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La Miranda International School
Operated by Inspired Education, La Miranda runs from 9 months to 18 in Sant Just Desvern, multilingual and IB-focused. Families drawn to a polished, well-resourced setup with a tech-forward identity tend to like it here.
In brief
Operated by Inspired Education, La Miranda runs from 9 months to 18 in Sant Just Desvern, multilingual and IB-focused. Families drawn to a polished, well-resourced setup with a tech-forward identity tend to like it here.
The school traces back to 1967 and joined Inspired in 2018. Languages are central, with up to seven offered in the early years and a strong Spanish-Catalan-English-French spine through to graduation. La Miranda is one of the few Apple Distinguished Schools in Spain, which shows in classroom kit and pedagogy.
Pastoral care is a clear strength. Each child has a link teacher and the school maintains an in-house psychology team, both of which families cite when they explain why they stayed. Parent involvement is encouraged rather than ornamental.
Fees sit in the upper bracket for Barcelona private schools, in line with Inspired's positioning across Europe. Families weighing this against Oak House, BSB, or the lycée tend to choose La Miranda when they want the multilingual breadth and the day-to-day polish of a network school over a deeper Catalan-Spanish identity.
Reviews
A long-established private school in Sant Just Desvern that has been steadily repositioned as a multilingual, tech-forward campus under the Inspired Education group. Parents praise the facilities, the language reach, and a pastoral team that takes individual children seriously. The frustrations tend to cluster around communication with families, the cost of the extras, and a sense that the school sometimes runs on its own terms rather than on parents' input.
Positives
- Facilities and campus. Eleven buildings spread across roughly 13,500 square metres in Sant Just Desvern, with pool, sports hall, auditorium, science and robotics rooms. Parents consistently describe the physical setting as one of the school's strongest cards.
- Multilingual offer. Castellano, Catalan and English run through the school as vehicular languages, with French and Mandarin layered in from the early years. Families looking for a genuinely multilingual environment from infants upward tend to land here for that reason.
- Pastoral and SEN support. Parents single out the secondary and bachillerato psychology team, and describe individual children getting attention when something goes wrong. Bullying cases are described as being picked up and worked through rather than brushed aside.
- Academics and pathways. IB Middle Years and Diploma alongside the Spanish Bachillerato, with results sitting above the Catalan average and a high share of leavers placing into Catalan universities. Project-based teaching and an Apple Distinguished School badge are part of the pitch.
Considerations
- Communication with families. A recurring complaint is that the school is not always easy to engage with as a fee-paying parent. Responses to queries are described as slow or formulaic, and parents talk about limited room to influence how things are organised.
- Cost beyond tuition. Fees sit at the upper end for the area, and the extras add up. iPad rental with damage liability, catering, trips and uniform come up in parent comments as costs that catch newer families off guard.
- High-profile family culture. La Miranda has long carried a reputation as a school for well-known Catalan families, and some parents describe a sense of favouritism around those children. Others say day-to-day life feels normal and that the high-profile angle is overstated from the outside.
- Leadership transition. Debra Gregory took over as headteacher in early 2024, arriving from an Inspired school in Lima after long experience in Spain. The community is still settling under the new leadership, and parent opinion on tone and direction is not yet fully formed.
Leadership
Debra Gregory
Academic results
- PAU 2025 pass rate 100%
- PAU 2025 average 7.60/10