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Socrates Educa International School

Spain, Tarragona

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The school at a glance
Instructs in English, Spanish
Fees €0 - 4,500
Ages 1 - 18 years
Pupil numbers 268
Type Co-educational, Co-educational (boarding)
Opened 2012
Bus Service Yes
Academic offering
Curriculum IB (DP), Bespoke Curriculum
Taught languages English, Spanish, Mandarin, German, French
Typical class size 22
Strengths STEM, Languages, Service and Sustainability
Clubs Academic and Intellectual, Cultural and Language, Lifestyle and Wellbeing
Stages Infant/Toddler Care, Early Years, Primary School, Secondary School, Sixth Form
Introduction

Socrates Educa International School is a boarding and day community in Spain serving learners from ages 1 to 18, with on-site residences, host-family options and sports academies. The school offers Cambridge Primary, the International Baccalaureate Diploma, the American Curriculum and the Japanese Curriculum, with progression from P1 to national and international qualifications. Robotics, programming and laboratory work are embedded in teaching, with emphasis on regular discussions, group projects and presentations. Founded as a civic, non-profit initiative, the Socrates Educa Foundation was established in 2007 and opened in 2012. The campus spans 30,000 m2 with over 8,000 m2 of facilities, including laboratories, libraries, a Forum and flexible classrooms. Sustainable features include rainwater irrigation, solar energy and wind power. Outdoor sports cover 3,100 m2, with a multipurpose hall and swimming. The environment is multilingual, with English immersion and Catalan, Spanish and Chinese. Cambridge accreditation as trainer and examiner supports the academic programme.

Carrer Salvador Espriu, s/n, 43840, Tarragona, Spain

The Essentials

Socrates Educa International School has 268 pupils, typical class sizes of 22, instruction in English, Spanish.

Location
Salou, Tarragona, Spain. Salvador Espriu s/n, 43840 Salou - Tarragona

Stages
Nursery and Preschool; Primary; ESO; Baccalaureate; Online School

Type
Boarding school with on-site residence and host-family options; sports academies

Pupil Nationality Mix
Multicultural and multilingual environment with families and students from around the world.

Additional learning support
Support programmes for students requiring extra monitoring; a welcome classroom; intensive refresher courses for foreign/new students; extracurricular support

Country affiliation
Spain

Bus service
Bus routes cover a large area; contracts available per day or per month; buses have supervisors; real-time tracking via BatOnRoute
Diving Deeper

Boarding Arrangements
Boarding is offered in two options: boarding in student residences or boarding with host families. Full-Time Boarding runs Monday to Sunday for the full school year, while Weekly Boarding runs Monday to Friday with weekends at home. Program durations can be termly, half a school year, or a full school year, with the option to complete both the IB and national Baccalaureate years. All academic programs can be paired with extracurricular activities and high-performance sports (academies). Multilingual environment includes English, Chinese and Spanish.

Uniform Requirement
A uniform is required to promote equity and minimize distractions. P1 to P3 wear a tracksuit; P4 to 4th ESO wear the official school uniform; Baccalaureate students do not need uniforms, though a respectful dress code applies. Uniform items are available through the school shop, online and in-store.

Food Options
The Dining Hall has a modern on-site kitchen and dedicated dining rooms for different age groups. Lunch and snacks are provided, with services contractable on a monthly or per-day basis. Special menus (gluten-free, vegetarian) are available, and periodic reports on dining hall use are sent to families; the dining program is overseen by a dietitian.

Governance and Ownership
The school is an initiative of the Socrates Educa Foundation, a private non-profit organization that owns the school. The Foundation's Board of Trustees governs the school.
Fees

Annual tuition at Socrates Educa International School ranges from up to EUR 4,500 for 2026/27.

Application fees

- No fixed one‑time application, registration, or enrollment fee amount is published on the school's public admission pages; the admissions process is described but no numeric application fee is shown.

Tuition fees by year group (per payment and annual equivalent where published)

- General model: Tuition is age‑adapted and billed in 10 equal payments across the school year.

