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You pick the school. Then you pick the town.

Nobody moves to L’Eliana and then looks for a school. Each of these pages covers the schools in that town, what its own town hall asks for when you register, and what it costs to live there.

Where the towns sit around Valencia A schematic showing each town by direction from central Valencia and by drive time: an inner ring at about fifteen minutes, a middle ring at twenty to twenty-five, and an outer ring at about thirty-five. 15 min 25 min 35 min Mediterranean Bétera 1 school Burjassot 1 school Godella 1 school L'Eliana 3 schools Llíria no school page yet Paterna, La Cañada 1 school Puçol 2 schools Riba-roja de Túria 2 schools Rocafort 1 school Torrent 1 school Valencia city 17 schools
Schematic, not to scale. Each town is placed by its direction from the centre and by how long the drive in actually takes, because that is the number that decides a school run. Distances on the page are not distances on the ground. Filled dots are towns with a school page.
Bétera

About 25 minutes to central Valencia by car, or 40 by metro on line 1.

Houses with a plot commonly listed between €1,100 and €1,900 a month, with the golf urbanisations above that.

Burjassot

About 15 minutes to central Valencia by car, or 20 by metro on lines 1, 2 and 7.

Flats commonly listed between €700 and €1,200 a month; houses with a plot above that.

Godella

About 15 minutes to central Valencia by car, or 20 by metro on lines 1 and 2.

Houses commonly listed between €1,000 and €1,700 a month; flats below that.

Llíria

About 35 minutes to central Valencia by car, or 50 by metro on line 1.

Houses commonly listed between €900 and €1,500 a month, below the belt closer to the city.

Puçol

About 25 minutes to central Valencia by car, or 30 by Cercanías on the C-6 line.

Family houses commonly listed between €1,000 and €1,800 a month, with the beach urbanisations at the top of that.

Torrent

About 20 minutes to central Valencia by car, or 25 by metro on lines 1 and 2.

Family houses in El Vedat commonly listed between €1,100 and €2,000 a month; flats in the town centre well below that.

Valencia city

You are in it. Metro, tram and bus across the city; most families here do not need a car.

Family flats in Russafa and El Cabanyal commonly listed between €1,200 and €2,200 a month.