What it costs
Iale publishes its fees, which most schools in this area do not.
Fees are monthly and run from €450 to €840 depending on the stage, for the 2026/27 year.
The uniform price is not published. Nor are exam fees. That is the norm rather than the exception here: of the ten schools we checked, not one publishes what the uniform costs, and eight do not publish exam fees either.
The thing that decides it, and almost nobody writes down
At Iale the amount of English falls as the child gets older. Roughly 70% in Infantil, around 55% in Primaria, and under 30% in Secundaria.
And the IB Diploma — the most expensive year, at the top of the range — is taught entirely in Spanish except for the English subject itself.
For a Spanish family that is the point of the school. For a family arriving from Canada or Ireland with a fourteen-year-old who has never studied in Spanish, it is the single fact that decides whether this school is possible at all, and it is not in any comparison table on the internet.
Who it suits
A family that intends to stay, that wants its children genuinely fluent and inside the Spanish system, and whose children are young enough to get there.
Who it does not
A family with a teenager arriving mid-secondary, or one that needs an English-language education to continue without a break — for a return home, or for a British or American university route. The English hours are going the wrong way for that child at exactly the wrong age.