- Nursery and Preschool (published starting point): €450 per payment; billed in 10 equal payments (annual equivalent: €4,500).

- Primary, Secondary (ESO) and Baccalaureate (BAT / IB / BAT+IB): Fees increase progressively with age and vary depending on whether a student follows the local BAT diploma, the IB diploma, or a dual BAT+IB pathway. The school does not publish a detailed per‑grade numeric schedule for primary, secondary, or baccalaureate tuition on its public pages.

- Per‑term note: The school uses 10 equal payments rather than a traditional termly billing schedule; therefore there is no publicly posted traditional ‘‘per term'' table of fees.

Billing schedule and payment terms

- Billing schedule: Tuition is charged in 10 equal payments over the academic year.

- Admissions/registration timing: Enrollment and the admission process are open year‑round from P1 to Baccalaureate; details of documentation and the admission workflow are provided but specific payment‑term contract wording is not published on the public pages.

Boarding fees (if applicable)

- Boarding options: The school offers two accommodation options (student residence and host families) and two programme formats (Full‑Time Boarding and Weekly Boarding). For students aged 12 and above the residence programme can be booked termly, half a school year, or for the full school year.

- Published boarding fees: No specific boarding fee amounts, price tables, or standard boarding packages with prices are published on the boarding pages.

Other costs and optional services

- Material and books: Identified as a one‑off payment per academic year (amount not published).

- Excursions and trips: Approximately three excursions per academic year are noted; end‑of‑year camps and exchange trips occur for some year groups (amounts vary by programme and age).

- Optional services with separate rates: Transport (school bus), canteen, extracurricular activities, and reception/extended care are available as optional services with flexible rates (specific prices are not published).

- Uniforms: Uniform is compulsory from P1 to 4th year of ESO and is sold through the school store (uniform costs are not published).

- Included items: The school states that many curricular and value‑added activities (for example, swimming, a specialised reading/writing programme, coding/robotics training, and certain support services) are included within tuition at different ages; specific line‑item cost breakdowns for these inclusions are not published.

Refund information

- No explicit public refund or fee‑cancellation policy is published in the school's public fee or registration pages. There is no posted numeric refund table or published terms for fee refunds on the publicly accessible pages.

Fee payment options

- Accepted payment methods: The school's public pages do not list specific accepted payment methods (for example, bank transfer, credit card, or direct debit) in a published fees section. The homepage contains an "Access to Alexia" parent portal link for family and administrative access.

Summary of publicly available fee information and limits of published detail

- Publicly published facts: The school publishes the billing model (10 equal payments) and the Nursery/Preschool starting point of €450 per payment. It confirms that fees rise with age and vary by diploma pathway and that a set of optional services and occasional one‑off costs exist.

- Publicly unpublished facts: The school does not publish a detailed, line‑by‑line numeric fee schedule by specific year group (primary grades, ESO grades, or baccalaureate years), no published amounts for boarding, no explicit published application/registration fee amounts, no published refund/cancellation policy with figures, and no published list of accepted payment methods on its public pages.
Academics

Socrates Educa International School teaches IB (DP), Bespoke Curriculum for students aged 1 to 18.

Curriculum
Comprehensive training from P1 to national and international baccalaureate. The school offers National Baccalaureate (LOE), Scientific Baccalaureate, and Social Baccalaureate; it can combine the LOE with the International Baccalaureate or offer the International Baccalaureate exclusively. Robotics, programming and laboratory practices are common activities, and the school emphasizes discussions, group projects and presentations.

Higher Education Progression
Students achieve grades enabling them to choose the university or course they want; enrolment in universities worldwide is noted, and university entrance exams are part of progression.
Wellbeing

English as an Additional Language (EAL)
From P1 to P5, students are totally immersed in English, living the language rather than studying it. Catalan and Spanish are priorities and are introduced in primary school. A fourth language, Chinese, is taught to broaden linguistic fluency. A multicultural environment supports language learning with a large team of teachers, including native speakers and educators with international experience. The school is accredited as a trainer and examiner by the University of Cambridge.

