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The Complete Family Guide-Schools & Neighbourhoods
The Complete Family Guide-Schools & Neighbourhoods
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Choosing a school and where to live in a new country is one of the most stressful parts of moving your family abroad. This guide makes it simple.
Written by Tiffanie Gray — a Canadian mum of two who moved to Málaga at 19, has lived here 26 years, raised both her boys through the Spanish school system, and now helps families relocate to the Costa del Sol every week.
This isn’t generic advice you could half-find on Google. It’s 26 years of on-the-ground experience, the honest version — written for English-speaking families who want a friend on the inside.
What’s inside:
• 38 schools across the Costa del Sol — state, concertado, private and international — each paired with an honest note on the neighbourhood around it
• 18 neighbourhoods profiled properly, from Rincón de la Victoria and Torrox to Marbella, Alhaurín and Cerrado de Calderón
• The baremo, catchment zones and empadronamiento, explained in plain English — including the mistakes that cost families their first-choice place
• Guardería 0–3 — costs, the bonificación, and when to apply
• ESO, institutos and the teenage move — the age at which this gets much harder
• Bachillerato vs FP, explained without the assumptions you brought from home
• The 2026/27 school calendar — including Semana Blanca, the local fiesta days, and the holidays nobody warns you about
• A decision framework to work out what kind of move you’re actually making before you look at a single property
Includes five printable worksheets — a school visit question sheet, a shortlist comparison scorecard, a true-cost planner, an enrolment checklist, and a glossary of the terms everyone assumes you know.
Who it’s for
English-speaking families moving to the Costa del Sol with school-age children — whether you arrive next month or next year.
Who wrote it
I came for a gap year. I stayed 26 years. I’ve raised two children through the Spanish system, and I now help other families do this properly. Everything here is verified as of August 2026 and written from the inside, not researched from abroad.
45 pages. Instant PDF download.
This guide will not tell you which school is “best.” It will tell you which questions to ask, and what each choice will actually mean for your child. That’s your differentiator, and it manages expectations before purchase.
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