Welcome to Kaleide International School | Child-Centered Education in Tenerife

A bilingual progressive international school where children can learn at their own pace, through their curiosity and creativity, and in contact with nature.

Meet our families and our team!

Our school building, surrounded by green spaces.

I’ve really enjoyed being here at Kaleide. I think it’s a very beautiful, wonderful school — a place where all children can have fun and live great adventures. Thank you so much. From the bottom of my heart, I’m grateful for these four years I’ve spent with you. Now I know I’m a better person than I was before.

Clara Vidal Barreto (11 years)

Kaleide hasn’t just helped me at school — it’s also helped me in life, at least that’s how I see it. I now feel like a calmer person, someone who relates better to others. But that hasn’t come with age — Kaleide gave me that, and I know it. It’s also true that Kaleide would just be one more school among the billions in the world if it weren’t for Diana, Diego, and all the facilitators who have shaped this place. Because, tell me, what other school is like this one? There are very few — very, very few. And I just wanted to thank you all for the trust you’ve placed in me.

Mario García Fernández (12 years)

2025-26 Registrations Open! Limited spaces.

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Nature-based Active Learning

Kaleide International School is a small school for children aged from 3 to 12 years, based on the principles of experiential active learning and democratic education. Our name, Kaleide, takes inspiration from the Ancient Greek words καλός (kalos), for ‟beautiful”, and εἶδος (eidos), “form, shape”, which appropriately reflect the school's aim to create a beautiful and dynamic learning environment integrating diversity, creativity and the joy of learning.

Our daily structure incorporates a balance between adult instruction and student self-direction, in order to enable children to develop a connection with their intrinsic motivation and nurture their sense of autonomy and belonging.

In addition to being a foreign school authorized by the Department of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Kaleide has been engaged in the accreditation process with NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) since April 2020. We currently hold “Candidate” status, a recognition of our efforts to create a high-quality learning environment.

The school opened in La Laguna (Tenerife) in 2021, with an initial capacity for 60 students (25 Preschool and 35 Primary students).

Kaleide International School is the result of an extensive and ongoing research involving the theory of pedagogy, developmental psychology, and learning; study visits to over thirty innovative schools in the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Spain, and the United States; and over one hundred video recorded interviews with teachers, experts, parents and students in those countries.

Our commitment is to incorporate this experience –as well as our passion for education– to a school that will not only allow children the time and space they need to develop, but will also encourage different ways of thinking about education and childhood, in the same way that a kaleidoscope composes new and changing images of reality out of multiple reflections.

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