The best private schools in Mallorca: fees, languages, and how to choose

Choosing a school is usually the decision that fixes everything else about a move: which side of the island you live on, what your mornings look like, how much of the year's budget is already spoken for. Mallorca is unusually well served for a place its size, with a cluster of British schools, a German one, a French one, a Swedish one, and an Anglo-American school on the Rafa Nadal campus, most of them within twenty minutes of Palma.

This guide covers the nine private and international schools a newly arrived family is most likely to shortlist. For each one you get the address, the real per-child fee range, whether there's a second-child discount, and the language it teaches in, because on this island the language of instruction is the decision, not a detail. If free public school or a semi-private concertada is also on your list, read the companion Schooling in Mallorca guide first; this one is only about the fee-paying options.

A note on the numbers below: fees are the published annual tuition for 2025/26 or 2026/27, taken from each school's own tariff. Almost every school adds a one-time registration fee and a refundable deposit, and bills lunch, uniform, transport, and exam entries separately unless we say otherwise. Treat the ranges as "youngest child" to "oldest child", early years is always the cheap end, the final exam years the dear end. Confirm the exact figure for your child's year group directly with admissions before you budget.

Queen's College: British plus IB, the top of the range

Where: Carrer Saridakis 64, 07015 Palma (Son Vida). Language: English, British curriculum through IGCSE, then the IB Diploma. Fees per child, per year: roughly €7,350 for early years up to €15,465 in the senior years. Second-child discount: not published, ask admissions.

The island's most expensive school, and for many families its most desirable. Queen's runs a full British pathway that switches to the International Baccalaureate Diploma for the last two years, a combination that travels well if you might move again. Class sizes are small, the student body is an unusually even split of local and international families, and the Son Vida campus has facilities to match the fees, including a pool. The trade-off is simply the price: there is no cheaper tier to slip into, and popular year groups fill early, so apply as soon as your move is confirmed.

Bellver International College: Spain's oldest British school

Where: Carrer de Josep Costa i Ferrer 5, 07015 Palma, opposite Marivent (Cala Major side). Language: English, British National Curriculum, ages 3 to 18. Fees per child, per year: about €7,650 for the youngest classes up to €12,750 in the senior school. Second-child discount: yes, 5% off for the second and each further child.

Founded in 1950 and the longest-established British school in Spain, Bellver is the value pick among the established English-language options: a genuine British pathway at meaningfully less than Queen's or the top of Baleares International, with mostly native English-speaking teachers and small classes. The campus is more modest than the newer schools, and there are entrance evaluations from Year 4 upward. Budget for a €1,200 registration fee on top of tuition, of which €400 comes back when your child leaves. The confirmed 5% sibling discount makes it one of the friendlier options for a family moving two or three children at once.

King Richard III College: British curriculum in Calvià, most included

Where: Carrer Oratori 4, Portals Nous, 07181 Calvià. Language: English, British curriculum, with a Spanish-system option alongside it. Fees per child, per year: €7,875 for Early Years, €9,975 at Key Stage 1, €11,570 at Key Stage 2, €13,450 at Key Stage 3, and €14,880 at Key Stage 4 and Years 12 to 13. Second-child discount: yes, and it scales: 5% off the second child, 15% off overall for a family of three, 20% off overall for a family of four.

Founded in 1969 on the Calvià side, King Richard III is the school to look at if you want the fewest surprise add-ons: those fees include lunches, textbooks, and accident insurance, which are billed separately almost everywhere else. Pay the full year by mid-July and you get a further 5% off; pay in monthly instalments instead and a 5% surcharge applies. The registration fee is €1,500 with a separate €800 deposit. The catch is location: it's a real commute from central Palma, so it makes most sense if you're settling around Portals, Santa Ponsa, or the southwest coast. Its scaling sibling discount is the most generous on the island for larger families.

Baleares International College: two campuses, two price points

Where: two sites. Sant Agustí campus at Carrer de Marià Villangómez 17, 07015 Palma; Sa Porrassa campus at Carretera Cala Figuera 3A, 07181 Calvià. Language: English, British curriculum through IGCSE and A-Levels, ages 2 to 18. Fees per child, per year: Sant Agustí runs €8,371 to €10,850; Sa Porrassa runs €9,593 to €15,325, depending on year group. Second-child discount: not published, ask admissions.

Baleares gives you a choice of campus, which is genuinely useful when you haven't decided which side of the island you'll live on. The Sant Agustí campus near central Palma is one of the more affordable British options in town; the larger Sa Porrassa campus toward Magaluf runs notably higher for the same year groups, so the campus you pick materially changes the bill. Pay the full year up front by 1 August and there's a 3% discount. Expect a registration fee plus an €800 refundable deposit, with uniform and lunches billed on top.

Agora Portals International School: the island's only full IB continuum

Where: Carretera Vella Palma-Andratx s/n, 07181 Portals Nous (Calvià). Language: English-led and plurilingual, the only school in the Balearics authorised for all three IB programmes (Primary, Middle Years, and Diploma). Fees per child, per year: around €13,400 for the IB programme, with a compulsory lunch service of about €2,320 a year for Infant, Primary, and Secondary. Second-child discount: a 20% reduction on the third child's tuition; nothing published for the second, so confirm with admissions.

