Since that foundation, the school has adapted and grown to suit the needs of the Murcian, Alicante and international communities which it serves, but the central philosophy has remained the same. Our educational programme is academically rigorous and produces outstanding results at all ages. At the same time the programme develops each pupil’s sense of respect and dignity in order for every member of our community to achieve excellence within a framework which nurtures, challenges and promotes intellectual growth. Our aim is for all ELIS students to achieve more than they ever believed possible.

El Limonar International School is the original bilingual English school in our region. We know that a person’s attainment of true bilingualism requires the learning of the second language from a very young age. When children are in the early stages of language development, they do not distinguish so readily between one language and another and are aware instead of the different sounds and meanings given by the person who is producing those sounds. At El Limonar International School our students have an exceptional command of the English language because they are exposed to it throughout the day from when they first arrive aged three. We do not teach English however, we teach in English; in the classroom, in the playground and in social and cultural activities that characterise our curriculum. This means that the ELIS educational offer is just as suitable for native English speakers who want a British curriculum education, or for international students looking to learn or improve their English, Spanish or additional languages. The very fact that our students master a second language at such a young age (be it English or Spanish as the second language, as should be the case in a truly bilingual school), it actually becomes misleading to label El Limonar International School as simply providing the best bilingual education in their areas: by the time of graduation, the language acquisition skills of our students mean that they are really trilingual, having achieved as high a level of fluency in a third global language as is available in any other school in the area.

Our exceptional staff, duel certification system and teaching strategies also result in unsurpassed university entry through A-Levels and ‘Selectividad’ results. Our students gain places to study at top public and private universities in Spain, in the UK and across Europe and the wider world.

The ELIS commitment to the highest quality education also drives the constant investment into new, state-of-the-art facilities at our schools: from new Infant and sporting facilities at ELIS Villamartín, to the incredible ELIS Murcia Secondary and pre-university facility at Montevida; an ELIS Cognita Education provides what is needed for our students to excel.

 At El Limonar International School there are no ‘tricks’, the schools in Murcia and Villamartin are honest schools where we pride ourselves on delivering what we say we will. They are not average schools in any respect, they are exceptional ones. We are driven by a mission and philosophy of inclusion and inquiry that means our students relish the learning process they experience each day. An experience that opens the doors a child needs to take their place in the global markets and societies of the future.