Mental Wellbeing
The school supports mental wellbeing by maintaining routines and opportunities for activity and peer connection, even during disruptions. This helps preserve student wellbeing alongside academic progress.
Parent Experience

History
A group of renowned people from Camp de Tarragona and southern Catalonia discussed how culture and knowledge were progressing and identified the need for an innovative international school. Socrates Educa International School was launched as a civic initiative, a non-profit project that established the Socrates Educa Foundation in 2007 to oversee founding and governance. The building's first stone was laid in 2011, and the school opened its doors on 17 September 2012. The Socrates Educa® International School model has proved to be a success, with very good results obtained over the years.

Community
The school acts as a pedagogical and social benchmark for the Socrates Educa® International School community and for society in general. It holds many events for its community that are open to the region, students, families, as well as teachers from other schools. The school runs annual pedagogical workshops to foster debate and the exchange of good educational ideas and practices with lecturers and teachers from around the world, and every two years it awards the Josep M. Bach International Education Award for projects with international social and educational impact; prize winners have included Teach for All. The university fair and orientation week provide talks and experiences to help students with admissions and career planning, with alumni sharing insights from university and professional life. Patronage Night is an annual event to present social and educational initiatives, thank donors, and celebrate scholarships and awards.

Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Parent school engages families as lifelong learning partners from the first inquiry through the child's years at Socrates Educa® International School. Families have opportunities and mechanisms to communicate with the school and its community, including staff and other families. During initial monitoring and daily life at school, families are invited to presentation meetings and have tutor meetings one-to-one. The support is extended to other areas throughout the school year. Various events are organized, including ICT talks, nutrition talks, talks by the school's Special Needs Support Department, academic guidance talks for ESO and BAT/IB, talks to support younger students, direct access to teaching staff, termly reviews and tutorials, and pedagogical days.
Facilities

Facilities Overview
The school is designed to hold up to 1,200 students on 30,000 m2 of grounds and more than 8,000 m2 of facilities. Facilities include classrooms, a canteen and kitchen areas, a library, study rooms, a gym, the Forum, a versatile function room, the office and reception area, workshops, music laboratories, art, robotics, technology, biology, physics and chemistry laboratories, and indoor and outdoor sports areas, gardens and vegetable patches. The building features sustainability measures including rainwater collection to irrigate gardens and vegetable patches; façade glass and interior walls provide abundant natural light and warmth in winter; smart blinds track the sun to provide shade in summer; and windows at different heights enable healthy ventilation. Indoor spaces are flexible and outdoor spaces such as gardens and play areas have aesthetic and pedagogical functions. The school operates as an educational space with safety measures during Covid-19, including ventilation protocols and use of outdoor spaces.

Sports Facilities
The school has 3,100 m2 of outdoor sports area and a multipurpose covered Sports Hall with complementary services. Students have specialist teachers in sports and psychomotor skills at all ages, and swimming lessons in the early years of Primary are included in Physical Education within the timetable and fees. The school participates in local championships such as the Schools Olympics and hosts sporting events such as the Socrates Educa® International School Mile. The Sports Club promotes volleyball, football and basketball as team sports, and judo, yoga, chess and skating as individual sports. Sports activities are available to students, parents and staff alike.

Academic Facilities
The educational model comes to life in spaces and buildings that foster diverse and creative teaching. The Forum space serves as a meeting point for students, teachers and families, and there are spaces for sports, music and technology, laboratories and workshops. The classrooms are well soundproofed, ventilated and bright, with large windows that provide natural light. The design of classrooms, corridors, inner courtyards and gardens supports flexible and varied teaching throughout the year and uses the region's good weather. The school is a pioneer in learning technologies, with robotics and computer programming integrated into teaching, and classrooms equipped with cutting-edge technology and capable staff.

