First: it is the school everyone in town still calls Rivas Luna
Colegio Rivas Luna and Novaschool L'Eliana are the same school. Novaschool bought it in 2023, and the Generalitat's register now carries only the new name — searching the register for "Rivas Luna" returns nothing at all, across all 3,844 centres in the Comunitat. Same registered code, same phone number on the town hall's own listing.
So if a neighbour tells you about Rivas Luna and you cannot find it anywhere official, this is why. And note that the old site, rivasluna.org, is dead: an empty directory, even though the ayuntamiento still links to it.
The name says one thing, the registry says another
Novaschool L'Eliana is concertado. The Generalitat's own school registry classifies it that way — publicly funded, with its places allocated through the statutory admission round.
This is the opposite mistake to the one families make about Colegio Helios in the same town. Helios sounds concertado to an English speaker and is private. This one sounds private, or international, and is not.
And the difference is not a detail. It changes the process, the cost and the language of your child's week.
What concertado means, in the three ways it matters
Admissions. A concertado place is not sold, it is allocated. You apply in the statutory round, which opens once a year in spring, and you are scored on the baremo — proximity to the school, siblings already enrolled, family circumstances. A private school can find you a place in November. This one cannot: if you miss the round, you wait a year.
Cost. Tuition is publicly funded. Families pay for services outside the curriculum — lunch, transport, extracurriculars, and in most concertados a voluntary contribution. That is a fraction of a private fee, and it is the reason a concertado place is worth planning a year ahead for.
Language. This is the one that decides it for most of our families. Valencian is obligatory here and runs between 26% and 43% of teaching hours. Not as a subject: as the language a large part of the week is taught in.
For a five-year-old that is an advantage and it works. For a thirteen-year-old arriving from Toronto with no Spanish, it is two new languages at once, in the year the curriculum stops waiting for anyone.
The step at sixteen that nobody mentions
Infantil, Primaria and ESO are concertado here. Bachillerato is not. The ayuntamiento says so plainly.
That means the cost of this school changes at sixteen, in the two years that decide university. A family that budgets on the concertado years and plans to stay through Bachillerato is budgeting for a different school than the one it will be paying for.
What it costs
It does not publish a fee schedule, which is normal for a concertado: there is no tuition to publish for the funded years. What there is — the lunch, the bus, the extracurriculars, the contribution, and then Bachillerato — you have to ask for. Its own domain returns a 403 and there is not a single capture of it in the web archive, so there is nothing to read even historically.
Who it suits
A family that has decided to stay, whose children are young enough to absorb Valencian and Spanish together, and that is planning far enough ahead to enter through the statutory round.
Who it does not
A family arriving mid-year, one with a teenager who has no Spanish, or one that may return home and needs the education to keep working when it does.