What a year actually costs
⚠️ Where these numbers come from, and what that means for you. They are taken from Tarifas y condiciones económicas curso 2026-2027, the school's own tariff document as circulated to families. Helios does not publish its fees publicly, and we have not confirmed these figures with the school ourselves. We have asked them to.
So treat this as the best available picture rather than a quotation: ask Helios for the current tariff before you commit to anything, and if what they send you differs, tell us and we will correct this page. Every other figure we publish is sourced to a school's own public page; this one is not, and it would be dishonest to present it the same way.
Here is what the tariff adds up to, which the tariff itself does not do for you.
| Stage | Tuition | Lunch | One-offs | First year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infantil, 4 and 5 | €3,250 | €1,576 | €484 | €5,310 |
| Primaria | €3,350 | €1,576 | €484 | €5,410 |
| ESO 1º–2º | €3,780 | €1,680 | €484 | €5,944 |
| ESO 3º–4º | €4,200 | €1,680 | €484 | €6,364 |
| 1º Bachillerato | €4,580 | €1,680 | €484 | €6,744 |
One-offs are registration €300, the refundable place reservation €100, and the two compulsory insurances at €84. Add €1,600 if you need the bus, and the bus is only sold with lunch.
Uniform, books, classroom materials and trips are on top of every figure in that table, and none of them is a fixed amount.
So the honest way to read Helios: a Primaria place is a €335 monthly tuition and a €5,400 first year, and the gap between those two numbers is the part families discover in October.
The three lines worth reading twice
Lunch is priced by teaching days, not by month. October costs €184 and September €131 for the same service. A family budgeting from the September receipt will be short every month with a full calendar.
The bus cannot be bought on its own. "El servicio de transporte va asociado al servicio de comedor." If you want the bus you are buying lunch too, which is another €1,576 a year.
The classroom-materials receipt carries no breakdown, and the school says so. Between €15 and €40 in each of the first two receipts, billed again in December, March and June. Their reasoning is that a fixed charge would limit what a teacher can use, which is a fair argument — but it means this line cannot be budgeted exactly, only expected.
Where the siblings discount actually lands
Helios prices a second and third child down hard, and further than most: a third child in Primaria pays €201 against €335, a 40% reduction, and their place reservation is free. The discount applies to lunch and the bus as well as to tuition.
For a family of three children this changes the arithmetic completely, and it is worth running before comparing Helios against a school that charges the same for every child.
First, the thing that is wrong almost everywhere else
Helios is private. It is not concertado.
Its own reglamento says so three times — "privado, no concertado", "sin ningún concierto ni subvención oficial" — and the Generalitat's own school registry returns PRIVADO for it. For comparison, that same registry returns PRIVADO - CONCERTADO for Novaschool, a genuinely concertado school a few streets away in the same town. Two schools in L'Eliana, one private and one publicly funded, and the names tell you the opposite of which is which.
This matters for money and for admissions. A concertado school is publicly funded and its places are allocated through the statutory round with the baremo. A private school is not, and it sets its own process. A family that believes Helios is concertado will plan the wrong admissions route and budget the wrong number.
What it costs
Helios does not publish its fees. That is not unusual here — two of the ten schools we checked do the same — and it means the only honest answer is that you have to ask.
We are not going to put a range on this page from a comparison site. The aggregators carry figures for Helios; they are not the school's figures, and a fee taken from an aggregator is exactly the kind of number that is wrong by the second year.
The languages
Teaching is in Spanish and Valencian, with English as a subject. In practice that means a child arriving without Spanish is arriving into full immersion.
For a seven-year-old that is usually the right call and it works within a year. For a fourteen-year-old it is a different decision entirely, and it is worth making it with someone who has watched a child go through it rather than on a brochure.
Who it suits
A family that has decided to stay, wants its children inside the Spanish system and fluent, and values a school small enough that the teachers know the child by name.
Who it does not
A family that may return home, or one whose child is arriving mid-secondary without Spanish.