Highlands School Los Fresnos

The Boadilla del Monte sibling to Highlands El Encinar, smaller and newer, with the same Regnum Christi Catholic identity and bilingual programme.

Opened in 2007 on a 9,000 square metre site in Boadilla, Los Fresnos runs from infant through Bachillerato and is part of the Regnum Christi (Red de Colegios RC) network. The bilingual Spanish-English programme leans on Cambridge resources, and pastoral care, Christian values formation, and small-group attention are the headline pitches.

Families who fit the Catholic ethos describe genuine warmth from staff and good support for children who struggle academically. A consistent strand of parent feedback flags the physical plant, with locker-room and grounds upkeep mentioned more than once, and isolated reports of bullying being handled less firmly than parents wanted. Boadilla and the wider south-west arc is the natural catchment, and most families come from that area rather than the diplomatic and corporate north.

• Highlands School Los Fresnos is a private Catholic bilingual school in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, part of the Regnum Christi / Semper Altius network. Spanish school directories rank it among the top Catholic and bilingual schools in the country.
• Parent ratings on Spanish directories cluster around 3.9 to 4.2 from a moderate review pool. The most consistent praise is the Cambridge-aligned bilingual programme, English level, and a community feel where parents and school describe themselves as one family.
• Critical reviews are detailed and recurrent. Parents flag the strong Catholic and Legionaries of Christ identity, single-sex classroom groups, expulsions of families and staff that some describe as lacking humanity, and management that critics say behaves more like a competitive business than a values-led school.
• Practical complaints include high fees, parking and traffic at drop-off and pick-up, ongoing construction at the campus, and tree clearing during expansion that drew local objections.
• Some parents who praise the school explicitly say the Catholic ethos is not intrusive in daily life; others describe it as quite radical. Fit hinges on family alignment with that ethos.