What each school costs, and who it is actually for.

A North American family that needs its children's transcript to keep working when they go home, or one aiming at a US university without an English-language break.

A family landing in October with a sixteen or seventeen-year-old and nowhere to put them — this is the one door in these districts still open once the official calendar has closed.

A family that wants a British education without leaving the city — no school run out to the belt, and a child who can eventually get themselves to school.

A family whose child was born in 2021 or 2022, or one prepared to sit on a list, that wants a British school in a village rather than a town.

A family that wants an uninterrupted British education in the largest and best-known international school north of Valencia, and can plan a year or more ahead for a place.

A family with German in it, or one prepared to put a child through a year of free intensive German before starting — and one that can apply by 1 February for the following September.

A family staying long term, committed to the Spanish system, that wants a concertado place in Riba-roja and is prepared to get its information by phone rather than online.

A family that has decided to raise its children inside the Spanish system, in a small school where the staff know each child, and that is prepared to ask for the fees rather than read them.

A family that does not want a religious school and needs long days covered — this is the most completely priced wraparound care of any concertado we checked.

A family that wants a British and IB route inside La Cañada itself, close enough that the school run is not a commute, and that is prepared to ask for the fees.

A family that wants a British education at the lower end of what these schools cost around Valencia, and that wants to know the whole bill before it signs.

A family committed to the Spanish system and looking for the least expensive private option in the belt — as long as it has budgeted for the fee that only foreign families pay.

A family that wants a real answer about money and language before it visits, and a teenager who might end up in a trade rather than at university — this is the only school here that keeps both doors open on one site.

A family living in or near the old town that wants Cambridge exams taken in the child's own school and an American diploma on top of the Spanish one, without paying private-school fees.

A family that wants its children to come out of school speaking Valencian, in the Cabanyal, and that does not need anyone at the school gate before nine.

A family that wants its children fluent in Spanish and settled in the Spanish system, not a family that needs an English-language education to continue.

A family that wants a large Catholic school in Extramurs from three to eighteen and understands that the classroom runs in Spanish, with English reinforced rather than used.

A family living south-west of the centre that wants the most English any concertado in the city declares at secondary, and that is prepared to move the child at sixteen.

A family that wants a British examination route — IGCSE and A Levels — without leaving the Valencia area, and is prepared to ask for the fees.

A family in Russafa that wants a non-religious school and can live with Valencian at the same weight as Spanish from year 1 of Primaria.

A family that wants its children in the Spanish system with a strong English start, in the largest school campus in the northern belt, and is prepared to ask for the fees.

A family that has committed to the Spanish system, wants the far lower cost of a concertado place, and is ready for its children to be taught a large part of the week in Valencian.

A family that wants to stay in the Cabanyal and Grao side of the city all the way to eighteen without going private — this is the only concertado there that reaches Bachillerato.

A family that wants a large, conventional Spanish school with a big sixth form, and that will pick up the phone to ask what the annual voluntary contribution costs.

A family staying long term that wants one school from three to eighteen in the city, and that is prepared to ask for every figure because none of them is published.

A family in Russafa or L'Eixample that wants a small school — one class per year in Infantil — and a family whose child has hearing loss, which is what this school was built for.

A family arriving for the start of Infantil, of ESO or of Bachillerato — those are the three doors that are actually open — that wants the largest sixth form in the city's concertado sector.

A family whose children are 4, 11 or 15 next September, and one that wants a school where the base language is Spanish and the register can prove it.

A family staying long term that wants one school from six to eighteen, a Cambridge route, and a concertado's cost — and that is prepared to ask for the Bachillerato fee in person.

A family that wants a British education close to the city rather than out in the belt, and that wants to know what the fee will do over five years before it signs.