nationalities attend, and it helps relocating families settle in. An application costs 850 euros and is made to one of the network's three sites; on first enrolment a family pays a one-off 3800 euros. Boarding is available only at the Lisbon site and only from 13 to 18. The school sets no compulsory language threshold on its open pages, and keeps Portuguese in the timetable daily.
Stages and year groups Grades Early Years, Primary 1-6, Lower Secondary 7-9, IGCSE 10-11, A Level 12-13. An early years stage from 3, primary Grades 1 to 6, lower secondary Grades 7 to 9, IGCSE in Grades 10 and 11, A Level in Grades 12 and 13; on the earlier version of its site the school described the stages as kindergarten from 3 to 4, primary from 5 to 10, lower secondary from 11 to 13, IGCSE from 14 to 15 and A Level from 16 to 17.
Address Rua Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Alapraia, 2765-043 Estoril
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmePearson · authorised programmeThe group names BTEC and Higher National Diploma qualifications, delivered through its own Prime Technical Institute. The school is not in the official Pearson registry: the Portuguese list was swept in full on 27.09.2026 and agreed with the registry's own counter. The record therefore stands on the school's own word and does not count towards the score.
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. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →PearsonPearson Edexcel, a British exam board
It gives a school approved centre status: that means Pearson exams can be sat in the school itself. What is checked is the premises, the equipment, the secure storage of papers and the presence of trained invigilators.
What this status would mean. The school can run Pearson exams on its own premises. The status says nothing about teaching, about results or about the school itself: any school able to run an exam securely holds it. The school is not in the organisation's register: the status comes from the school's own words. Which Pearson qualifications this school is approved for is not stated here.
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Where leavers go: University of Oxford · University of Cambridge · London School of Economics · Imperial College London
Of the A Level leavers of 2024, 95 in 100 went to their first-choice university; the school says its leavers study at universities in more than 30 countries.
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 Estoril site holds a science laboratory, a computing and ICT suite, a canteen, an outdoor multi-sports court and an outdoor social area, as well as a professional flight simulator, which the school calls the only one in a school in the country. A 40-foot school boat sails with pupils of the Estoril and Lisbon sites. A free school bus runs between the Estoril and Sintra sites.
Clubs and activities: Theatre · Music · Art · Sports tournaments · Sciences · Erasmus+ · Elite Programme
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data70 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 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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