Extra Curricular Facilities
During the school year, infants from P3 and members of the Socrates Educa community can participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities during midday and after school. Activities are organized into Experiences: Music Experience, Sport Experience, Language & Talent Experience, STEM & Lab Experience, Art Experience and other topics outside the academic sphere. The Extracurricular Activities service also arranges activities on arrival of new students and manages language courses and sports for adults. Activities run termly with midday and/or after-school timetables and require termly registration and payment.
Extra-Curricular Activities

Academic & Intellectual
Comprehensive training from P1 to national and international baccalaureate. The school is accredited by the University of Cambridge as a trainer and examiner. It provides a multilingual academic environment with English immersion and instruction in Catalan, Spanish, and Chinese.

Arts & Creative
Extracurricular activities include Experiences: Music, Sport, Language & Talent, STEM & Lab, and Art, plus other topics outside the academic sphere. Activities run midday and/or after school for participants aged 3 to 18, and are open to families and external students.

Cultural & Language
From the outset, students become fluent in four languages: English through immersion in P1–P5, Catalan and Spanish in primary, and Chinese as a fourth language. The environment is multicultural and multilingual with native-speaking teachers and international experience. The school is Cambridge-accredited as a trainer and examiner.

Social & Hobbies
Infants from P3 and students up to 18 years old (as well as families and external students) can participate in regular extracurricular activities. Activities run at midday and/or after school with termly registration and payment. The programme includes Music, Sports, Language & Talent, STEM & Lab, and Art experiences, and other topics outside the academic curriculum.

Community & Service
The school runs a scholarships and grants programme to foster equality in education and social cohesion. The programme offers grants for specific situations and needs, discounts for large families, and special funding plans. Scholarships and awards are given annually based on academic merit and effort, and staff may also receive awards.

Leadership & Professional
Alumni participate in workshops to talk to BAT/IB students and assist with career orientation, reflecting ongoing engagement with current students. The school maintains close ties with alumni and collects feedback to inform educational improvements.

Lifestyle & Wellbeing
Physical activity and sport form a core part of the educational process. The school has extensive facilities, including 3,100 m2 of outdoor space and a multipurpose Sports Hall, with swimming lessons in early Primary. The Dining Hall provides a healthy, varied diet with an on-site kitchen and special menus (gluten-free, vegetarian), with periodic reporting to families. Sustainability is a core value, with solar energy, rainwater irrigation, a wind turbine, waste separation, and composting; the building has the highest sustainability rating as a Green Schools Network member.
Languages

Language Provision
The school teaches English, Catalan, Spanish, and Chinese. English is the immersive language; Catalan and Spanish are priorities and introduced in primary. Chinese is introduced in primary to develop fluency in four languages.

Bilingual Teaching
The school uses English as the immersive language for core years, with students from P1 to P5 living the language rather than studying it. Catalan and Spanish are priorities and are introduced in primary. Chinese is taught as a fourth language to ensure fluency in world's most widely spoken languages.

Immersion Programs
English immersion is central from early years, in a multicultural environment with teachers from diverse backgrounds, including native speakers. The school maintains a large team of highly qualified teachers with international experience. The school is accredited as a trainer and examiner by the University of Cambridge.
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Admissions

Admissions
1. Attend an information session or presentation/open days. The school invites you to visit the school to see firsthand everything your children can enjoy while attending the Socrates Educa International School. Presentation days and open days are held, and virtual interviews and personalised visits are offered for those who cannot visit in person.

2. Following the information session and after filling out a short questionnaire, the admission process begins. You will be able to enroll after this step. The school will share and list all the signed documentation you need to submit. Admission becomes effective once approved by the Enrolment Committee.

3. The registration process is open all year round, from P1 to BAT/IB. You can also fill out the Visit Form to request a visit/interview. This provides flexibility for families.

4. You can also fill out the Visit Form to request a visit/interview. It enables you to arrange a visit or interview. This option is available for families seeking a personal introduction before enrolling. The registration process is open year-round.

Scholarships
The school has a scholarships and grants programme. It includes grants for specific situations and needs, discounts for large families, and for families facing difficulties. Scholarships and awards are given annually to students who excel in specific fields based on merit and effort, and are also awarded to teaching staff. For more information, contact the school secretary or review the attached letter.
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