Los Sauces School La Moraleja

The La Moraleja campus of the Los Sauces group, a Spanish bilingual private school authorised for the IB Diploma, sitting inside the Alcobendas expat belt.

Part of a small Madrid network of bilingual schools rather than a standalone international school. La Moraleja is the upmarket residential zone where many embassy and corporate-relocation families settle, so the parent body skews international even though the working language is mainly Spanish.

Long-tenure parents describe steady academic results, strong English provision with external Cambridge exams from early years, and an emphasis on values, cooperation and the KIVA anti-bullying programme. Teachers are praised for personal attention to each child. Less positive feedback tends to focus on cafeteria standards and on uneven quality across stages, with primary generally rated higher than secondary. Best fit for families wanting a Spanish-curriculum bilingual environment with the option of the IB Diploma at the end.

• Reviews are mixed. Aggregators carry around 86 parent reviews averaging, with monthly fees in the 300-700 EUR range.
• Supportive parents single out a small-school feel relative to other Moraleja options, education in values, and strong work-life support including holiday-care services.
• One parent said staff provide "a careful education and, most valued, an education in values."
• Critical commentary clusters around outdated teaching methods, low academic ambition relative to peers, and limited responsiveness when families raise difficult cases.
• Cafeteria standards are an unusually loud complaint, with parents reporting raw meat, eggshells in food and small portions.
• Bullying response is the loudest fault line. Some parents trust the school's approach; others say once a child is targeted the school does little.
• Independent forum signal beyond Spanish school aggregators is light. No on-topic Reddit thread surfaced.