Institució La Vall

Girls-only school in Bellaterra, founded in 1972 and the female counterpart to La Farga within the Opus Dei-linked Institució Familiar d'Educació network. Around 1,490 pupils from age 3 to 18.

Single-sex from primary upwards, Christian identity, and the same tutor-and-family model that runs across the Institució group. Boys at La Farga, girls at La Vall, with a shared early years setup before primary splits the cohorts. Director Judith Monés leads the school, which sits on a green Bellaterra campus with two football pitches, a pool, a gym and multiple basketball courts.

Families consistently praise the personal attention, the structured tutor relationship, and the academic level on which children leave. The same caveat as La Farga applies: this is an Opus Dei-environment school choosing to leave concertado funding so it can preserve single-sex teaching, which means fees will rise from the modest concerted level of recent years. The right fit for families who actively want Catholic formation and single-sex education, and the wrong fit for anyone uncomfortable with either.

A girls' school in Bellaterra run by Institució Familiar d'Educació, the Opus Dei-linked network that also operates La Farga next door for boys. Families who pick La Vall tend to know exactly what they are choosing: single-sex education from primary onwards, an explicit Catholic and Opus Dei frame, close family-school contact, and the kind of pastoral attention that produces the word "home" in parent feedback more often than is usual. The current chapter is dominated by the school's exit from the Catalan concert. After a brief period of accepting mixed classes to keep public funding, La Vall and La Farga have moved to become fully private from 2026-27 to preserve single-sex teaching. The decision has split the parent body, lifted fees out of the concert range, and triggered visible transfers out in the most recent pre-enrolment round.