For movers & residents
English, IB and bilingual schools for relocating families in the major hubs.
American curriculum school in Linhó, Sintra, teaching ages 3 to 18 in English and offering the IB Diploma alongside the US high-school track. The obvious choice if you want your children on an American path.
Toured it ourselves, and friends have children there who are happy.
2 locations
IB World School in the Oeiras valley running all three programmes for ages 6 to 18, on a five-hectare campus with woodland and a river. States plainly that it is not academically selective.
Our own three are here, or have graduated from it. This is the one we chose.
2 locations
Long-established British international school in Carcavelos, between Lisbon and Cascais, teaching the English National Curriculum and the IB.
Toured it ourselves, and friends have children there who are happy.
2 locations
Sintra campus of the TASIS group, from pre-kindergarten to high school, taught in English with IGCSE and the IB Diploma. Around 65 nationalities on roll.
Toured it ourselves, and friends have children there who are happy.
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