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San José de Calasanz (Escolapios)

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

Curriculum
Spanish national curriculum. Concertado, Piarist. Infantil to Bachillerato
Ages
3 to 18
Language of teaching
Published subject by subject. Spanish is the declared base language. German is the second foreign language from year 1 of ESO
Published fees
Not published by the school

Figures checked against the school’s own published source on 3 September 2026. School website.

How much of the week is taught in which language

These are the proportions the school itself declares to the Generalitat’s register, stage by stage. Useful, and better than a brochure — but read them knowing what they are.

  • Bachillerato: valenciano 32%, castellano 58%, ingles 23%

Three things to know before you rely on these. The law requires the proportions to cover 100% of curriculum time, and across the whole register only about one row in seven actually does — in secondary the gap runs to tens of points. It is the school that approves its own figure; the administration supervises afterwards, and does not publish what it finds. And the register still labels this data under the 2018 language act, which was repealed in June 2024 and replaced for every stage from 2025-26.

So treat it as what the school has told the register, not as what happens in the classroom. Ask for the school’s Plan Lingüístico de Centro, by stage, and compare. Centre 46011065, checked 3 September 2026.

The school publishes its own vacancies, and they are the most honest thing on the site

Almost no school in Valencia publishes how many places it actually has. This one does, for 2026-27:

Year group Initial vacancies
1º Infantil (3 years) 75
2º and 3º Infantil 0
Every year of Primaria, 1 to 6 0
1º ESO 35
2º, 3º and 4º ESO 0
1º Bachillerato, Sciences 105
1º Bachillerato, Humanities 70
2º Bachillerato 5 and 5

Read plainly: the doors are three years old, the first year of ESO, and the first year of Bachillerato. There is nothing in Primaria and nothing in the middle of secondary. A family landing in March with an eight-year-old is not going to get in here, and the school is telling you that before you call.

That is the same pattern we found at San Pedro Pascual, and it is two schools out of two. It is also why the year each child would enter matters more than the school's reputation.

The trap at sixteen

The school publishes its language allocation by subject rather than by percentage, and one line matters enormously to an arriving teenager. In Bachillerato, taught in Valencian: Valencià, Filosofia, Física i Química I, Història del món contemporani, Història d'Espanya and Història de la filosofia. In English: English and PE.

A pupil arriving into Bachillerato would meet Philosophy, History of Spain and Contemporary World History in Valencian. The register puts that stage at 32% Valencian, 58% Spanish, 23% English.

Lower down it is gentler. The school states the "plurilingual programme, with Spanish as the base language" in Infantil and Primaria. In ESO, Valencian carries Geography and History, Music, Technology and Valencian; English carries English, PE and, depending on the year, Art and Technology. German runs as a second foreign language from year 1 of ESO, and the school hosts the A2 German and English exams on site — 27 and 28 April 2026, with registration 16 to 20 February.

There is a Bachillerato Dual (American High School Diploma, online) from year 3 of ESO. It is not an IB school and it is not a Cambridge exam centre.

Size

The register authorises 9 units and 225 places in Infantil, 18 and 450 in Primaria, 16 and 477 in ESO, and 12 units with 414 places in Bachillerato — the largest sixth form of any school in this survey.

What it costs

Nothing is published. Not one figure anywhere on the site. No registration, no tuition, no voluntary contribution or foundation fee, no complementary activities, no association fee, no canteen, no morning care, no uniform, no materials, no insurance.

What exists, unpriced: canteen with Ausolan and an own kitchen, with a daily ticket bought from the office before 11:00, a monthly Monday-to-Friday option for every stage, a Monday-to-Thursday option for Infantil and Primaria, and a Tuesday-and-Thursday monthly option in ESO; morning care from Infantil to year 6, price "ask at the office"; uniform through an outside shop; book lists and the regional Xarxa Llibres scheme. No school transport. The parents' association funds canteen grants covering "90% of the amount not covered by the Conselleria" — with no amount.

The voluntary contribution is a phone call: [email protected], 96 369 07 00, 08:45–12:30 and Tuesdays 16:00–17:00.

Admission

Online through ADMINOVA with centre code 46011065; a DNI or NIE is enough. Published 2026-27 calendar: Infantil and Primaria 7–18 May (final lists 18 June, enrolment 18 June to 2 July); ESO and Bachillerato 21 May to 1 June (final lists 2 July and 9 July respectively). Points: a sibling already enrolled is worth 15, residence in the city of Valencia 10, an adjoining area 5, income 4 to 7, large family 5 or 7, single-parent family 5 or 7, disability 3 to 7; in Bachillerato the ESO average grade is added. No entrance tests and no interviews are published. Open days exist but the date is not published.

Arriving from a foreign system: the only published requirement is that a Bachillerato pupil coming from abroad must present the homologation or the conditional slip from the state education inspectorate. There is no published induction protocol and no reception class; what exists is therapeutic pedagogy, speech and language support, individual reinforcement and a guidance department.

If your child goes here

Where families live for San José de Calasanz (Escolapios)

San José de Calasanz (Escolapios) is in Valencia city. Family flats in Russafa and El Cabanyal commonly listed between €1,200 and €2,200 a month. You are in it. Metro, tram and bus across the city; most families here do not need a car.

Living in Valencia city: schools, the padrón and what it costs

Does San José de Calasanz (Escolapios) have a place in your child’s year?

Places are allocated by year group, not by school, and no website answers that. It takes calling the admissions office about that exact year and getting the answer in writing. That is The Shortlist, €989.

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