Spain, Asturias
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The school is located in Avilés, Asturias, Spain. It is described as an IB World School. It is private, subsidized (concertado) and bilingual. It offers education from early years through Bachillerato.
Education Infantil (from age 3; English from age 2) through Educación Primaria, E.S.O. and Bachillerato, with International Baccalaureate programs at each stage. The Primary and Secondary programs include bilingual instruction with Cambridge University, and there is a Cambridge University examination center on site.
Private, subsidized (concertado) and bilingual.
Spain
Opening hours run from 7:30 to 19:00 (September to July).
A school transport service, organized by the Fundación Docente San Fernando, is available for students who need it. Infant and Primary buses have an adult supervisor on board. Routes include Pravia, Piedras Blancas, Salinas, Coto Carcedo, Los Balagares, Las Vegas, Villalegre, Candás, Luanco and Avilés centro; contact 985 565 745 to arrange the line that suits you.
Application fees
- No published application or enrollment fee amounts are listed on the school's public admissions information.
Tuition fees (by year group / per term)
- The school does not publish a public schedule of tuition amounts by year group or per term on its publicly accessible admissions or general information pages. No specific per-term or per-year tuition figures are available in the school's public materials.
Billing schedule and payment terms
- Ancillary services (for example, occasional use of the school's catering service) are invoiced and appear on the monthly receipt issued at the end of the month. The school states that the cost of such services managed by the Fundación San Fernando is billed on the monthly receipt.
- The site indicates that some service charges (meals, extracurriculars, transport when provided) are managed and billed as separate items rather than embedded in a publicly posted tuition table.
Boarding fees (if applicable)
- Boarding is not offered; the school describes daily schedules and provision of day services (early morning care, full-day hours for infant education, on-site catering) and does not list any residential or boarding provision or boarding fees.
Other costs and fees
- School meals: Menus are published as documents and the catering is run from the school's kitchens; the school confirms the meal service is charged and invoiced monthly, but no per-meal or per-month price is published publicly.
- School books and digital licences: The school uses a digital-books platform (Savia/SM) and provides guidance for digital-book licences; costs for licences or printed books are not listed as specific monetary amounts in the public documents.
- Uniform: A uniform policy and uniform information page exists, but no public price list for uniform items is published.
- Transport: A transport service description is published (school transport information page) but no published fare schedule or per-route cost is posted.
- Extracurricular activities: Activities are listed and described; the school indicates activity services carry fees that are billed, but specific monthly or per-activity prices are not published.
Refund information
- No public fee-refund policy or specific refund amounts/conditions for tuition, enrolment, or ancillary services is published on the school's publicly accessible pages.
Fee payment options
- The publicly accessible pages do not list specific accepted payment methods (credit card, direct debit, bank transfer) or detailed payment instructions for tuition. Ancillary services are described as invoiced on the monthly receipt, but the specific payment channels are not published openly.
Summary of availability of monetary figures
- The school publishes descriptions of services (admissions process, catering/menus, transport, uniform and digital-book procedures) and states how some services are invoiced, but it does not publish application fees, per-term or per-year tuition amounts, boarding fees (not applicable), uniform price lists, transport fares, or a public refund policy on its publicly accessible pages. The public materials that are available and referenced above were used to compile the service-level billing statements in this overview.
San Fernando School in Avilés, Spain, is an IB World School offering Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP), alongside a bilingual English–Castilian framework. Serving ages 0 to 18, the private, subsidized (concertado) school emphasizes language development, inquiry-based learning, and adherence to the IB learner profile. The campus blends a long history (established 1941) with modern facilities: science laboratories, a greenhouse and Nature Classroom, an outdoor Nature Area, and a climate-emphasis project that links learning with entrepreneurial activity. It operates as an Official Cambridge Examination Center and prepares students for Cambridge English and DELF exams. A robust sports program includes about 180 players across 19 teams, and the school is a Google Reference School throughout curricula. Extracurriculars include Chess, Modern Dance and Robotix; core arts and language activities feature a bilingual program, Cambridge English courses, and language exchanges. The school fosters inquiry, collaboration and growth.