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Tavernes Blanques, Spain · est. 2012 · Private
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Valencia Montessori School is a private Montessori school in Tavernes Blanques near Valencia, founded in 2012 by Sonia Mocholí. It works on the principles of the Association Montessori Internationale and at the same time as an American school following the Common Core standards, and it teaches Spanish and Valencian under the programme of the Valencian education ministry. The stages run as Montessori environments: the Infant Community from one and a half to three - the only bilingual one - then the Children's House from three to six, Elementary from six to twelve and the Community of Adolescents from twelve to sixteen; from the Children's House the main language is English, and Spanish and Valencian are taught as subjects from the first grade. The school day runs from 8:45 to 16:30, with lunch and two snacks. The school's teachers and Montessori guides come from many countries, from the United States to Hungary, Russia and Estonia, and everyone who works with the children, except the teachers of Spanish and Valencian, speaks to them in English. The school's distinctive feature is food and ecology: it was chosen as the headquarters of the Slow Food convivium of the Valencian Community, its chef Juan Llorca has cooked daily since 2012 from local, seasonal and organic produce without processed food, sugar or dairy, the school belongs to Eco-Schools and keeps a food forest, gardens, compost and a grey water system. There are some fifteen after-school clubs, from judo and robotics to choir and forest school, and in spring and summer the school runs its own camps, open to children from other schools too.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 383–10 281 a year
742–910 EUR a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Admits from
18 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Spanish, Catalan
Summer camp
Yes, open to all
About the fees The 2026/2027 fee is stated per month and covers education and meals: the Infant Community from eighteen months to three years 742 euros, the Children's House from three to six 742 euros, Elementary from six to twelve 826 euros, the Community of Adolescents from twelve to sixteen - middle school 899 euros and high school 910 euros. The school does not say how many months the school year has. Discounts: 25 per cent off the tuition fee and 8 per cent off the education fee for siblings, 3 per cent for a single annual payment. Fees and childcare are separate.
Admissions The school takes children from abroad: it writes that local families help families who have moved from other countries to settle in, its teachers come from all over the world, and teaching is in English. Admission goes like this: getting to know the school and a tour, an application with documents, a review of about four weeks, then the offer of a place or the waiting list if classes are full, and a non-refundable enrolment fee. The school admits families who share the Montessori approach and expects the child to complete the full cycle of a stage, usually three years, and parents to take part in school life. English is not required for the nursery and Children's House, from one and a half to five; for primary school the child should know some English, and for the upper primary grades English at an advanced level, with support through the EAL programme. For the first to third grades language is checked by a classroom visit or an online meeting, a language game and a writing sample, and from the fourth grade an entrance test based on the American Common Core standard is added. New pupils are not taken into the sixth grade.
Stages and year groups Grades Infant Community from 18 months - Community of Adolescents, to age 16. The stages: the Infant Community from one and a half to three, the Children's House from three to six, Lower Elementary from six to nine (grades 1-3), Upper Elementary from nine to twelve (grades 4-6), the Community of Adolescents from twelve to sixteen, on the Common Core standards from the seventh to the tenth grade. The school day at every stage runs from 8:45 to 16:30. A stage cycle usually lasts three years, and the school does not take new pupils into the sixth grade. Separately, on Saturday mornings, the VMS Parent and Infant programme runs for children from six to sixteen months together with their parents. The school promises to open its own upper stage through to graduation in the coming years.
Address Av. del Rei en Jaume, 32, Rascanya, 46016 Tavernes Blanques, Valencia
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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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 transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school's new premises in Tavernes Blanques opened recently and were built on bioconstruction principles: bioclimatic design, recycled materials and a water filtration system. Around them are a food forest, gardens, compost and a grey water system, and the school belongs to Eco-Schools. Its own kitchen cooks a morning snack, lunch and an afternoon snack every day. The school bus runs within the city of Valencia if a minimum number of children sign up.
Clubs and activities: Art & Architecture Lab · Theatre and public speaking · Judo · Upcycle · Creative dance · Robotics · Chess · Swimming · Yoga · English · Music · Choir · Guitar · Rugby · Forest School · Basketball
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp and takes children from outside as well
The school runs its summer camp itself, with its own team and on Montessori principles, from 29 June to 24 July 2026, for two or four weeks, at Alquería El Machistre in Alboraya. The day runs from 9:00 to 15:30, with morning care from 8:00 and aftercare until 16:30. It takes children from one and a half to fourteen in groups, both its own pupils and others. The programme includes nature, water, animals, creative workshops and excursions, and a week of surfing for the primary and adolescent stages; there is a bus. The price is from 350 euros for the school's pupils and from 395 for others, and the booking is a non-refundable 100 euros. In spring the school runs a separate spring camp.
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 no number of teachers and no child-adult ratio. It employs teachers trained in American standards and Montessori guides with AMI diplomas; the staff, the school says, come from all over the world, for example from the United States, Hungary, Russia and Estonia, and everyone who works with the children, except the teachers of Spanish and Valencian, speaks English. The school runs AMI training itself and takes on trainees and volunteers. The school's chef Juan Llorca has worked at the school since 2012 and runs The Wholesome Kitchen cookery school for adults.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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