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Jávea, Spain · Private
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Xàbia International College is a private international co-educational school in Jávea on the Costa Blanca, in its own words the only private international school in the town. It takes children from the age of 2, from the Pre-Nursery group, and takes them to Year 13, that is to the age of 18. The basis is the British National Curriculum at every stage: Early Years, primary KS1 and KS2, secondary KS3 and KS4 with IGCSE exams, and Sixth Form with A-Level. In parallel pupils can follow the Spanish curriculum and obtain the ESO and Bachillerato certificates, for which they add Spanish language, Valencian and social sciences. Lessons are in English; Spanish is taught by native speakers from kindergarten, and French and German are added in secondary school. There are more than 20 nationalities in the school. The school belongs to the international group Affinitas Education. The class of 2025 passed A-Level with no failures: 40 per cent of grades A* and A, 81 per cent from A* to C. The school publishes its fees itself, monthly in euros. In 2026 the newspaper El Mundo included the school in its list of the 100 best schools in Spain, in the international category.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $7 004–17 556 a year
620–1 554 EUR a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
Cambridge · A-Level · Pearson Edexcel
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Spanish, French, German, Catalan
About the fees The school publishes its 2026-2027 fees itself, monthly from September to June, with school materials included: Pre-Nursery - 620 euros a month, Nursery and Reception - 756, Years 1-2 - 966, Years 3-6 - 1003, Year 7 - 1239, Years 8-9 - 1449, Years 10-11 (GCSE) - 1549, Years 12-13 (A-Level) - 1554 euros a month. Discounts: 15 per cent for the third child and beyond, 5 per cent for paying the year before 30 June.
Admissions The school accepts children of all nationalities and cultures, with pupils from more than 20 countries, and for registration accepts a passport, NIE or DNI. Admission has four steps: an enquiry through the form, a visit with a meeting with the director and the heads of stages, a formal offer of a place after availability is checked, and a registration form with a copy of the parent's identification and the child's latest school documents. New pupils, the school says, are taken throughout the year. The school names no entrance exams and no language requirements.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-Nursery (age 2) - Year 13 (age 18). Stages: Early Years (Pre-Nursery, Nursery, Reception, ages 2-5) on the British Foundation Stage programme, primary KS1 and KS2 (ages 5-11), secondary KS3 (Years 7-9) and KS4 (Years 10-11) with IGCSE exams, Sixth Form KS5 (Years 12-13) with A-Level. In parallel there is a Spanish track: for the ESO certificate pupils study Spanish language, geography, history and Valencian, and in Years 12-13 they can take the Bachillerato alongside A-Level and obtain a dual qualification. The school calls its classes small but gives no number.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · A-Level · authorised programmePearson · authorised programmeAffinitas Education · 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
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: A-Level (ages 16-18). 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 the badge means for this school. 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 entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which Pearson qualifications this school is approved for is not stated here.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Affinitas Educationschool network
Affinitas Education is an international group of private schools; its site gives neither a founding year nor an owner. The group gives different school counts on its own pages - "30 international schools" in the text, "30+" in a counter and 25 schools in the catalogue on the same page - and we quote all three: choosing for a group which of its own numbers is correct is not something we do. On the same page the group cites more than 20,000 students, 7 countries and 3 continents; its catalogue includes schools in Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United States, Mexico and Brazil. In Spain there are six schools: in Seville, Madrid, Málaga, Xàbia (Alicante province) and two in the province of Valencia. The group's site is affinitasedu.com.
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 Class of 2025 at A-Level: everyone passed, 40 per cent of grades A* and A, 81 per cent of grades from A* to C. The school does not publish IGCSE results.
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: Playground
Campus: Two campuses in Jávea. Kindergarten, primary and Year 7 are at Calle Lago Victoria 3-5, in a building opened in September 2024: bright classrooms and creative outdoor play areas. Secondary and Sixth Form are at Carrer Cantallops 37, on a 2020 campus with a dedicated Sixth Form Centre, study zones, laboratories and spaces for sport and the arts. Lunches are prepared by Thomas Franks. Buses run from Jávea, Denia, Calpe, Benissa, Moraira, Pedreguer, Gata de Gorgos, La Xara and Ondara, and a shuttle runs between the campuses.
Clubs and activities: Horse riding · Artistic gymnastics · Rhythmic gymnastics · Atletikids · Science club · Self-defence for girls · Chess · Board games · Roller hockey · Basketball · Mini tennis · Surfing · Rowing · Sailing · Megabots Robotics · Bytebots · Lego · Singing · Piano · Guitar · Dance · Circus · Drawing · Painting · Jewellery making · Yoga · Karate · Football
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The Fun Express summer camp runs on the kindergarten and primary campus from 6 to 31 July 2026, in weekly blocks, for children aged 3 to 12: sport, art, crafts, cooking, trips and English through play. It costs from 270 euros a week, lunch 40 euros a week; pupils of the school get a 10 per cent discount. There is also an Easter 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 does not publish the number of its teachers. In its words they are experienced subject specialists, Spanish is taught by native speakers and classes are small; the school calls its staff turnover low. Recruitment checks identity, qualifications, references, background and social media.
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 training
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school runs the Affinitas Culture of Care programme: policies on child protection, anti-bullying and behaviour, a staff code of conduct, health and safety and first aid, and digital safety. Staff receive regular training, and recruitment follows safer recruitment rules with background checks. Relationships and sex education, recognising unsafe situations and digital safety are built into lessons. There is a complaints channel. The school names no CCTV, no security guard and no nurse.
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%)82 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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 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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