Part of the international Globeducate group, Agora Portals is the pick for families who specifically want the International Baccalaureate the whole way through, rather than a British curriculum that only becomes IB at sixth form. It's a large, well-resourced campus out at Portals Nous with a broad extracurricular and languages offer. Note that lunch isn't optional here, so the real annual cost is tuition plus roughly €2,320, and the published sibling discount only kicks in at the third child.

Eurocampus Deutsche Schule: German curriculum to the Abitur

Where: La Porciúncula, Avinguda Fray Joan Llabrés 1, 07600 Palma (Platja de Palma). Language: German, with Spanish taught at native level from Grade 1, English as a foreign language, and Catalan around two hours a week. Fees per child, per year: roughly €7,392 to €10,359. Second-child discount: not published, ask admissions; there is a loyalty bonus that reduces tuition from the fifth continuous year.

A recognised German Auslandsschule taking children from age 3 to 18 and leading to the Hauptschulabschluss, Realschulabschluss, or the Abitur. It's the natural home for German-speaking families, and the lowest-priced international school on the island, but it's a real commitment if neither parent speaks German, since instruction is German-medium throughout. Budget for a recurring annual enrolment fee of €750 (partly credited back) on top of tuition every year, not just at the start. Spanish is taught natively from first grade, so children still leave genuinely bilingual in Spanish.

Lycée Français International de Palma: the French track

Where: Carrer Illes Balears 142A, 07014 Palma. Language: French, following the French national curriculum, affiliated with the Mission Laïque Française. Fees per child, per year: around €7,100 to €8,020 for 2026/27. Second-child discount: not published, ask admissions (French network schools often apply family reductions, so it's worth asking directly).

For French-speaking families, or anyone wanting their child inside the French national system with a clean path back to it, the Lycée is the obvious and affordable choice: its top-end fee is below where most of the British schools start. Instruction runs from early childhood through the baccalauréat. On top of tuition there's a first-time enrolment fee of about €1,200 and a smaller re-enrolment fee of around €200 in later years. As a French-medium school it suits families who already speak French at home more than those hoping their child will pick it up from scratch.

Svenska Skolan: the Swedish school in a Palma palace

Where: Carrer Infanta 15 to 17, 07014 Palma. Language: Swedish, following the Swedish national curriculum, with daily English and Spanish from year 1. Fees per child, per year: about €8,400 to €9,000 for 2026/27. Second-child discount: not published, ask admissions.

A small school of roughly 90 pupils aged 2 to 18, housed in a historic palace in central Palma, teaching the Swedish curriculum end to end. It's a specific choice for Swedish (and broadly Nordic) families who want continuity with the system back home, or who plan to return to it. Being small and central are its two selling points: children get a lot of individual attention, and the location suits families living in the city rather than out in the resort towns. English and Spanish are daily from the first year, so pupils don't come out monolingual.

Rafa Nadal International School: English curriculum in Manacor

Where: Cales de Mallorca s/n, km 1.2, 07500 Manacor, on the Rafa Nadal Academy campus. Language: English, an Anglo-American international curriculum, ages 2 to 18. Fees per child, per year: roughly €7,100 to €8,050. Second-child discount: not published, ask admissions.

The outlier, and not only geographically. Opened in 2016 on the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar campus on the east of the island, it pairs a mainstream English-medium international curriculum with the academy's serious sports facilities, and it's one of the few options here with a boarding residence. That combination makes it a genuine possibility for sport-focused families, or those settling around Manacor and the east coast rather than Palma. Fees sit at the affordable end of the international range; the practical question is the commute, since it's a long way from the Palma and Calvià cluster where most of the other schools are.

How to actually choose

The honest shortcut: on this island the first filter is language, not price or facilities. English-medium is the crowded, competitive field (Queen's, Bellver, King Richard III, Baleares, Agora, Rafa Nadal); German, French, and Swedish families each have one strong dedicated school. Decide whether you want your child taught in your home language, in English, or fully immersed in the local system, and most of the list eliminates itself.

Then weigh three things the fee headline hides:

• What's actually included. King Richard III bundles lunches and books; Agora makes lunch compulsory on top; most others bill lunch, uniform, transport, and exams separately. Two schools with the same tuition can differ by a few thousand euros a year once the extras land.
• The upfront hit. Registration fees (€750 to €1,500) and deposits (up to €800) are due before your child starts, and the deposits are only partly refundable. Factor them into the first year, not the annual average.
• Siblings. If you're moving more than one child, the confirmed discounts matter: Bellver gives 5% from the second child, King Richard III scales up to 20% off for a family of four, Agora only discounts the third child. Everywhere else, treat a sibling reduction as something to negotiate rather than assume, and get it in writing.

Finally, timing. Unlike public and concertada schools, which run on the spring escolarització calendar, the private schools use rolling admissions, and the established names fill their popular year groups well before September. If a specific school is the plan, start the application the moment your move is confirmed, ahead of finding somewhere to live. Where you can, visit in person: fees and curricula narrow the list, but a morning on campus is what actually makes the decision.

Use the school comparison below to line up fees, languages, and verdicts side by side, then confirm the exact number for your child's year group with each admissions office. Published tariffs move every year, and the extras are where the real budget lives.