Richmond International School

Small British curriculum school in Sant Pere de Ribes, between Sitges and Vilanova i la Geltrú, around 35 minutes south of central Barcelona. Opened 2013, NABSS member, runs the English National Curriculum from age 3 through A Levels.

Genuinely small: the size is the pitch, with low teacher-to-student ratios and a primary feel that families on the Garraf coast have leaned into rather than commuting up to BSB Castelldefels or Sitges town. A Levels were added in 2017, so the senior school is still relatively young.

Parent voice splits sharply. The positive thread is warmth and care, a strong head, happy children, and stronger Maths than UK norms. The negative thread, persistent enough to take seriously, is that management is felt to over-promise on facilities and amenities at admissions, and that teaching consistency is uneven across staff. Useful for families committed to the Garraf area who want British schooling without a long commute, with the caveat that this is a small operation and quality varies year to year.

• Reviews on third-party sites are polarised: a roughly even split of strong positives and sharp negatives.
• Positive reviewers cite small class sizes, individual attention, maths above UK level, and a caring teaching team.
• Negative reviewers focus on management rather than teaching: complaints centre on commercial focus, broken promises to prospective parents and inconsistency between teachers.
• One parent complaint alleges that the school deletes negative reviews on its own channels.
• Aggregate score on parent trackers sits in the lower-middle range, reflecting that mix.